Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

M. Wolfe

The outstanding result achieved by MANN-FILTER for services and product quality reaffirms our strategy of offering top-quality products and providing outstanding service to our original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket customers. Our customers can be assured that they can continue to expect world-class products and services in the future.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Mike Chambers

The 2006 Olympic Winter Games have been a great success for Canada. We set an aggressive goal of a top-three finish at these Games and we will leave Turin having achieved that goal.

William Allan

The acceleration in sales growth achieved in the third quarter gives us further confidence that the company will deliver enhanced revenue growth throughout the second half of the year,

Bill Coleman

We couldn't be more pleased with the business and financial results we achieved this quarter and in fiscal 2001.

Rick Kobe

We have the same goals every year. We've never achieved them, but we want to go undefeated, we want to win a conference championship and we want to have at least a 3.0 GPA. We've got two of the three a bunch, but the undefeated one is tough to do when you have some of the schools on your schedule that we do.

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Julian Lee

The $100 barrel price is very much wishful thinking on Venezuela's part.

Edward Yardeni

We believe the equilibrium price of crude oil has risen from about $20 per barrel during the 1990s to at least $30 during the current decade. The fundamentals are solid for the energy sector. Energy represents 6 percent of the S&P 500 market cap -- in our opinion it should be double-weighted.

Gal Luft

Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

Kyle Cooper

We've lost 450,000 barrels a day of production, which is significant. Shell hasn't given us much of an idea of when they will be able to restore output. This is a pretty reasonable reaction given that we don't know how long it will be before the production is back to normal.

Charles Schumer

We have more oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve than we've ever had. It's full. And using about 30 or 40 million barrels for a few months to get the prices down will not hurt us strategically,

Rafael Ramirez

We're working to put those barrels in place in the shortest time possible

Jim Mitchel

We have all the usual events like bull riding, steer riding and barrel racing. But we also have the camp events, that are just fun, like a Wild Drag Race and Goat Dressing.

Dorothy Jones

When the barrel prices go up, the prices at the gas stations go up. And you know the fuel at the tank was not purchased at the higher price.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

Liz Nash

That was a good win. We've been working toward this. For us to be able to compete with these big public schools that train year-round ... I'm real proud of the girls.

Jim Scheer

We have an exceptional team preparing to compete in these Games. We feel that this is, without question, the most accomplished team and perhaps the strongest team we have placed on the field of play in a Winter Olympic Games.

Bobby Perry

We have a lot to lose. We're here to compete for a championship. We're not looking at the seeds. We're looking at the opportunity to move on to the next round.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. Rankings aren't what we can decide. Winning these is the only way we can impress these people. We need to win the Big East now. There is no next year. We knew we (could) compete at this level since the beginning.

Judy Shaubach

We can't hang our heads and tomorrow the sun will come up and we will still be in first place. We proved that last inning that we can compete but just need to get it going earlier.

Andrej Lemanis

We have to view it as positively as possible or we won't be in the right frame of mind to compete on the court.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't show up to play. Defensively, this was our worst outing of the year. We didn't compete at all.

Michael Wright

We have always strived for excellence with our products, so it's satisfying to be involved with an organization that rewards excellence in its industry.

Juergen Schrempp

We have what we need. The name of the game now is operational excellence. The group is structured as it will be in the long term.

Barbara Williams

We are really proud to be part of this fabulous industry and to be part of the celebration which showcases excellence in the industry.

Timothy Roemer

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that.

Martin Scorsese

He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Chanakya

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Jeff Jackson

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

C. S. Lewis

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

Cecelia Ahern

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

Wayne Thomas

That will be really special, and I thought it would be nice for our members. The music is really beautiful, and hopefully they will feel God's grace flowing through them.

Steve Hutchinson

We've gotten to where we just flow with the play. But that's going to be tested this week.

Vince Carter

We're really starting to gel, starting to move. We've got our flow going as a starting unit. It's good to see.

Bethenny Frankel

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

Richard J. Codey

Today is a great day for the state of New Jersey. We are keeping the Giants and Jets where they belong.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Barry Bonds

I feel great. I'm just doing what the Giants tell me right now. I don't want to make any predictions about the future, but I feel like I'm getting closer. The swelling is pretty stable.

Wellington Mara

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Steve McManaman

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.