Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

E. B. White

Some pharmacies have not wanted to fax us a copy of the prescription. So we have to send the patient back to either the physician or the pharmacist. But a lot of people don't have cars.

John Fahey

Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn't trying to do that.

Vin Diesel

Every thing is doing my why no highway way option do you copy

K.K. Paul

We have not received a copy of the order but it is understood that the high court has called for a report on various lapses that might be there in the case. Information is being gathered and we are examining reports of investigation.

Tom Jackson

Like a perfect tennis serve, a perfect golf swing or a perfect omelet, a perfect resume takes more effort than simply copying what others do,

Ken Thompson

More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will produce as output an exact copy of its source.

Fayssal Mekdad

Frankly speaking, we would prefer to have the original copy like everybody else,

Daniel Gros

If they let France (protect its industries) then other countries could just copy and paste, and if you multiply that by the 25 countries of the E.U. it doesn't look very pretty.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Ted Hughes

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

John Bennett

If you have the time and money, a week or two of total immersion is the ideal solution.

Irving Kaufman

The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.

Myleene Klass

This is my ideal job and I can't wait to get started.

Stephane Dion

It's not an ideal situation, but the show must go on.

Lynsey Addario

I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Darin Strauss

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

Armondo Cima

The quicker we can get to the ideal that we are solid players with simple skills and we do simple things we will be successful.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Paul Decker

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Alan Bennett

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

Steve Akers

To receive this designation, a marina must meet all federal, state and local regulations related to marina management.

Azzedine Alaia

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

Bob McNair

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Clint Eastwood

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Donald Trump

While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people.

Donald Trump

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.