Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Ackerman

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Tracy Morgan

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

Talulah Riley

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

David Novak

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Chuck D.

We had some big plays. This isn't the normal Vernon team you see with the three yards and a cloud of dust ? although we had clouds of dust today.

Zedd

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

Sally Hawkins

I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

Andy Taylor

My family are all coming down to the game tomorrow and although it is very last minute they are all excited.

James Moore

Further resistance around $1 020/oz is expected in the coming sessions although a break higher would leave little in the way of chart resistance until $1 040/oz.

Anthony DiClemente

The reality is that Blockbuster has burned through $267 million in cash through the end of the second quarter and it appears that they are still burning cash to date.

Joe Rios

On one of the roadways, it appears they were exchanging gun fire and the victim suffered one round.

Billy Job

Now that he's no longer a factor, it appears that it's strictly going to be a choice between what Judge Walker has to offer and what I have to offer.

Yasuo Yabe

Buying by foreigners appears to be about half of what it was before...so at current levels the market seems to lack strength and is easily hit by profit-taking.

Peter Spina

Metal equities took a thrashing and it appears there may be more weakness in the short term here.

Ken Dunham

It actually appears to be a pretty good design.

Raymond Kelly

It appears to be a crime of passion,

Cleo Cohen

It appears this child actually ended up under the car, and the car drove over the child without actually hurting it, and without having the undercarriage of the car hit it.

Kelly McCoy

It appears the van was unable to stop due to the icy roads, tried an avoidance to the left ditch and that's when it made contact with the train and was dragged down the tracks." ()

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Rakesh Shankar

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Kojo Annan

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Hiroichi Nishi

The impact on the broader market will be short-lived.

Robert Martin

We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.

Jim Melcher

the market is, and has been, for the last five years driven by about the same 100 companies, but if you could see money moving down to the broader market, we've got some real values, a lot of good companies selling really cheap.

Dave Thomas

It was at least a conspiracy between two people. How much broader than that I do not know,

Diane Morais

Our Hispanic customers told us that they wanted lower transfer fees, money to be paid in cash over the counter in Mexico, and a broader distribution network convenient to their family and friends.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

Janet Reno

The most important thing in any investigation, particularly at this time of year, is that we just do it right -- methodically, carefully and without commenting on it,

Suzanne Fields

Style has rarely been either a characteristic or a qualification for secretaries of state. Henry Kissinger had his square, dark-rimmed glasses, and Madeleine Albright her funky hats, but these were carefully contrived affectations.

W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Max Mosley

It would be very difficult to enlarge the facilities and we would also have to look carefully at the safety issue. The number is unlikely to increase.

Tom Peters

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

J. August Richards

Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Scott Murray

This going to be a tough weekend but the players are striving to improve all the time and a win is possible. It just shows that the players want to keep on growing.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Patrick Crayton

Each week, get better, ... Each week just get improve on what I need to improve on. Each week to get wins.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Tom Daschle

We're disappointed this couldn't be better, ... this is a substantial improvement over what we started with.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Christian Slater

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Hal Borland

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

George Herbert

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

David Martin

We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't make the plays when we had our chances.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Conor McGregor

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.

Rob Lowe

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Romano Prodi

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Florence Nightingale

Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.

Christiaan Barnard

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

J. J. Abrams

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

Christina Romer

You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Garry South

The timing was not accidental. There's more to come.

Bill Swain

The timing of this weather is a little unfortunate.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Henry David Thoreau

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

Tracey Gold

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.