Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Indra Nooyi

I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

Nicolas Sarkozy

One asks himself why a certain number of young French people are in Pakistan in religious schools, ... It's not normal that an individual who lives in our neighborhoods leaves all of a sudden for four months in Afghanistan, three months in Syria. We want to know who is going where, for how long, and when they come back.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

Tom Foley

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

Greg Stuart

As consumers continue to embrace the Internet as an integral part of their everyday lives, marketers continue to acknowledge that interactive is a crucial medium to engage their customers and create deeper brand experiences.

Bill Douglas

Augusta is the perfect market for us to deliver our decentralized brand of banking,

Randy Bennett

As media proliferates, people have a variety of media choices, and competition for traditional media is pretty intense. Newspapers are seeing a slow, gradual decline in their readership. The question is, can a free newspaper without much of a brand enter the market? I think there are a lot of challenges for that sort of business model going forward.

Ulysses Yannas

No question this is a positive. Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

Group Inc

The more direct connection with the customer, the better, ... This is our extension of the Neiman-Marcus brand into this new world.

Marshall Cohen

Companies have recognized these consumers are frustrated with how come this brand doesn't talk to me. How come they don't speak my language? Why are they only talking to the younger generation?

Dan Courtemanche

Developing a brand name and identity for a professional sports team is a pretty detailed process. It can take a little longer than you expected, especially the legal process.

Daniel Gorrell

Detroit needs to increase its competitiveness by focusing on things it does well, like Ford's F-Series pickup trucks, and they need to discard brands that have outlived their usefulness, like Buick, Mercury and perhaps Pontiac.

George Green

The secret of our success is that we are not a clone of the U.S. edition. We let the local publisher and editor interpret the brand with a local voice.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

Jim Kliesch

Any category that you're interested in, you can buy green.

Michael Birch

Any company that goes through an integration, buying a new business, there are always risks. So as soon as we see that bedded down, a lot more comfortable we'll be. We still think that mining services, companies related to resources, will do really well next year.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Diana Yates

The strong are getting stronger. There are more opportunities to buy at a cheaper price.

Terry Mackin

Advertisers can't buy enough video in today's market.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Calvin Coolidge

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

Matt Painter

There is no question we would like more than one day to prepare for Memphis. But we were stuck with the start of the Big Ten and with the Christmas holidays.

Michael Miles

We will be open late on Christmas Eve as well. And... the post office will be delivering on Christmas Day.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

Alice Cooper

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Allen Abney

The president wished them a Merry Christmas and thanked them for their service to our country.

Jim Sheehan

No one was ejected and the reason explained to me is that the officials couldn't identify exactly what happened. That to me is disappointing.

Christopher Sands

So the sense of where the problem is has shifted as people become more sophisticated about what exactly is going on,

Aaron Miller

I skated pretty good today, but my back gets tired. It's going to take some time, but I'm not exactly sure how much. Hopefully soon, if it keeps getting better like it has and I don't have any set backs.

Steve Platt

This is not exactly the type of game you want at this stage. But you can't do anything about it but play hard.

Kanye West

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

Ryan Walker

To jump out to that good start was exactly what we needed. We got stops and made shots. That lead keyed this whole game for us.

Paul Freeman

We will be in the same type of shelter, undergoing the same stresses, the same situations, lack of privacy, food that may not be exactly to your liking, but it's hot food and it's good food,

Joe Viterelli

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

Ahmed Jibril

We say it frankly that God is great and is able to exact revenge on this butcher. ... We thank God for this gift he presented to us on this new year.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Brian Greene

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Ehud Olmert

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Dirk Benedict

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

David Bowie

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Doris Lessing

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Alfred North Whitehead

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Wolfgang Schauble

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

David Fischer

We've been recommending that they go slow, be prepared to get out of the combine, be prepared to remove debris,

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.