Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Ismail Kadare

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

Gail Carriger

My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

Wes Anderson

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Virginia Postrel

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Colin Angle

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

Bob Verdi

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Bel Powley

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Brandi Carlile

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

Brad Goreski

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

David Ulevitch

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

Isaac Brock

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

Carolyn Beck

We can't ignore somebody who's obviously breaking the law.

David Gallop

We can't have a situation where clubs can take a gamble breaking the rules, knowing that all they need to do is write a check to pay a fine at the end of the season. There has to be a stronger disincentive.

Raymond Bonner

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

Orlando Bloom

I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

Richard Suttmeier

We've left ourselves without support as we're breaking to new lows for the year,

Dale Decker

Use vibration with caution. If you see you're getting any breaking of rock, you've got to back off.

Shingo Takatsu

My breaking ball, I didn't have command of it. I threw a fastball and he really wasn't timid at all.

Lincoln Steffens

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Joel Rassman

The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our earnings growth projections for fiscal 2006.

David Bear

We can't guarantee delivery at that price anymore.

Suzy Menkes

With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores.

Carolyn King

We couldn't get furniture delivery until Saturday, so now no one has a place to work, ... I think that, by Wednesday, we're going to have everybody seated at a desk with a phone and ready to roll.

Per Lindberg

I think demand is very strong and I think Nokia will have a strong delivery performance in the quarter.

Giovanni Carrara

On the first or second pitch of the inning, I landed on my (left) heel instead of my toes in the delivery and my knee locked.

Robert McFarlane

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

Brandon Duckworth

I felt pretty good out there. Early on, I was a little quick with my delivery but then I got comfortable, settled in.

Shawn Estes

I feel very good about my delivery right now. I really haven't felt great all spring, but tonight is as good as I've felt.

Idina Menzel

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Bethany Hamilton

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Mike Maroth

The 21-loss thing is probably always going to be mentioned next to my name, but I'm glad the focus is off of that.

Marvin Cohen

That was the general focus of what we did. I think we were right.

Chad Kison

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Joe Johnson

We have a global Navy, and we're not going to restrict where the system will be deployed. It could be worldwide.

Tim Laatsch

We have to look at us as a global entity.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Kevin Lowery

We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.

Kathleen Blanco

For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.

John Engler

Whatever occurs, it is imperative that you do not overreact.

Chico Buarque

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Josh Fogg

That's a start, but in order to get where I need to be, I need to be a little better with the off-speed pitches. That's something that you've got to take away from this, realize that it's Spring Training and the results now are not as imperative as they are during the season. But it's time to start getting people out and try to win a job.

Alan Schroeder

For all the candidates, the main imperative is not to make a mistake, because mistakes have traditionally really resounded in the post-debate coverage.

Carol Rosenberg

This skin surveillance imperative may serve to be lifesaving in predisposed women.

Mark Ruffalo

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

Patti Reali

It's imperative that a lot of these operators get into this.

Bryn Terfel

It was imperative when I started my training to have a teacher who would really look after whatever talent I had as a youngster.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Andy Reid

His mobility has been a big factor. You've seen plays that he's made in the six games.

Eric Anderson

I think it's going to be another tool in our mobility toolbox (in the Valley).

Dan Simmons

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Jay Fiedler

There never really was much pain in it, ... It's a mobility problem more than a pain problem.

Norman Foster

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Greg Long

Programs like SPIN provide an important opportunity for students with mobility impairments to offer each other peer support. These programs can also be important vehicles for advocacy.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

George Kafkarkou

Small solution providers are just as important to CA as the big solution provider. They make the market, and we are respectful of that.

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.

Randy Carlyle

He's a skilled player; as with any skilled player, if you give him time and space, he's going to make plays.

Tony Bina

We've worked that all year. We're not a real skilled team. We need to get the hard-working goals.

Al Groh

He's a no-maintenance, no-baggage player. On top of that, he's a very skilled player.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.