Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Caldwell

Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

Nathan Kirsh

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Dennis Goldford

What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch?

Patrice Brisebois

As usual, we start great. We had a great start and we take the lead. After that, I don't know; we're falling asleep and not playing well. We're undisciplined and they take the momentum.

Katherine Kennedy

This is a critical government program that is in complete shambles. We are talking about simple, common- sense responsibility to shield American consumers from rising energy prices. Performance standards are the most successful tool we have to ease the burden on consumers and protect our increasingly fragile energy supply system, but the feds are asleep at the switch.

Christian Fauria

This has been great...I haven't fallen asleep once. Seriously, I've been so impressed with the organization of the program and the professors. Jeremy Siegel's insights on the stock market were amazing. This experience has helped me realize what I want to focus on after the NFL.

Avivah Litan

It's not negligence. It's just kind of being asleep at the wheel when business is running smoothly, and then you get hit.

Dr. Kryger

For example, people with heart failure develop a breathing pattern where they stop breathing (at different times) throughout the entire night. That actually wakes them up repetitively and so people with heart failure will have trouble falling asleep and they'll wake up sometimes very short of breath.

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Richard Davis

Whether we like it or not the burden is placed back on the individual investor. The current model serves those interested, savvy investors.

Tom DeLay

A country founded on freedom should not maintain a tax code that arbitrarily places an extra burden on husbands and wives,

Tony Russa

It's a special burden on the offense to do something this series.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains

Paul Leonard

A lot of this was happening in the parking lot. But it hasn't been a burden to us.

Michael Vick

They place burdens and expectations on me, ... What people don't understand is that it takes time in this game. They expect me to win a Super Bowl. They expect me to go out and throw for 4,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards every season. But it doesn't work like that.

David Freeman

They have had to carry the burden of the port's success.

Benjamin Spock

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Carolyn Wells

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlie Munger

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

Benjamin Franklin

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

Benjamin Franklin

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

Bob Ney

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Mike Albring

We started a little slow, but then we had a big third quarter. This was a big win for us. I guess we were all hopeful, but we are a little surprised (to be 6-0). We also know there's a lot of season left and we have to complete the second half.

Liane Balaban

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Kevin Connors

We want to provide as complete a solution as possible to photographers.

Andy Pettitte

What the starters have done over there, with all those complete games, it's amazing. I've pitched in so many games and I don't think I've ever had a complete game. It's going to be a great series, some great pitching, low scoring games. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Jeremy Shockey

There is no person on this team that deserves it more than Amani Toomer. He's been a complete team player and an outstanding teammate to play with. He made great plays all through the game and really won the game for us.

Brent Williams

Until the investigation is complete there will be nothing that is final at this point.

Mick Leary

Until our investigation is complete there is nothing more I can say.

Neneh Cherry

When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Ken Woods

We're getting people to be consumers of our information. We're telling them what's going to come next and rewarding them as we go on.

Rick Dudley

At a time when rights fees are escalating and sports sponsorship as a first-tier marketing strategy requires greater accountability, it's imperative for marketers to have a tool that can truly help them harness the power of sponsorship to differentiate their brands, grow sales and engage consumers in meaningful ways.

Kurt Barnard

A terrible problem for retailers is that most stores are evoking yawns from consumers, instead of excitement. Retailers just can't keep making the mistake of taking customers for granted by selling ho-hum kind of merchandise. Consumers are looking for unusual and exciting products and they're not finding them.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Lennon Parham

We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Judd Rose

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Patrick Halsted

When we go to elevated (alert status) we fortify structures deemed critical - this is one of them.

Debbie Ryan

We would pull within two or four and then we would make a critical error and it would just deflate us. That is a sign of a young, inexperienced team.

Earl Wilson

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?

Craig Albright

We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.

Bernard Malamud

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

William Shakespeare

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?

Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Bette Midler

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Lonnie Earl Johnson

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

Stone Gossard

We're going to make better and better records as we get older, especially considering this one kind of rocks harder. Why should we be rocking harder now? Isn't this when we're supposed to ease into the whole Pink Floyd groove?

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Denis Waitley

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Tom Izzo

This is a fragile time for a team.

Mike Fox

This is too important and too fragile to play games with.

Lon Anderson

This is not what we needed to start this travel day. This is a reminder of just how fragile our transportation system is.

Sam Miller

We're at a critical, fragile stage here. (If) we have another hurricane season like we've had, who knows what's going to happen?

Jim Gillette

There are a lot of fragile suppliers out there.

Edmond Pope

very weak and very fragile ... he wasn't the same person that left Pennsylvania in March.

Carol Ross

There's a fragile state (for Ole Miss) between the NCAA and the NIT, and that's been true each year. A free throw here, a rebound there ... the first two years we won those games.

Michael Douglas

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

Christopher Thornberg

Let's put it this way: We will be in a fragile economy.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Stuart Rose

This is an encouraging performance, but there remains much to be done,

Geoff Peterson

It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.

Peter Hitchens

It's a better performance from refining and marketing.

Liza Minnelli

It was done in one night. It was one performance only. That was it. That was our shot.

Steve Davies

It was a standout performance if I ever saw one.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Charles Evers

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good

Paul Davis

As someone that respected the jersey, respected the university, respected the program and did everything for it.

LaVonda Wagner

They have done everything they could to get this program started.

Mary Campbell

They had been kind of, I guess, loosely under the volunteer program of the university.

Jon Gruden

This guy's wired. This guy's infrastructure is one that allows him to play a lot. That's how he's programmed and we're going to ride him as long as we can.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Abdul Jalil

They need to protect the militants in their own fold.

Leon Russell

There is very little you can protect in a situation like this,

Richard Falkenrath

There was a lot of jockeying at the time to try and protect turf.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Bruce Schneier

Sounds like a protection racket, doesn't it? ... It is a protection racket.

Alan Rickman

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Madrigal

My primary responsibility is to be funny,

Chris Bosh

I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

Chogyam Trungpa

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

Dean Acheson

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

Dayron Robles

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Source Unknown

Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

E. M. Forster

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Samantha Mumba

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

James K. Polk

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

Kristin Hannah

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

James Rollins

The truth is often one's best shield.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

Les Dawson

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

Juliana Hatfield

How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Albert Rauch

This is going to set the standards for all the other inhaled insulins that are in development,

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Hilbert

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

David Douglas

Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Ben Stiller

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been. It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.

Armstrong Williams

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Armstrong Williams

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Lola Russell

We're very optimistic. We are monitoring it and keep up with supply issues.

Tim Ryan

We need to be able to at the very least supply our own military.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Azim Premji

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Bill Gates

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Billy Higgins

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.