Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael J. Saylor

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

Mark Helprin

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Andrew Schwartz

Whether we see it this day, this week or this month, I think the market is cheap and it will turn.

Michael Clarke

We felt in a game like tonight that if we could get the quick, cheap score that would put the pressure back on their offense to get out of mode.

Larry Smith

U.S. stocks are cheap and will make up the gap in performance with other markets around the world.

Zachary Liggett

With Nintendo content, it's going to make it hard for Microsoft, and (Nintendo) is probably going to come in at a cheaper price.

Brian Arbogast

We're investing a lot at being able to store massive amounts of storage in the cloud, as cheaply as possible. We want to give customers the choice of what they put up in the cloud and what they keep on their PC.

Ma Xiaohe

With these favorable policies, Chinese farmers are not far from enjoying a new life of tax-free farming, free education and cheap medication.

David Jones

At Clemson, you have a lot of people from New Jersey and other states come down here just because we're still cheaper. Out-of-state tuition is still cheaper here than in their home state.

Julien Pain

We want them to see that they helped the Chinese police to jail people, human beings.

Chris Christie

If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Liang Guanglie

We appreciates the Jordanian side's concern with the Chinese people.

Zhu Bangzao

Where is the responsibility? I think it's very clear. The pronouncements of the United States are unacceptable to the Chinese people.

Martin Jacques

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled.

Mark Kennedy

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

Charles Schumer

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

Charlie Munger

At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Phil Jackson

We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.

Zach Keene

We're focused, but yet we're still enjoying the moment. No matter how many times you've been there, it's still something special.

Alan Nicholl

We're really enjoying the role of the underdog.

Gareth Gates

As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!

Dayton Duncan

It's been such a nice weekend. The weather has been fantastic, the people have been great. It's been just really fun running around and enjoying Watkins Glen.

Peter Jacobsen

It's as much about us enjoying you as it is you enjoying us. It's fun for us. I love this.

Kim Wickstrom

They should be golfing and going to movies and enjoying things. But they are back to square one.

Demond Garth

They're unselfish. Everybody knows their role, and they're enjoying every part of it.

Chief Ogden

It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.

Mike Cahill

It's a farming town. ... The rich people there are farmers - like it used to be in Sonoma.

Luxon Zembe

Pre-planting prices are a production tool to influence farmers' decisions. But the government has been dithering on this. So farmers have tended to shift to uncontrolled commodities such as horticulture.

Greg Beck

There would be thousands of farmers with nowhere to take grain.

Joni Gray

That should work well for most of our farmers and ranchers,

Dave Gilmour

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money.

Bill Thomas

It seems she is receiving very favorable financial treatment for what she is now saying.

Bill Nygren

It's one of the few funds that is in such a favorable tax situation. The fund has a large realized loss and an unrealized loss.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Jack Baker

I see the flow of funds still exceptionally favorable for the stock market. 8,000 is my number. We should be there in the next week or two.

Lawrence Finn

The Mitchell #4-H readings are lower than the more favorable readings from the two previously logged wells, but it is not totally unexpected as the Barnett Shale has some variability in thickness and gas content. The Mitchell #3-H well is only half a mile away from the Mitchell #4-H well.

Jose Rizal

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

David Rudisha

I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.

Walt Czaicki

While this market is starved for good news, it is still nervous -- if we don't see favorable numbers tomorrow it could be a negative.

Ed Miller

We have a favorable outlook. We think it will serve us well.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.