Famous Quotes & Sayings

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Brendon Urie

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Glenn Dickman

We could have sold that property and made a lot of money, selling it to some distribution center that would just mean a lot of trucks going in and out.

Clyde Tombaugh

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

George Vecsey

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

Greg Sterling

Newspapers are still in a relatively strong position if they can act, but the local initiatives by the search engines are a threat. Everybody understands what's at stake and even the strategy. It's just a question of execution.

James Rhodes

We have a ride-along program where they can ride with engines and ambulances.

M. Thompson

But for us, (the response times) are good. The guys in the fire engines say the ambulances are responding faster.

Mark Hastings

We're going from being in a dug-out canoe to our first sailing ship. We're not even up to steam engines yet.

Jonathan Zittrain

Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.

Jessie Stricchiola

Search engines are no longer giving up log data.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

Jamie Shea

We know that some transporters have been heading from southern Serbia to northern Kosovo -- that's the primary equipment you would send if you were planning to withdraw.

Asif Kapadia

We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.

Tim Campbell

We were so lucky it wasn't snowing. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to get the equipment up there safely, we couldn't have done it without you.

Dale Williams

Typically if the rating goes down, then your response times go down, the equipment is better and the overall level of the suppression of fires is better.

Paul Stromberg

With the equipment we have we can start this week. But for big numbers we need larger planes, which we are trying to get now.

Paul Wright

Most of the instruction will be hands-on. We'll demonstrate how to use the equipment and they'll be able to follow.

Ed Zimmer

Most often those (air-quality improvements on the long-term list) are scheduled, anticipated replacement of equipment that is working fine now.

Tom Mitchell

Winter weather can vary greatly from year to year, and our staff and equipment have been on standby since last week.

Lance Wilson

Managed services vendors are primarily the major wireless infrastructure equipment vendors.

Ben Bostrom

The AMA has royally screwed up this time and they're going to have to fix it.

Wayne Wilkinson

That way, if for some reason the project doesn't get developed, we can go in and fix the property up.

Rory Stewart

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

John Finn

We were going to fix those things in our planning, ... We just ran out of time.

Eric Osmer

We've got one more goal. We'll focus on that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Derek Hall

We've learned what our weaknesses are, and we're going to fix them. No matter what.

Mark McKinnon

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

Steve Dunn

When the breakers go, we have to fix them immediately.

Blake Ahearn

You just can't do that. In the first half, especially, we struggled to be strong with the ball. We have to fix that.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Jessa Gamble

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

Jeff Horner

I wore it longer than I should have.

Richard Branson

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

Dan Murphy

Most companies' tendency is to overestimate the skills they need.

William Shakespeare

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Randy Carlyle

He's a skilled player; as with any skilled player, if you give him time and space, he's going to make plays.

Bob Mason

He's got the talent and skills to play at this level.

Rick Barnes

He's got such a feathery touch. He's physical, but it's his skill that really impresses you.

Warren Sapp

He has all the skills but I've been trying to get him to get better at the little things. He's like a big sponge. You have to slap him around and throw him back in the water every now and then but he'll be right back to soak up some more.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

E. F. Schumacher

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

Tsuneo Watanabe

Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Dominique Moceanu

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

Dianna Agron

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

David Shields

Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

David Minge

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.

Carl Paladino

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

Barry Ritholtz

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Pete Domenici

If we can find the offsets we'll go down to zero across-the- board,

David Allen

If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

David Shuster

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

David Miliband

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

David Korten

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

David Cross

I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.

Dave Barry

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.