Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Anika Noni Rose

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Shashi Tharoor

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

Chris Woodruff

The bull industry is becoming like the racehorse industry.

Bobbi Henson

A whole new world of applications are becoming mainstream, and people really benefit from a broadband application in conjunction with those applicants.

David Garis

Australia's economy is increasingly showing some soft edges and inflation is tame. The risks of another rate increase are becoming much less pressing.

Jill Lepore

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

Lou Gerstner

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Michel Therrien

He's a leader of that team. He's a great example for young players, with his work ethic. He makes a huge commitment to fitness. He makes a huge commitment to what it takes to become a great player.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Peter Ragone

Today he informed the mayor that he is going to take on that role. The man should be lauded for his commitment to the city.

Steve Collins

I think a lot of this is self-driven. The kids see what it takes. The kids see the commitment it takes (to be successful).

William J. Clinton

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

Carl Fletcher

The boy's only 14. He was probably scared out of his mind. He didn't want to see what was going on, ... We don't know what the conversation was about.

Richard Garnett

really did dramatically reshape the conversation about federal power.

Peter Handal

People tend to treat e-mail like conversation. They don't give it the kind of thought that something in writing should have. If you're trying to be funny and you forget to put in the little smiley face, people could take it the wrong way.

Rick Horrow

No sports entrepreneur would ever let me talk about investing in an NHL franchise for at least the last five years. Now it's taking place in conversation again, really for the first time in nearly a decade.

Pat Call

Cochise County has never had a conversation with the ACC about abating taxes. And not once has Algonquin requested that the taxes be abated. Apparently, the only people who want to see the taxes reduced are some of the commissioners on the ACC.

Spike Jonze

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

Barry Gibb

Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

Joe Sims

The thrust of our conversation was our mutual frustration with the lack of aggressiveness on the part of DOC.

David Card

The thing you can do online that you can't do in the physical world is interactivity and two-way conversation.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Robert E. Lee

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Samuel Johnson

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

W. H. Auden

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Roland Barthes

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Voltaire

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Confucius

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Robert Teeter

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Virgil

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Van Jones

Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Muriel Spark

...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...

Keith Carradine

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

Kate Chopin

She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

Martin Kippenberger

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

William J. Clinton

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

Sarah Palin

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Richard M. Nixon

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Vance Havner

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Valerie Jarrett

A new era of responsibility is here.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.