Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.

Will Tudor

On the whole, when I travel to different countries, I like to find the hidden places, so I tend to avoid the cities - but in terms of the ease of getting about, finding what you need, the excitement, that undercurrent of whatever you want it to be, it's got to be London.

Billy Graham

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Emma Watson

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

Jamie Shea

The pilot released the weapon, and only after he released the weapon did the bus come on the bridge. We will continue to do everything we can to try and avoid those kinds of incidents. We can't eliminate them altogether.

David H. Murdock

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

John C. Calhoun

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.

John C. Calhoun

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.

NeNe Leakes

One thing to avoid is trendy stuff, though - you gotta go timeless. Even if you want a little luxury in your life and you want to splurge on a Gucci bag, pick a great black one you can wear all the time.

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

E. B. White

The police said the woman had been talking to my daughter, but she never actually met up with her. They have cleared this woman of everything.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Jean Chenoweth

I would say, and we have always said, that this should not be used as the only criteria to pick a hospital. But it does say which hospitals are well-aligned.

Dick Murphy

I don't think it will be that difficult to match the (10) highlighted criteria on this list. There are probably quite a few people out there who have done these things.

Leonard Hamilton

I don't have any say in the criteria that's already been determined and me making speculations right now would be just that, speculations. What we have to do is maintain hope, and hope that we've done enough during the season to go the NCAA tournament. Past that, there's not a whole lot more we can say.

Gary Bauer

For me, the criteria has to be to find that individual that has the right philosophy and the right experience to get through a confirmation process, ... There are women that fit those characterizations. There are Hispanics, African-Americans.

Sunny Thomas

We strictly abided by the selection criteria we had set and we did not want to go back on our words by diverting from it.

Alan Stern

Whether or not an object has a moon is not part of the criteria that we've considered, because so many small objects in the solar system have moons,

Jeff Long

Very few schools meet the Title IX criteria on proportionality.

Judith Hill

I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

Simon Cook

To me, the traffic studies were kind of a sham, because they never defined the criteria for the evaluation. The studies said the roads are adequate, but they don't state what would be too much traffic.

Isaac Brock

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

Anna Nicole Smith

I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

Osama Laden

The accumulated evidence to date indicates that we are not yet winning the war on terror,

Nikki Rocco

(Theater owners) want it, and they want it in as many play dates as they can get it.

Martin Evans

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

Pierce Brosnan

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

Patti Stanger

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

Patti Stanger

When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,' - I have to tell them that X won't date you unless you're this. I'm just the messenger.

Nils Frederiksen

We have a gambling statute, so the tool exists, but we haven't found to date a Pennsylvania-based operation. Our focus would be on the organizers.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.

John Sargent

Members may find themselves in a worse position if they focus only on quick solutions to their financial problems. We?re pleased to offer positive alternatives to our members that can help relieve their immediate problems and help position them for long-term success.

Lamar Alexander

will they do well enough here on Saturday that they can go back to financial supporters and say, it's a worthwhile investment.

Bob Rossiter

While we regret having to suspend the dividend program, management is focused on preserving the company's financial flexibility in a very challenging industry environment.

Bill Turner

I think this is a solid group with a solid developer. I think they have strong financial backing.

Ellen Key

Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

Brad Goreski

It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'

Elbert Hubbard

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Edgar Watson

To know when to be generous and when firm -- this is wisdom.

Anirvan Banerji

Wage growth is firm but it's not that elevated.

Peter Senge

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

David Hawkins

Who said the market was efficient? Every major firm on Wall Street has put out a study on this. I guess investors just didn't think it was real.

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

Ron Baker

We don't have a Top 100 firm yet, but there is movement.

Will Davison

That was really disappointing. I was trying to stay out of trouble and gave him room to get by me, so to be taken out like that seems so pointless. It was very frustrating as we had moved forward and I think we could have scored some good points.

Dennis Hogue

That whole region is good. They've got two key midfielders, one really strong forward and one really strong defender.

David Peterson

We have a lot of young guys and new faces, ... I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do.

Paul Edwards

We need to have some forward thought with all of this development.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

Dalai Lama

Time is always moving. The important thing is to learn from the past and then look forward to the future.

Steve Tew

We have a good relationship with the players and we look forward to talking with them again.

Terry Wallace

We wanted to have a look at him as a forward and see how he handled himself and I thought he went all right.

Paul Pierce

We've got something to look forward to next year.

Greg Erwin

We have people in place that have done the Olympic Trials before, have done big meets before,

Steve Whittington

On paper we were not better than they were. But you don't win meets on paper.

Tom Rathbun

What we want is to find a more permanent arrangement, a long-term reauthorization (of the fund) that meets the needs of a state with our mining history.

James Matthews

If they see they can't go to meets and can't compete, they're not going to come out for track.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Amanda Palmer

I feel pretty good. Three meets in a week is alot.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Ray White

I thought the team ran fantastic. We had had two meets canceled, so I was worried about how we might do. But for the first meet, we ran pretty well. We had a lot of outstanding performances.

Patricia Birch

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Christian Louboutin

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

Brian Cashman

He's got time to do what's necessary to get us where we need to be.

Jay Wright

He just did what was necessary to win the game. And having that weapon is valuable.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Rick Wagoner

We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,

Michelle Clark

We're very satisfied. We're very pleased to be able to offer this service.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Randy Tinseth

We could have as many as 200 orders in 2004. We are optimistic about the opportunities this year especially for the 7E7.

Jim Scherr

We're very pleased with where the U.S. team is and optimistic about what we can do the rest of the Games.

Gerrit Zalm

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

Giancarlo Fisichella

We are optimistic that this problem will not re-occur.

Chris Ault

We are optimistic he can pass it, but if not, we would like to put him in a JC.

Tom Hudachko

We're pretty optimistic that we can reach some sort of partnership.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Leo Veness

In life, there are those who are reaching upward, and those who are reaching outward.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jason Kenney

It's going to impinge on underlying profitability ... profitability is reaching a peak.

Mallory Factor

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

Arvind Parmar

Reaching the quarterfinals of an important tournament like this is fantastic.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Max Heindel

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Cheri Yecke

What we see from our state university system is no growth. It has remained static over time.

Pola Negri

I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.

James Meade

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

Josiah Royce

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Christopher Morley

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Ted Koppel

Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,

Markus Zusak

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

Yao Ming

It was like if I didn't keep reminding myself, I'd make mistakes.