Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rhys Ifans

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

James Glassman

Inflation springs from how intensely resources are used. There is an enormous amount of unused capacity sitting out there, and it takes a lot of growth to absorb that.

Oscar Wilde

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Henry King

The El Paso hotel market did very good. El Paso hotels in general made money last year. I think we're going to see a decline in occupancy (this year) because we can only absorb about 200 rooms a year without decreasing occupancy, and it looks like there will be more than 200 rooms coming on line this year.

John Adair

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Jared Bernstein

These numbers reveal a labor market that's not bouncing back quickly enough to absorb new entrants along with the people laid off during the downturn.

John Novak

These suppliers who are dealing with 20% or 30% or 40% increases in raw materials, you can't expect them to absorb that pain indefinitely.

Ralph Norris

The market is not going to be able to absorb these sorts of increases. We've got to look at ways and means of reducing costs.

Melissa Eisenstat

Although Siebel is paying a hefty premium for this small company, its large market cap should enable it to absorb this acquisition with modest dilution this year and none next year.

Thomas Glynn

Kids are bombarded by images of smoking. It is hard to pin any one thing as the cause of something when we are dealing with a behavior this complex.

Karl Hill

Keeping children from smoking starts with parents and their behavior. Some parents say they disapprove of teenage smoking, but continue to smoke themselves. The evidence is clear from this study that if parents don't want their children to start smoking, it is important for them to stop or reduce their own smoking.

Gianfranco Fini

Italy had not activated behavior intended to hide anything from the ally.

Thomas R. Insel

Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

Charlie Strong

He's always harping on that; he's always talking about the behavior of the team. Now he's where he trusts this football team. The guys, they know how to act, they understand how to act. No one has gotten into any trouble, and I think they understand. Nobody wants to be the first one to get in trouble.

Kim Clark

It involved serious risk to the students, ... The behavior was intended to humiliate the victims.

John Hughs

I think when you look at the rally last week, the behavior we're seeing from the market today is pretty constructive, ... We're digesting the gains from last week, and if historical trends prove right, we should close the week a little higher. Technically and objectively, the market is doing everything it can.

Bruce Allen

We talked a lot about individual responsibility, ... We talked about being a part of a team, which he understood well. It's not the behavior you expect from a coach, whether part-time or full-time. ... I'm not going discuss publicly what we'll do as a club as far as discipline.

Rick Kaufman

He was placed on leave on allegations of inappropriate behavior with students.

Joe Roetheli

Greenies are safe if they are fed properly and chewed by the dog.

Lisa Stevens

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

Don Young

He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight.

Dr. Roberts

He is more awake, and is able to chew and swallow soft foods. But he is still not able to speak with us.

Erik Larsen

I'm an overgrown fan so it's always fun to hang out with my fellow fans and chew the fat. It's even better when there are a lot of top flight creators thrown into the mix.

Mary Roach

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Tucker Martin

It's hard to reach 7 million people. People spend millions of dollars marketing chewing gum. This is about choosing the next chief executive of Virginia. This is important.

Michael Haneke

It's because I am a coward. At school, when there were fights, I'd run away. I have always been scared of physical violence. Perhaps that's the reason. But it also angers me to see gratuitous violence, wrapped up like chewing gum to be consumed. It's irritating; it's cynical.

Najeh Davenport

It's gotten to the point where, you get chewed out by coach Sherman or by your position coach, but at the same time, you go on to the next play. You're taught to put it out of your mind and go to the next play. With this, you have to run and take the play off. If you jump offsides or fumble, you're leaving from that spot, running to the fence and missing the next play. I think it's going to help.

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

George Baker

I wouldn't say it's futile -- the opportunity is there. It's worthwhile to keep fighting to save the resources we have there.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Frank Warren

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

Jens Orback

I think it is very problematic and unfortunate that people who have been in Sweden for so long make proposals such as this that are so opposed to our intentions, when we are fighting for women's rights and the right to divorce.

Ray Rivera

He just got too comfortable in there. Any fighter knows, you see a right hand down, you throw that left hook.

James Johnson

He knew I was about to stop him. This time I will finish him early, ... I got tired of him parading around like he was the future of the division. Come Oct. 15 I will stop him in his tracks. He may never fight again.

Mike Bryan

The only thing left that we could fight was the new scoring system. We're going to give it a shot for a year. If it's not working, we're going to go back to the old system.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

John McDonnell

He didn't go home for spring break. We told him he had to get in shape and get his weight down. He's looking much better.

Chris Van Allsburg

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Maria Semple

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

Cassandra Clare

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Jeffrey Archer

Chatterers are a menace.

Tammy Loew

I think it is perfectly natural for people to want to take a break.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Tori Amos

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

Rebecca Solnit

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Ken Hitchcock

Patrick is a natural center, not a wing, and we have too many centers. That's all this is about. We had too many centers.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

O. Henry

If you're on a roll you get two or three.

Pat Gillick

In a situation, sometimes you have to roll the dice. What do we need, an outfielder or another pitcher?

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Greg Thompson

That first split hurt. He got on a roll and it was pretty much over.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Chuck Berry

Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

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.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Jennifer Walker

It takes us a while to warm up, for some reason.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

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.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Ben Kuehne

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