Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Quant

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

Ed Slott

You used to think that you couldn't afford to make a mistake, but now it's really true. You need a ruling if you make a mistake and it can be corrected, but now it's just more important that you do things right, or that your adviser does everything right.

Don Blandin

Everyone recognizes that investors need to know certain key facts and concepts, but it is important that they learn the behavioral process of investing -- such as checking the background of a stockbroker or investment adviser -- that may prove to be just as critical to their success in the long run.

Yanis Varoufakis

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

Catherine Misko

It is our hope that if we are able to negotiate a sale, we will be able to work with the new owners to hire the employees. ... We don't have anything within the company for the bakery employees to transfer to.

Buddy Valastro

My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.

John Sarbanes

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

Anna Tibaijuka

This is the first effort of its kind on behalf of Safer Cities and we are proud to work with Tim and UNFCU to continue to strengthen civic responsibility within communities, engage youth and prevent crimes.

Ken Williams

There should be no question about the respect this organization has for Frank and all that he has helped us accomplish, including a World Series championship. He is the greatest hitter in White Sox history. At the same time, it is my responsibility to make the best decisions I can on behalf of the organization. Our plan is to continue to speak with Frank and his representatives over the coming months as more information is known about his health.

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Arthur Schlesinger

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

Mike Driscoll

He submitted claims on behalf of numerous individuals,

Greg Miller

We're all just amazed, ... that the Seattle Symphony people have stepped forward on our behalf like this. But I know that people in the LPO would have done the same thing for them. It's a small world symphonies are like families, so we're all sort of related.

Keith Primeau

He brings not only that (toughness) to the game, but also to the locker room. He'll be sorely missed on their behalf ... not necessarily so much on our part.

John Kline

For the immeasurable contribution of Ronald Wilson Reagan to the office of the Presidency, and to our great nation we all owe a debt of gratitude. Thank you, Mr. President. On behalf of all the men and women who served our nation under your Presidency, and those inspired by you who serve today. I salute you, sir.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Anne Stevens

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Rosa Gerra

An officer who speaks Spanish can't always be everywhere. It was a hit-or-miss thing. This way they know there will be someone there every Monday. It's got all the right ingredients of an excellent program. It's a win-win for both parties.

Tom Sexton

An obvious key who came to us this year tremendously more mature ? and that's a really big point for him ? is Addison Beaver. His speed is real key for us, great shot with both feet and can play any position.

Ted Sarandos

The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

Michael Ching

The size of this charge reflects both much weaker demand forecasted over the next 12 months as well as the costs for certain commitments that Cisco felt obliged to fulfill.

Tracy Hickman

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

Timothy Noah

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Martin O'Malley

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

Ryan Stasik

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

Josh Parker

I hope they don't get sold for exorbitant amounts of money, so it can be a fairly diverse group of people.

George Buckley

This was a great quarter for 3M with broad-based contributions from our diverse portfolio and particularly strong results in our industrial and electronics-related businesses.

Craig Littlepage

We put together what I think is a really solid and really diverse field for this year's championship.

Ron Artest

You really feel for those families that lost everything. Hopefully we'll put on a good show for everyone at the game.

Khloe Kardashian

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

William Collins

I would rather see words out on their own, awayfrom their families and the warehouse of Rogetwandering the world where they sometimes fallin love with a completely different word.

Edward Markey

How can any of you justify no testing of these tires after two years? I want to hear you justify to American families with two kids strapped into the back seat: How can you justify that you have not done the tests?

Charlize Theron

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

Magnus Scheving

My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

David Campbell

We have over 100 teams registered. We have individual families and even some major corporations joining in the event.

Jonathan Epstein

While families wouldn't have to pay any more, the state is making up the difference. That would be a great role of state government this year.

Chris Clarke

will include various recommendations on how we can more efficiently and effectively serve an ever-growing number of families in need.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

LaDainian Tomlinson

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles R. Swindoll

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Louise Nurding

One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.

Jerry Oppenheimer

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Brian Jacques

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Brenda Strong

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Marc Otte

We are here as partners, as friends and we respect your sovereignty.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Glenn Smith

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Adam Sedgwick

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Shane Koyczan

We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone