Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Sir Stringer

Apple?s market capitalization is $50 billion based on a handful (of products). We have thousands and our market cap is less than that. Is there a message in there? Can?t we just keep it simpler?

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Emery Holmik

A realistic expectation is somewhere between five and seven medals, which would exceed our best performances in Nagano (1998) and Lake Placid (1932). It's based on how our team has performed in World Cup races.

Bill Coleman

A raise should be based on performance and market data establishing the value of your job.

Shannon Flaherty

Any new decision they make is probably based more on their need for cash than upholding their credibility.

Michelle Fischer

And the misuse rate is about 90 percent in Brevard County, based upon the child passenger safety check up events that we have held locally.

Thomas Byrne

(The six-party talks) looked like a breakthrough in September 2005, but based on the subsequent interpretation of that by the Korean Foreign Ministry, there is a lot of uncertainty as to where we are.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Gilberto Madail

Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of proof.

Rick Hendrick

The momentum and the talent we have going into this year, we have never worked this close together, I'm really excited about this year.

George Arroyo

During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.

Kirk Hinrich

Defensively, we were nowhere close to being good enough. That's what we're supposed to be?a defensive team. We just didn't have it tonight.

Kevin Donley

Defensively, they pinched inside to close off running lanes, and did a great job in coverage. Offensively, Emmert is a very gifted athlete, who gets away and makes plays when you think you've got him.

Cameron Bennerman

Coach always teaches us on defense to close out with a high hand and take away that shot. If you're on offense, if a defender doesn't do that, then you're at liberty to shoot the 3. It's just confidence.

Jason Ricci

Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, petrified of interacting. But I didn't look at Junior and R.L. as giant heroes of the blues. I looked at them as living continuations of Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker and guys like that. It was a cultural experience for me.

Simon Rattle

The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city... this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin.

David Harsanyi

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Johnathan Frakes

I didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

Ang Lee

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Mark Harrison

It pulls kids from every peer group, of every cultural background.

Marianne Cusato

Properly designed and planned, a 1,000-square-foot house can meet a family's needs perfectly, whether it is permanent or emergency housing.

Robert Baker

After you've designed and placed an organ as well as you possibly can, some well-meaning lady is able to ruin the whole thing by donating memorial carpeting.

Ed Mierzwinski

A rate is something everybody pays for their service. This is a penalty that is designed to prevent you from shopping around.

Nick Brown

These measures are not an issue of human health but are designed to prevent the spread of the virus in livestock,

John Grele

The system has been designed perhaps a little haphazardly and swiftly.

Mike Hess

The spacesuits are designed for a considerably longer period of time.

John Ashcroft

Some people fail to understand that security is designed to secure something, and what we are securing are the rights of individuals, ... Larry King Live.

Alice Fisher

The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

David Gamkrelidze

The rose revolution has evolved into a rose terror, designed to establish a dictatorship in the country.

Gary Heide

I think that was the highlight of the meet. He has missed state for three years. To get that pressure off for him is great.

Gary Hall

This can't be the highlight of our season. There's a whole lot more.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Amanda Waldenmaier

Seeing everyone else around me looking like someone killed their dog, I tried to be my own self and get some life into the game.

Richard Hatch

Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.

Joe Lhota

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

Chelsea Clinton

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

Carly Rae Jepsen

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

Linda Gholston

Sanctuary is not going to be a place of doom. It will be a place of life and living.

John Dewey

School is not preparation for life, but school is life

Tracy Morgan

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Doug Holland

People say, 'Just shut the borders,' but they don't understand what that'll do to the agriculture in this country.

Michael Boyd

People say it will be like FedEx for people,

Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Carine Roitfeld

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Kevin Davis

People say I do a lot, but I'm just doing what I enjoy.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

B. R. Hayden

We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

Bill Belichick

Every situation is independent. It takes two parties, or three to a point, to make a deal, and when that happens, we have one, and if it doesn't, we don't.

Commissioner Steele

This sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Sha Zukang

This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable,

Adam Ereli

We are watching the situation in Togo closely.

David Greenlaw

You have a much, much different situation today.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.