Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlize Theron

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Regina Brett

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Ed Slott

Nobody knows what future tax rates will be.

Joel Kastner

On the other hand, we can't really predict the future of these systems with much certainty.

Susan Wojcicki

I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising.

Graeme Souness

I am sorry he didn't see his long term future with us,

Tianna Madison

I am still young, in the future the sky is the only limit for me,

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Mike Greene

You look at it and then you wonder if you're just being a scapegoat. But then you just go back and re-evaluate yourself. You don't look at it like that. You just try to improve on things you did wrong.

Ben Forbes

We just had a little too much talent. They're on the young side and they played well. They will improve and get better.

Albert Lin

But they need to improve their relationship with Motorola for this product to succeed.

Gene Meyers

Nancy did well. She improved with every throw.

Bruce Campbell

I can't think of any organization where there isn't room for improvement.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Zach Galligan

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Joyce Walker

Get low and shuffle. You've got to harass her.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Kim Carnes

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Michael Wright

We want to keep prices as low as possible.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Jodi Picoult

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

For all of my life I have needed more.

Natalie Rule

It serves quite a big need to put people in the right location, people needed to rebuild.

Matt Schmelzer

A lot of wins. Every time we needed a basket, she scored a basket.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Marc LaVorgna

Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Pam Tuttle

I didn't plan to be a quilter. I just took a class, and then I was off and running.

Bob King

You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

America Ferrera

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

Chuck Norris

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Robert A. Cook

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Steve Ballmer

I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!

Stephen Harper

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Marlon Brando

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

Sherry Argov

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

Nicolas Cage

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Nicolas Cage

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Nas

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Shiv Khera

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.

Terry Pratchett

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

B.J. Upton

We haven't had a lot of time yet,