Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Jim Jennings

Kellogg Company is very committed to delivering shareholder value. Consequently, we are pleased to announce the repurchase of these shares from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust. Our Company's operating principles focus the entire organization on generating cash flow and creating the financial flexibility necessary for us to complete significant transactions such as this.

Jake Fisher

Just to be out there and have my name announced to the crowd is a thrill. I'll definitely be back next year and my goal is to win it.

Huseyin Sahin

It can't be known whether the disease is bird flu or not before the test result is announced in Ankara.

Ned Riley

I also feel very strongly that Procter & Gamble's strategy is not going to be linked only to Procter & Gamble, ... We will see other Dow-type companies that either have some economic sensitivity or a slowing of revenue growth start to announce restructurings.

Dobie Madison

He didn't properly announce himself. Whatever that means. Bottom line - it's his fault.

Jason Castro

He definitely announced their return to dominance. He's their guy and he showed why. We didn't play poorly, we just got beat.

Chidchai Vanasathidya

He clearly announced that he has withdrawn and will not play any significant role. He has taken leave until a new government forms.

Randy Thomasson

He'll actually become a hero to the majority of Californians when he vetoes it. The 'Terminator' should announce without delay that this bill is dead meat.

Stephen Colbert

The first time I met Jon Stewart was at the press conference that Comedy Central held to announce Jon would be the new host of 'The Daily Show,' which back then was not called 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.'

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Bruce Bochy

Khalil is a great talent with a tremendous work ethic. We'd love to see him make it through a season without any injuries. He gives us production on both sides of the ball, and he's an exciting player to watch for the fans.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Mike Tannenbaum

Kevin was a tremendous player for the Jets and we are appreciative of his contributions both on and off the field for the organization.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Larry Brown

Jamal played great, even without the (go-ahead) shot. He played hurt, he had no business being out there. He was great.

David Jacobs

Jake Jacobs has been thoroughly involved in executing Spyder's business strategy, and has been integral to the company's success. He's a leading expert on fabric technology, and has incredible industry knowledge and experience. His soul is the brand. It just so happens that he's also my son.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Sophia Amoruso

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

Jeff Fager

Katie is a world-class reporter. There aren't many people in this business who can conduct an interview as well as she can. It's no wonder Don Hewitt was chasing her for years to be on this broadcast, and it's exciting that it's finally going to happen.

George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

Bill Farish

He's doing awfully well. He's won on turf, so we think he'll like the track a lot. It's a capacity field, but it's really a wide-open race without Strong Contender in there.

Ronald Langston

Hispanics have been very dominant in their willingness to vote with their feet to move to other parts of the country. They've shown this great capacity to travel and move.

David Fyfe

Historically, spare capacity of 1 to 2 million b/d is still very low considering all the uncertainties on supply in Nigeria, Iraq, Iran and the Gulf of Mexico and it means there's not a huge margin of flexibility if anything should happen to those producers.

Herb Sendek

It is a long season, and you must have the capacity to get back up off the mat and fight another day. We certainly did not play very well, and that is obvious.

Jeffrey Joerres

It is clear that demand for their products and services has finally surpassed the capacity and productivity of the current workforce,

John Parry

What might have been lost in terms of production and refining capacity was more than made up for by the hurricanes driving oil prices up a couple dollars a barrel.

Matt Bryden

There is a genuine threat, there is no doubt the networks are still present and they retain the capacity to strike again. On the other hand, much more is known about these groups, there has been an intelligence surge in the last few years, they are kept under pressure.

Leendert Staal

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

Edgar Chen

He is one of the most critical high-level insiders that the prosecution has been able to produce.

Joseph Stiglitz

Greenspan's irresponsible support of that tax cut was critical to its passage.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Daniel Esty

Good governance emerges as a critical driver of environmental performance.

Stan Johnson

Going to referendum is a 50-50 chance, but it forces districts to be critical in communicating the need.

Tom Daschle

I think it's critical that we offer minimum wage limits to all these jobs,

Larry Coker

I think it's critical for us because he's a veteran player.

David Smith

It is a critical eight- to 10-weeks for retailing and for the producers. The retailers and PC hardware manufacturers work on razor-thin margins, so the impact there could be pretty severe.

Matt Fidler

What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.

Steven Liu

I wouldn't be surprised to hear of more acquisitions in other developed markets in the near future.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Sean Casey

There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.

Eric Benhamou

Under Bruce's leadership, 3Com developed a strategy to become a leading global provider of secure converged networking solutions for small, medium and large enterprises.

Mary Quant

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

E. Hicks

He spends 23 hours out of 24 in solitary confinement. Before he had 18 months, 24 hours every day, in solitary, and that's where he developed eye problems and got depressed.

Chris Williams

I am looking at it with the township, and we haven't developed any recommendations at present.

Perry Mulligan

IBM is sharing the procurement expertise it developed for its own internal needs.

Mark Medow

He has a very mature game. He has great hands and developed a big serve, and he knows how to win.

John Hackney

Jon Burke had a solid round. He was 3-under with six left, but made a double on a par 3, then bogeyed the tough par-3 17th to finish at even par.

Doug Chapman

What we had to do in doubles was play basic, solid tennis. The main thing with a lot of new kids is they want to hit winners or they want to push the ball. You need to be consistently firm. That?s what Eric does well, and that?s what Matt Dunne did in the second set.

Russ Tanner

He's a big strong guy. He doesn't give much ground. He has some quick moves from one side to the other. Any head-up nose usually gets a double team. It doesn't matter who the guy is. You're going to have two guys on him with the scheme.

Jeff Buttle

Going into the Lutz I realized that because of the regulations, I had to do a double or else it would not have counted.

Buddy Bell

Go figure. You hit into four double plays, that's not good.

Karen Brown

Good Cindy, that's it. Is that a single or a double pirouette?

Tyrus Thomas

Hitting the jumpers helps loosen things up. Teams are giving me that shot. It worked for me tonight. They didn't double Glen as much after I made those first two jump shots.

Cathy Nixon

I think it's huge for us to have six scoring in double figures. The more weapons we have, the better we are and it's just huge for us to have six kids scoring in double figures.

Alex Rodriguez

I think when we saw that window of opportunity on the double play, we felt we had a chance.

Richard Grasso

Whatever the competitive arguments may be for a more timely introduction of extending the trading day, the overriding interest should be the protection of the public user of the marketplace,

Louis Friedman

If you don't keep the Mars mission out front, people are going to ask, why are we returning to the moon? It's got to be because we're extending ourselves into the solar system.

Matt Siegle

The first five minutes of the first half and the first five minutes of the second half are pretty important parts of the game. We did a good job of extending the lead in the second half.

Dave Girouard

It's become a way that people have gotten more out of their searches. We're extending that to the enterprise.

Dana Gardner

At the same time, Microsoft has not done well at extending its Communications Platform, nee Greenwich, so IBM has an opening here.

Hiroyuki Nakai

The market looks likely to pause today rather than extending the past pace of its rally.

Robin Cook

There is no purpose in extending the talks any further,

Michael Gartenberg

This is a question of extending their reach.

Dominic Monaghan

Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Jack McKeon

He could throw a no-hitter any day with his stuff but you can't keep walking the leadoff guy, ... You shouldn't be throwing 100 pitches in five or six innings.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Del Schoenfish

He can only play one way and that's all out. He goes 100 percent all the time. I told him four or five times to back off a bit, but that's not his way of playing.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Stephen Koukoulas

Growth momentum means offshore investors want to put their money in Australia.

Wolfgang Clement

have reacted in an appropriate way to the state of growth with rate cuts.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Alberto Melloni

He is the most highly ranked member of the Curia that the U.S. has ever had.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

Don Flanagan

I think it's highly unlikely she'll play. We don't want to rush her back and risk aggravating the injury.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Yolanda Clark

I think at the end of the day, American screeners are the most highly trained

Richard Kite

It is highly uncharacteristic for there to be legitimate pedestrian traffic in that area.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Karl Marx

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

S. Walker

They said I have a separated joint in my left shoulder,

Tom Nutten

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces. But I kept playing on it.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

A. Hodge

Going from one shirt to the next indicates states of transition, of change, not being able to have everything at once, states of concealment.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Alan Trammell

His next start would be Friday. Right now, that's up in the air.

Ken Knutson

He's going to pitch next Tuesday in Seattle (against San Diego).

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Rob Collins

If there's a better player in Northern California, I haven't seen him.

Chuck Keller

It's not a novelty for them as much as it is in western North Dakota.

Brent Walston

Everyone here at North Johnston wishes him well at his new job.

Ben Graham

This is kind of the cornerstone of our expansion. It's the first one of its kind in North America.

John Crysler

It's been a very deliberative process and, in fact, has substantiated our solution in North Carolina.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Rick Egelton

I think the pass-through has been much quicker than it has in the past.

Stuart Schweigert

Whatever it takes, I'm not sure what it's going to take to get past this time where we start winning these games. But we've got to do it soon.

Oleg Vasiliev

We've been through so much over the past two years and we're ready now.

Rob Bledsoe

We took that route twice in the past week.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Brian Devlin

It has been a problem in the past. But we have to keep playing well and keep winning.

Stephen Tenby

I think that all of us are going to be a little leery just because of our past experience.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

Denis Pagan

I couldn't have been more pleased with the way he started, it was a terrific effort.

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Todd Abbott

If you don't win the first game, you need to come away with the split. We did that and you have to be pleased with that. That was big for us.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Ed Parkinson

I'm sure it's going to take a while; there's a lot of evidence. This is a circumstantial case, but I think that we've proven murder.

Jose Canseco

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

Tom Higgins

It's tough to win with young quarterbacks. It's proven in the CFL,

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Richard Herman

They've proven their study habits; they've proven they can accommodate to college.

Paul Woolpert

We've proven we can win on the road, now we have to prove we can win at home.

Michio Kaku

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Tim Duffy

In some of these areas, we are the only provider of coverage.

Joseph Stefanov

It has to provide a return (for the village).

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Elizabeth Langland

Their vision is going to provide a touchstone for us,

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Jack Roush

It all starts with my relationship with my sponsors,

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Katrina Kaif

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Ronald Steel

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

Roger Enrico

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

Woody Harrelson

When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.

Franco Bonacina

The satellite is up in space and transmitting signals.

Umberto Guidoni

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

David Shuster

Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community.

John Pierce

This is what we do. We put together different sciences and technologies to make things.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Hines Ward

He had a small window to get it there and he got it in that window.

Kevin Jones

He doesn't play as small as he is.

Sander Levin

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'll start with small things.

Tory Burch

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

Sarah Palin

Hope is not a strategy,

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Richard Greenfield

If there's a strategy there, I don't see it yet.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Jack Welch

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Bob Defillippo

It's part of our strategy to diversify distribution.

Nicholas Negroponte

Scale will get you strategy.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.