Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Enrique Garcia

That was a sad case. These cases are really made by people coming forward with information.

Rick Santorum

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

Matthew Quick

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Allan Urlis

Typically, when there's damage to the weatherhead and the meter box, the city inspector would need to look at it before we could reconnect. But in this circumstance, where there are so many cases like that, the city inspection is not required before we restore service.

Stacey Gabriel

Today the prices have dropped in many cases to a fraction of a penny per genotype, and we can do millions a day. This is the difference between not being able to do the studies, and getting them done rapidly and well.

James Roth

Time is of the essence in these cases in gathering and sharing information, and anything that slows that down is distinctly unhelpful.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Arsene Wenger

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Peter Kellogg

The only real blemish in the quarter has been the royalty situation, which will improve over the rest of the year,

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Jim Hofher

We need to improve on offense. We're 0 for the season right now in terms of scoring.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

Mark Morehouse

Tyler is an all-around kind of guy. This year we are just going to try and improve on what we did last year and get some kids to state.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

Gretchen Rubin

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

Janet Malcolm

Malice remains its animating impulse.

Isabel Gillies

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

Henry Grunwald

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

Anna Quindlen

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Alfre Woodard

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Twyla Tharp

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

Eleanor Catton

The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.

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.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

William McKinney

We have stalled in several different fashions. We just camouflage it a bit. A lot of times, we look like we are about to go, and we are not trying to go.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

David Stiff

Things have also been slowing down a little in Boston.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Dan Foster

They've been successful in slowing down the process.

Amy Cutts

This is a slowing down to what I think of as good, sustainable levels.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Mark Reinhardt

It's about how little he's going to show you. You're waiting for the big image, the payoff, and he's slowing you down to think about how we see.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Dan Ahrens

There's always going to be short-term fluctuations. But we think they're going to do well in all types of markets.

Abbie Cornish

To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

Edgar Mitchell

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

Kevin McCarthy

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Chen Shui-bian

I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.

Sara Gruen

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.