Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Ogden Nash

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.

Lloyd Coker

Technology at our call centers is much better suited to handle outage calls. We don't want to create more difficulties for people.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

David Soul

I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Jon Kelly

Even kids as young as nine years are learning about gambling. They may not be gambling with money, but they're learning concepts of gambling. They see it.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Juan Goytisolo

Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.

Russell Crowe

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

Richie Call

To watch 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile' should be fun. We want people to come and enjoy the show. The concept is something extraordinary. It's comical but has a very intriguing twist to it.

David Keating

We copied some of their tactics, especially the concept of bundling small contributions.

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Pearl Cleage

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Arthur Blank

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

Dennis Hastert

The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

Colin Powell

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Conor Oberst

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

Chuck Todd

As soon as a Democrat or a liberal organization opens their mouth and says "We want to see this," it's going to go over the heads. And same way on the abortion debate, if they want to make a change, it is not going to come from a Republican, it's going to have to come from a Democrat.

Simon Sinek

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

Simon Sinek

Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

Simon Sinek

All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.

Simon Sinek

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Ronda Rousey

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Jim Tracy

That was a part of the reason. There was one situation in particular that Kent picked up on. For competitive reasons, I'm not going to say what it was.

Chris LeDoux

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Jesse Ventura

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Janet Suzman

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Hanya Yanagihara

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Aristotle

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Anthony Bourdain

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.