Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Urman

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

Eliot Spitzer

It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.

Steven Goldstein

This is a major milestone. This is the most populous county in the southern part of the state. It shows geographic unity against homophobia and abject hatred.

Steven Camarota

Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.

Eric Massa

Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.

Thomas E. Lawrence

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Kara Walker

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Jim Boeheim

First of all, I want to start off with a profound abject apology for my language yesterday.

Atharva Veda

Water is the abject necessity for any kind of life to exist.

Craig Brown

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Robert H. Connelly

It's just been a series of political maneuvers that leave me astonished at how much power a small number of people can ply over a large area.

David Schwartz

It was fun to watch it the first time with your jaw open, because audiences were just astonished at what they were watching. But it's even more fun to look back on it now.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.

Marcus Aurelius

Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud

Gary Jacobson

Bilbray is the most prominent figure out there and so he will be everybody's target. Then, he has the distinction of being a lobbyist I would have been astonished if this was not used by his opponents.

Vladimir Putin

Well I also want to say something to that topic. I am astonished that our internal law-making is of such great interest to foreign governments.

Greg Simon

astonished that a high public official would put the federal government at the service of a massive communications company.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

David Icke

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Doug Rogers

We are probably 20 to 30 percent cheaper than the average view lot around the county. I'm sure that over the next six months there could be some price raising. Any lot that is bought right now, my guess would be that they'll gain 20 to 30 percent over the next one to three years.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

Lamont Bryant

We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Mike Miller

When it comes down to it, you can't ever not want to win. So our job right now is to win as many games as possible, and if we're in that fifth spot, that's great, and we if we're in that sixth spot that's great, too.

Steve Peterson

We're still searching for our fifth and sixth man, but we're getting closer.

Jim Grobe

We're just kicking ourselves that we don't have a fifth year for him. We couldn't do it. We had to get him on the field.

Charles McDonald

It's just one of those situations where they did what they (needed to do). It was just a matter of us settling down and keeping our composure. This is the fourth or fifth game within the last three weeks that we've played like this.

Jaret Wright

It's just the way it happened. You just do what you can being the fifth guy.

Dale Harpenau

They've got a good club. Our guys ... it's still important to them, and that's the most important thing. They got after from the fifth (inning) on. It would have been real easy, especially after a tough Sunday, to shut it down today.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Rod Butler

This is the lowest score we've shot in the three years I've been here.

Terry Matterson

It was undoubtedly the lowest point of our season so far.

Jack Vaughn

You might find it on the Web for (cheaper). You can't always be the lowest price.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Ansel Adams

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

Susan Jeffers

Security isn't having things, it's handling things.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Bob Swan

As we go into the second and third quarter ... those are traditionally slow quarters.

Richard Repetto

A strong quarter pretty much any way you slice it.

Ashley Tuiasosopo

It's the same thing every time we play. We like to think the third quarter is ours.

Bob Wilson

I told the team not to worry about Dewitt's shot. We were still up by two and we still had one more quarter to play.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Anthony Chan

It's a wake-up call. One quarter does not make a trend, but we have to be more on our guard.

Craig Barrett

As expected, second quarter revenue reflected a seasonal slowdown,

Derek Brown

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Helen McCrory

Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

Marty Schottenheimer

I should have still been able to get it done. I wasn't surprised they took me out.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Steve Meyers

You're going to get surprised as a new driver. You're going to have heart-stopping experiences.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

John Gordon

Brandon is a comedian. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on TV someday.

Alicia Silverstone

I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it.