Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

John Snow

The achievements in India are significant, but there is so much more to accomplish, ... The pace of reforms will be decided by India's economic leaders and the demands of the global economy, but I think it's important to recognize that there are costs to going too slow.

Dion Shively

We have all the fencing equipment here, so it costs nothing for people to stop in and try it out. They don't have to purchase anything, and we don't do long-term contracts, either. So it's easy for people to try it for a few weeks or months.

Joe Malugen

We have already made great progress in reducing costs and enhancing efficiency. Today's announcement will further our efforts to create value for shareholders and better position Movie Gallery for long-term success.

Stu Rodman

We know that some of our costs are driven by state and federal mandates. So to the extent that we're not receiving funding, I would think that would be a logical thing to consider.

Satyajit Ray

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Marcus Samuelsson

The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Raul Grijalva

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

Ian Mckellen

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Gallagher

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

Zadie Smith

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Walter Smith

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Bill Cosby

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.

Nancy Gibbs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Ian MacKaye

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Robin S. Sharma

I try to work out daily in the morning hours. This drives up energy levels dramatically. You'll feel more inspired. And you'll need less sleep.

Ozzie Guillen

We're up by four runs and then we're up by one run. It drives the manager crazy. Rowand had a big night. From now on somebody needs to step up and be a hero every game. Tonight it was Rowand.

Jeff Jennewein

Whittaker drives so well to the bucket, and then he can pull up and hit that jump shot. He finds a way to slash and slide in there and takes it up strong.

Dan Hill

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

Kyle Orton

Those drives are just demoralizing for a defense,

Chuck Amato

Those are such nagging things that help keep drives going. There's no excuse for that.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Carlton Hill

That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better. The key was when I left receiver and started focusing mainly at quarterback. I started picking things up real well.

Orhan Pamuk

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

Malala Yousafzai

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

Preston Early

(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.

Scott Adams

We are not thinking about two games right now. We are focusing on Cordova this week. We have to go there and that is a tough place to go. They are a vastly improved team from last season. But we won't back down from the challenge.

Adam Gilchrist

I think people questioned whether we were even interested in trying to win this, you know, maybe focusing too much on the World Cup.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm starting to get into a rhythm a little more. I'm focusing more.

Juwan Howard

We can't be focusing on who we have out there or not. We've just got to go out there and play hard and be aggressive. If we have one or two guys that are out, we've got to roll up our sleeves and go to work.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Michael Foreman

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Joe Biden

the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.

Donald Rumsfeld

insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.

Donald Rumsfeld

The insurgency could go on for any number of years,

Rick Lynch

You will see, over the next several weeks -- we're not specifying any time -- specific military operations to target the insurgency in Tal Afar,

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Gabriel Macht

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Margot Robbie

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

Zara Phillips

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

John Edwards

We have to sell that to young people. It's a massive opportunity.

Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

David Davis

He should take responsibility for what has been a massive failure.

Gail Tsukiyama

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Agatha Christie

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

George Allen

I think they will step down if they're indicted. I do think that's appropriate if they're in the midst of an indictment.

Rick Carlisle

It's been tough. We're still in the midst of the playoff picture and we'll have to win our way in. We aren't going to back our way in, that's pretty clear.

Adam Braun

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Erin Morgenstern

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

John Fernandes

Right now we are in the midst of running down leads.

George Herbert

Feares are divided in the midst.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Linda Flohr

We have a must-win on Saturday, so that is what we are going to start working on.

Scott Jones

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Olivier Martinez

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Paula Abdul

You are 16, and from start to finish, you are a star.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.