Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Monti

A few years ago, if a European regulator had raised two eyebrows or even one, the chief executive would have backed off. The courage wasn't there. Now, in a sense, the king is naked.

Bob Letsch

(Roncalli) backed off of him and gave him that shot. A lot of times people think that we just try to get the ball inside ... but we can shoot the 3, too.

Terry Goodson

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

Casey Moore

I was surprised because he wasn't trying to block my shot. Every time I went at him, he backed off and it was kind of surprising.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

Linda Kalafatis

I was pleased with how we executed and came out ready to play after the rain delay. Kim gave us great effort on the mound and we backed her up with the hits and runs we needed.

Mark Howell

She was kind of the outspoken conscience of Philadelphia, Mississippi in the turbulent times. She never backed down from her principles.

Gary Davis

She's been the best backed today. More than anyone. If she gets up it won't be a good result for us.

Lorie Cook

She knows the tradition, the expectations for several years and she hasn't backed off from either of those. She's stepped right up. Sometimes kids aren't too confident competing. She thinks it's really fun. She's very motivated to get better. She doesn't mind hard work.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.

Demian Bichir

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Nat Cole

I've worked too long and too hard to play in some little joint for $65 a night, ... In New York, jazz fans support you. In Atlanta, unless you're booked in a club where folks can drive up to the front door, you're out of luck. If people have to look for parking, forget it.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Anne Stevens

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Bernie Williams

As long as we've got his presence there, that's the most important thing, because being the D.H. doesn't bother him,

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Rosa Gerra

An officer who speaks Spanish can't always be everywhere. It was a hit-or-miss thing. This way they know there will be someone there every Monday. It's got all the right ingredients of an excellent program. It's a win-win for both parties.

Tom Sexton

An obvious key who came to us this year tremendously more mature ? and that's a really big point for him ? is Addison Beaver. His speed is real key for us, great shot with both feet and can play any position.

William Cowper

An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

David Ditzel

And when we go to our highly integrated chip, we're going to take off another 44 percent. So we think we've got a substantial lead today, and we're going to keep that.

Douglas Johnson

We couldn't think any more highly of him.

Bob Bratkowski

Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week.

Ian Stacker

At the end of the day John was the one who started that whole incident so I can't speak more highly of him about it.

Ehud Barak

We highly respect (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad and if he needs some time before the negotiation is resumed we will respect it and we will wait. We will be there when they are ready.

Kraig Terpstra

The practices have been highly intense and the kids have been very focused. They have prepared to be here, and they want to make the most of the opportunity.

Dan Harmon

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Chuck Berry

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

Shahid Afridi

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

Mike Tyson

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

Mason Cooley

True wit has a grave intention.

Mahmoud Zahar

Negotiations is not our intention, negotiation is a method,

Mahmud Zahar

Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Deepak Chopra

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Albert Einstein

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Alfred North Whitehead

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Alfred North Whitehead

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Albert Einstein

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Deepak Chopra

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Franz Kafka

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Dolly Parton

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

Crystal Gayle

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Ricky Martin

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

T. Harv Eker

Until you show you can handle what you’ve got, you won’t get any more!

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

John Silvia

This is a surprisingly strong start of the year.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

Anderson Cooper

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.