Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

James Huguet

Technology shares are among the most undervalued. Investors who are betting on a year-end rally are probably going to favor the sector.

John Snow

Teenagers benefited, minorities benefited with employment among blacks and Hispanics rising,

Jonathan Zittrain

Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access.

Mike Nichols

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

Jim Sanders

Sometimes they engage in graffiti vandalism to kind of establish their identity among their peers. They generally do it for recognition.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

John Wallach

Seeds of Peace exists in the real world. It exists among people who've been taught to hate each other, and it's finding some basis for them to coexist with one another.

John Gatti

Ms Anderson rightfully is a concerned parent. She's concerned for the safety of her children and other children at the school. This was improper conduct at the school and it's the kind of conduct that goes way beyond the bounds of decency.

Patrick Moynihan

Terry Anderson was held six years in a hole in Beirut. He tried to get Arab newspaper clippings from the U.S. government, and found they were classified. Knock it off!

Jerry Trainor

I would love to do a small indie comedy, like a Wes Anderson movie or, like, an ensemble comedy like 'The Royal Tenenbaums' or 'Little Miss Sunshine.' I like comedies like that, that have a lot of heart and are about family dynamics.

Benjamin Crump

Martin Anderson is going to tell us what happened today. We believe completely that we are going to get answers.

John Byrd

I think Mike Anderson is really going to be something special. He's got the attitude we need.

Winston Riley

We are grateful that so many people stepped forward to assist us in this quest. The staff of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art donated so much time to this project, including guiding us through the grant-making process.

Tyler, The Creator

I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

Mike Shanahan

You know what Mike Anderson is. It doesn't take a regular-season game to tell you that Mike has been playing pretty good. . . . I'm pleased with the way he's come back and rebounded after a serious injury. I like the way he handles himself.

Kurt Koeppen

While most kids had Pam Anderson posters on their walls, Nick had Pam Anderson and airplanes. It was a split loyalty.

Tessa Thompson

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

Robb Felton

As soon as we left the house, I grabbed the dogs and I got a bag of dog food and said 'we're not going anywhere without them'.

David Colburn

Did Case say anywhere that it was a close call?

Mark Martin

When you consider there were 991 teams from throughout the state, coming anywhere in the top five or ten is a great honor and we came in third. It says something about the quality of our kids.

Fadel Gheit

I guarantee $3-a- gallon gas all over the country if we have any supply disruption anywhere in the Middle East.

Rep. Bucher

If they continue to erode these parks, we all lose out. These are our elderly. These are working families who work in our restaurants and hotels. They don't have money to live anywhere else in this county.

Matt Hoult

If they are able to maintain margins at anywhere near a historical level, they are going to shoot the lights out with a cracking result.

Eugene Cernan

Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

Todd Hamilton

I didn't take it anywhere crazy out of respect for the trophy and myself. I didn't want to treat it like the Stanley Cup, which I guarantee has been in a lot of places it shouldn't have been.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Hal Stratton

We haven't had any fatalities with this particular product, ... But whenever we see broken limbs, particularly when it's in a situation where it's your bed, it's a very serious problem.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

John Perkins

No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

Mitch Albom

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

Miguel de Cervantes

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

Neil Gaiman

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Andrew Fox

The building is heated hydronically, entirely by hydro-air, ... We built the heating system around 11 primary water-to-air heat exchangers that range in capacity from 3,500 to 18,500 cfm per unit.

Tom Marsh

(Developers) are probably going to have to build part of McEwen. There may be some questions from surrounding folks about building McEwen to the interstate, but that may be a little excessive.

Mark Dewalt

A one-room country school is not just about education. It builds pride in the community.

Jeffrey Hunter

The Mountains to Sea Trail is an important link in a planned 5,000-mile trail system here in the Southeast. Participants in the volunteer vacation will help to take us one step closer to building out this great trail system for future generations.

Kathy Johnson

School can be a terrifying place, but it really is a loving place. Everyone in the building is there to help your child and you.

Peter Culshaw

Realistically, we have enough product that we could continue to build forever.

Ray Ozzie

There will be very few companies who have that scale to build that infrastructure.

James Rogers

These are all vital as the utility industry prepares to build the next generation of power plants needed by our growing economy.

Steven Levy

At this point, we don't see any connection with the other incidents, ... We are looking at all options. It could be coincidence, or it may involve friends of friends. We don't see any trends involving the same people, at this point.

Dan Donegan

We figured that since we've been gone from the road for a while, let's make it a little more intimate, do multiple nights (in some cities) and get the connection back with the fans.

Shawn Jordan

I feel like, if the crowd doesn't like it, then we haven't done our jobs. We always try to create a story and make a personal connection with the audience. We really try to make it fun and interactive.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Ben Harper

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

Ani Difranco

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

Aneurin Bevan

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Missy Peregrym

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Paulo Coelho

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Mili Avital

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mike Mills

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Patti LuPone

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

Peter Hitchens

This is a good deal, BP had a hole in its lubricants portfolio and need a quality lubricant following the Mobil venture's breakup,

Norman Schwarzkopf

There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

Ralph Acampora

It's one thing to have a 257-point up day. What you really want to see is the following day when you see the upside follow-through, and that's what we're getting, and I think it puts people at ease.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Action Bronson

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human.

Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

Mahatma Gandhi

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

James Russell Lowell

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Stephen Sondheim

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Stephen Sondheim

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Bob Dylan

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Bobby Fischer

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Criss Angel

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

Adam Savage

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Andy Cohen

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

Dorothy Malone

Television wasn't prestigious.

Chuck Palahniuk

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

Anthony Edwards

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.