Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Goldsmith

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Wen Jiabao

China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

Wesley Clark

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

Donatella Versace

You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

David Zayas

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

Noah Baumbach

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Hines Ward

That was a rocket. I made an adjustment on my route. He had to make an adjustment and somehow he got the ball to me. That was amazing.

Rich Schneider

We couldn't adjust for the offense they showed in the second half because they hadn't shown it. They did a very good job of catching the football also but we showed we could move the ball too. We needed just one more first down.

Ted LePage

We know the defense had to play hard because we were going with two different quarterbacks. We needed them to step up, and we're pleased with their effort, especially against a set we haven't seen. It was a great adjustment by our kids.

Nabil Nasr

The picture is going to change, it has to change. Definitely there are some healthy areas, but overall the trends are not good. It's time serious attention is given and not just lip service.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

Fran Dunphy

We need to keep him off the glass number one. He's stepping away from the basket and making jump shots, so we have to pay attention to that detail. When he does post up, he's got some pretty good inside moves as well.

Kwame Brown

We have watched a lot of film. When I was coming off the bench, other teams were not paying attention to me and now they are still not trying to play me. I think Kobe and Lamar are doing a great job passing the ball to me when I have a guy sealed.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

Marlon Wayans

Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

Michael Arrington

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

Patrick Ness

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

Russell Smith

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Robert Bennett

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

Ray Lovell

Most folks will stay with their relatives or friends when these things happen.

Jim Nicholson

Most folks in Skaneateles don't get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don't get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Steve Jobs

We are going to integrate OpenGL into the Mac OS,

Karl Nurse

There are a lot of comfortably integrated neighborhoods.

David Keene

We don't just look at a small piece of the SOA stack. We've integrated all these technologies to work together as part of a platform.

Melanne Verveer

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

Mitch Daniels

is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been.

Stephanie Haymore

It is movement integrated from ballet, modern and jazz.

Brian Gammage

Really there is not anything new in application terms. It is just an integrated version of what they've got already.

Jason Ellis

We're seeing this as a stepping stone to how we become an integrated operator.

Jerry Yang

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

Pieter Mulder

We are now paying the price. This should not be seen as a racial argument, but as a simple truth of management.

Joel C. Rosenberg

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Guy Pearce

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Verlene Powell

One of the big things that Boise seemed to have a problem with at this school. Was that we were paying to teach all these teachers, but they were going to other states because of better pay and what not.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Dick DeGuerin

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Zoe Sugg

I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

Ned Yost

He had enough savvy to get through it.