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.

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

E. B. White

The police said the woman had been talking to my daughter, but she never actually met up with her. They have cleared this woman of everything.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

You are going to see the IPO market underwriters really become selective in what they let out. The turbulence really could cripple the IPO market in the short-term.

Philip Hammond

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Bobby Bowers

For September, October and November, tourism to New Orleans will be crippled for sure.

Randy Newman

Jackson Browne is underrated, at this point in his career. He has written consistently well his whole career. Maybe because he is always doing things for the Crippled Squirrel Foundation, things like that.

Tracy Morgan

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

F. Sionil Jose

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

Dr. House

The Cripple Boys. We should start a band.

Bill Thompson

We made sure all those young men being crippled by enemy fire were safe. We took them home.

Mohamed ElBaradei

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Malala Yousafzai

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Dave Barry

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.

Graham Chapman

We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.

Hank Johnson

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Ryan Newman

We're not taking anything away, we're just trying to keep some vandalism-oriented people from destroying it.

Aamir Khan

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Al Williams

I have a gut feeling we are slowly, inch by inch, destroying quality education for all students.

Steve Scott

I feel disgusted that he would have anything to do with the Olympic movement after nearly destroying the Olympics.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Loesje

Will the person who stole my bike...deliver the newspapers as well tomorrow morning?

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

William Sullivan

It doesn't seem to be news-related, it seems to be more technical.

Kelli Durham

Possibly it could be copycat, because it's getting a lot of news coverage.

Stephen Hess

Polls are a reflection of the headlines. When the news is bad, the president's numbers go down, and when the news is good, they go up,

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tony Ridder

For those 12 newspapers that are being sold, the uncertainty is not over, and I regret that very much.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Paula Yates

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

Teresa Cowan

We are now the proud new owners of this property.

Gene Upshaw

I won't come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Dan Walters

We recognize that this is something that our owners want.

Bob Stevens

The owners were receptive to donating the River Queen to us if we can raise the money. If can't get pledges or make a significant impact, we'll back out.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Ned Yost

That was the plan all along. We were going to get him out of it, get him comfortable and put him back in the five.

Robin S. Sharma

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Nonie Darwish

We have to plant the tree, the carob tree.

Tom Graham

We're really going to showcase Southwest Virginia. We plan to do it up right.

Harry Conover

You can have all the plans you want, but unless you test it, you never know.

Bob King

You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed.

Harley Lee

Wind will not save the planet but it is a solution.

Tom Shea

We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Source Unknown

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Joe Sims

If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

Paul Chellgren

You want info relevant to Wednesday, where and when you are.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

Timothy Brown

We are taking this station from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Sylvester Stallone

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Walter Salles

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Casey Kasem

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

Curtis Myles

If they come to the station and try the system, I think we've got a customer.

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Afrojack

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'