Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Hamilton

Most definitions of a 100-year event were calculated before Ivan and Katrina. At this point, are the 100-year criteria good enough?

Christopher Seeger

Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 2006.

Rory Kinnear

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

Harvey Gantt

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

Cindy Hockenberry

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

Jay Cutler

I take chances (on the football field) but I think they're calculated chances. I know what I'm doing.

Woody Johnson

With the season officially over and our new head coach in place, it's time to set the team on a new course. The Jets will not be defined by the challenges we faced in a single season, but how we overcome them: by embracing change and taking calculated risks.

Eddie Perez

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

Jane Wiedlin

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

Yakov Smirnoff

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Young Jeezy

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Todd Rundgren

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Dhani Harrison

I did everything I could to not be a musician

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Chad Smith

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Atharva Veda

That which pleases His Will has come to pass; no one else can do anything.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Gary Smith

We're very pleased with what's happening, and we're proud of our people.

Steve Hogan

We're very pleased with the progress we're making, but we've still got a ways to go.

Kim Butler

We're very pleased with the participation and response. I think 2006 will see First Wednesday even more widespread throughout the city.

Jeff Moorad

We're very pleased with our relationship in Tucson,

Berry Gordy

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

Bob Dylan

I was never a topical songwriter.

Sammy Cahn

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Micky Dolenz

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

Taylor Swift

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Bernard Arnault

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Bill Bruford

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Steve Riley

We have a lot of influences, but we turn all that into an L.A. Guns' style.

Petrarch

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Petrarch

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

William Shakespeare

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Michael Vick

Wherever I go, I'll have to make some changes, ... My style is going to change.

Barry Manilow

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Greg Wise

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Steve Chizmar

Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.