Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Glenn Wilson

(Kalamazoo has) a great manager and a great staff. They're an outstanding team that just went through a Rockford club that I was very scared of.

Jose Mourinho

I always feel that with a president, an owner - it depends on the structure of the club and the country - the players generally like to see him.

Rupert Lowe

Harry said that it was now impossible for him to come back to the club and that, in his words, he had been let down.

Ralf Rangnick

We're proud that Fabian has decided to join us. There were a lot of clubs interested.

Ted Hellard

We're in the middle of the negotiating season and many clubs have already signed player contracts. It would be pretty unrealistic to tell those teams now that we will implement a new system.

John Mozeliak

I think we've identified what we're trying to accomplish. Where we are today is trying to send out feelers and get a sense for the major league's free-agent market as well as get a temperature of what all clubs are trying to do.

Graeme Souness

I am delighted with him. I think he is, and will be a terrific player for this club for a long time to come given his age.

Andy Gomarsall

I am hoping for the same here. I have a lot to prove and am still ambitious. A new club is just what I needed.

Graeme Smith

He has had a good season and his club have had a fantastic season.

Jay Eisenhofer

He's a very intelligent guy, very dedicated, very principled.

Jay Robinson

It involved a whole lot of hard work and dedication from us both.

Penelope Cruz

He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

John Bingham

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

Eric Hoffer

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory..

Eric Hoffer

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Amanda Tobin

Not only is this a savings, and a safety benefit, Alaska's dedication to this project has had an influence on the FAA.

Allan Smith

Designing for sustainability requires a dedication to evaluating a product's long-term effects and lowering the environmental impact at every stage of a product's life--from materials extraction to end-of-use.

Andrew Grove

I don't know that you can say it's over, but our industry has its ups and downs superimposed upon a steadily increasing growth curve.

Brett Gallagher

Had they won, the upside would be significantly greater than the downside we're seeing . . . .

Al Leiter

He is a guy modern players can relate to and respect because he actually played at the major-league level. He will understand the ups and downs of a major-league player and know when the time is appropriate to jump on someone and when to give a pat on the back.

Kevin Blemkin

Refineries are going to be slow to recover. I'm not too excited about the downside for prices. We still have disruptions. We won't get a real picture of the market today because people are away in the U.S.

S. Walker

In order for the program to work it has to have some teeth and that's the downside if you're not willing to make a full-blown commitment.

Ray Walker

You could trace the ups and downs in Elvis' life with his recordings.

Capt. Conway

It's been a year of ups and downs for us, but we have accomplished a lot.

Adam Vinatieri

The offense did a good job in the two-minute drill to get down there and use up all the clock. We find a way to get it done. We've sure had our ups and downs this year, but this team has a lot of heart.

Jerry Miller

It's a great day -- I'm glad to see the sun, ... The only downside is we have fewer volunteers -- people had priors plans. Right now, I have nobody to run the trolleys.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

David Poile

Hockey is the ultimate team sport. You have to have all of the pieces working together. My example is I always use is Wayne Gretzky. He would often be in front of the net and get the puck from two guys who were getting the heck pounded out of them in the corner. They were making a lot less than him. They get bloody. Gretzky puts the puck in the net and he gets the glory.

Chris Browne

I think, yes. I think they were trying to make an example out of Mr. Phillips. I think they picked the wrong guy to make an example out of, that's all.

Heber J. Grant

There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Janet Reno

I think what these mothers are doing is an example of what we must do when we see something wrong,

June Jones

He's done a nice job. He's the perfect example of someone who knows his assignments and knows what to do. He gets the most out of his abilities, and he's helped us.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

George Herman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Danny Shafer

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Robin Tunney

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

Robert Schumann

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Roseanne Barr

I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'

Roh Moo-hyun

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Yoko Ono

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

William Gilmore Simms

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Dusty Baker

We've got to make a decision, probably tonight or tomorrow. We can't go short-handed.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not do that thing with my tongue

Raymond Chandler

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Bruce Cutler

He is more upset about this than the case,

Ronald Reagan

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Samantha Bond

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

Kenny Rogers

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Leona Lewis

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Kyle Chandler

I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.

Rainbow Rowell

I don't want you to go," Sam said. She was upset. "I don't want this to end like this." "You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

Joyce Meyer

Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

Emma Roberts

I always have red nail polish on my nails, so if they ever discontinue the red polish I wear from OPI, I'd be really upset.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Samuel Beckett

The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.

W. H. Auden

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

Robert Fitzgerald

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Rudyard Kipling

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Morgan Freeman

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Kelley Armstrong

On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

Khaled Hosseini

Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

James Joyce

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.