Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Charles Schumer

Gun shows, simply put, have become a paradise for illegal firearms sales because felons frequent gun shows to avoid having to go through a background check.

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Rachel Sklar

Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

Stanley Hauerwas

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Mike Rippee

Kids can also just go on the computer and the Internet and get what they want. When I was growing up in Yerington 30 years ago, we didn't have any of those things.

James Altucher

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

John Flaherty

He's a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he's got a great combination of old-school work ethic - knowing how to put the time in - and the new generation that uses computers and video to get as much information as possible.

Ken Dunham

It is already underway and will be activated unless people get removal tools. If you have opened an e-mail and your computer froze up, you should be very concerned.

Cary Fukunaga

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

Fred Rose

Whatever they end up doing as adults, they'll have to be highly technical and computer literate.

Jon Oringer

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

Paul Duca

We're on the computer e-mailing each other about trades and stuff. There's a lot of trash talking.

Megan Smith

There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

Pat Lynch

Kids that didn't make it 20 years ago make it easily now.

Bobby Anglin

He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily eat three.

Marlon Byrd

He could easily have swung away right there and tried to get his hits. Most guys, if you're going for .400, you're swinging to get your hits.

Marlon Byrd

He could easily have swung away right there and tried to get his hits,

Tom Caudill

He's got good skills for a kids who plays inside. He could easily play as a guard. He's got to play inside because we're not very big. He's only going to get better.

Keith Marshall

It could easily get out of control. It's so easy for somebody to get trapped and disoriented.

Bill Tierney

I think the guys think of him in a very respectful way, as a guy who can very easily lead them. And they look at him as a friend.

Paul Stoddart

With me it was F3000 and Formula One. I don't really see that transition being made very easily now.

Jason DeLuca

We are fourth, fifth and sixth in the state. We easily could be one, two and three. We are not that far off. I'm sure we are all looking forward to finding out.

Mike Mueller

He's a fairly reclusive fellow, and our interview is pretty fun.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

John Nestor

I think it's fairly well known that the SEC for one is looking at Tyco, and looking at it very hard. When the SEC looks at any company, they are interested in talking to their auditors. And as part of their look they'd naturally be talking to us, and we'd be talking to them.

Jim Magagna

I think that's a fairly reasonable place to be.

Todd Spencer

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Brian Billick

I think we've done things fairly intelligently. We've rebuilt without drastically slipping back at any one point.

Bryan Piskorowski

I think a week of profit taking is fairly healthy after the kind of run we've seen.

Tony Russell

I think this morning's share price fall is all to do with Wall Street because the profit result was fairly well telegraphed and in line with expectations.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

Gordon Auchincloss

He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.

Steve Siegel

He had a habit of using the same rainbow-colored pencil.

William James

We are mere bundles of habits.

William James

New habits can be launched.

William James

Habit is the great flywheel of society.

William Frederick Book

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Walter Benjamin

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Robin Skelton

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

Tony Visconti

I am not a creature of habit.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Stephen Sondheim

I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.

Shah Rukh Khan

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

Shyam Selvadurai

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Bill Walton

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

Charles Kennedy

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Bob Greenly

And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship.

Eli Broad

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Robert J. Shiller

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

Andrew Kreisberg

I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

Will Blalock

I'd have to be not picked at all to come back. It's been a lifelong dream.

Sarah Rafferty

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Chuck D.

They fronted me in the post (in the second half) and they really weren't going to let me get the ball.

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Brooke Svendsen

We planted a post back to stop those quick attacks.

Bernard Ebbers

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Larry Kramer

The story doesn't end any more when you post it, when you put it on the TV.

Tiffany Thomas

It was tough to get in the paint. We have small post players, but they have strength. It's just her height.

Bradley Cooper

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Hal Sparks

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

Reza Aslan

Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Sandra Bullock

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Mike Woods

Inspectors are going underground not only for enforcement but in an accident-prevention role. I think you can't rely on luck. You have to think smart.

Carole Taylor

I like the idea of being self-sufficient. You didn't have to rely on the store, you had to do it all yourself.

Noah Baumbach

I rely on her. She's the first person I show any script to.

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.

Eric Hinske

I couldn't see the spin of the ball.

Ron Gardenhire

I'm kind of spinning a little bit, to tell you the truth.

Jake Gyllenhaal

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

John Murtha

You can't spin this. You've got to have a real solution, ... This is not a war of words, this is a war.

Tom Watson

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.

Lauren Oliver

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

Justin Berfield

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Robert Stone

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Winston Graham

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Joan Didion

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Lynn Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Oliver Hardy

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.

Julian Simon

Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.

Vincent Van Gogh

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

Zora Neale Hurston

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

Vladimir Nabokov

I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

Zell Miller

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

Khalil Gibran

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Helen Hunt Jackson

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Emily Dickinson

AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

John House

It was loud, and the yellow fireballs ? it just went boom, boom, boom.