Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Ellis

As we learned in Economics 101, a declining manufacturing sector is part of the normal process as an economy develops.

Gore Vidal

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Ted Hamer

The number of students drive the budget. When you start having declining enrollment, it takes a while to filter through before you can start reducing costs.

David Goss

Prices have gone up this summer, instead of declining as they typically have done during the warmer months; they are at levels twice as high as a year ago,

Ani Difranco

People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind

Anthony Chan

A declining deficit may be signaling a slight loss of economic growth momentum.

Josh Bernoff

Stores will close. It's already happening. Being a music store by itself is a declining business.

Jason Schenker

The service sector performed well, with new orders rising, prices declining and employment inching up.

Ann Turner

The shop contributed funds to our programs with varying degrees of success, until the last four years, which have seen steadily declining sales.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Charles Stanley

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Alan Watts

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

Chris Bohjalian

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

Edward Gibbon

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

David Viscott

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

David Remnick

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

David Ricardo

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.

Barry Bonds

San Francisco is my home. That's the love of my life right there. Thinking that there could be a possibility, just hypothetically, to go somewhere else and DH or something like that, I really don't want to think about that at this time right now.

Jack London

San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of thousands of refugees.

Al Donner

The San Francisco garter snake is very imperiled, and we're just making progress on getting them back.

Arthur Sterbcow

Think about it. The 'Big One' hits San Francisco tomorrow and ruins most of the housing. Oakland is going to be busy, right?

Gordon Sinclair

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Steve Frank

Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs.

Mike Scioscia

What Francisco did in 2002, ... was remarkable.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

Robert Ferguson

Absurd. The prediction of a 4-degree increase in global temperatures in the next 100 years is ridiculous, and that kind of an increase in sea level is greatly overblown.

Nancy Nolan

It's just to let people in Lexington ... know what's going on ... in the surrounding communities and what's going on with global warming.

Sam Pitroda

It is time we structure our institutions of knowledge to be a global player in the 21st century.

Steve Darendinger

For instance if a new supplier didn't have global capability, we would work with the supplier to improve its global capacity.

Jim McMahon

It's too late. It's a global ecology. There will always be different species invading. We're really past the point of being able to do anything about it.

Albert Pang

It's the price you have to pay to live in a global village. You have to share the rewards.

Kenneth Rogoff

this means that 2005 is only going to be a very good year for global growth, rather than the spectacular one it might have been but for oil prices.

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Ryan Jacob

Three years ago, nobody took the Internet seriously. We're in it for the long term.

Peter Doyle

As more people get on the Internet and they get more savvy and learn how to use it, they'll just go straight to the brands,

Parry Aftab

A lot of teens have no idea that what they're posting may have ramifications later on in life. If it's on the Internet for one second, it's on the Internet forever.

Tom Austin

A lot of vendors are just using the Internet standard SMTP as opposed to MAPI.

Dalton Chandler

This has been a little unusual in that Internet stocks have been selling off on a steady basis. Usually, you see the sector down 20 percent one day then up 40 percent the next.

Robert Robbins

It's obviously a play on telecommunications, long-distance (and) Internet-related stocks, and it's doing a lot better than some of the Internet stocks that have softened recently.

Erkki Liikanen

The year 2000 was the year of real breakthrough of Internet in Europe.

David Perry

There will be a new Internet with a new TCP/IP . All of it will have to be rewritten with security in mind.

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Cher Lloyd

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Bob Geldof

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Luis Suarez

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

Brad Wilkerson

He can hit. It's not like you're sending an out up there every time.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Alan Cooper

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Alaina Huffman

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Chip Kidd

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

David Hockney

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Ben Whishaw

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.