Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Ben Adams

(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, ... Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.

Lynn Jurich

With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Donald Selkin

Cyclical stocks should really not do well if the economy is going to slow, and you can see, look at the cyclical components of the Dow, a stock like International Paper, Du Pont, all at multi-year lows. I really don't see much there, I would avoid them.

Melvin T. Reid

An investor is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in business, and how to avoid them.

William Shakespeare

Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

James Thurber

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Ray Walston

I have worked with some very great directors.

Stephen Chow

I like working as a director most.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Ted Sarandos

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

Bill Daly

Brendan was fantastic throughout the process, ... He always put the game first.

Brian Alexander

We've had a fantastic run. The fundamentals are improving, but maybe not at the right level for the valuations we're seeing.

Dana Addis

We did a fantastic job. It was a really good win. We executed and did a lot of good things. Cloverleaf did well early, but then we did what we needed to do.

Vishal Wanchoo

What's fantastic about this marriage is the two product sets are incredibly complementary.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Baron Davis

The whole game was frustrating for me, ... It was an ugly game, but it was a 'W.' Guys stepped up and hit big shots. ... I tried to be a nuisance on defense. I felt like it was an opportunity to go after it (against Crawford), especially down the stretch. I knew he wasn't passing, so I took a gamble.

Bartolo Colon

This doesn't take away the pain that I felt and the sour taste in my mouth about the way the season ended, ... This is a great accomplishment, but we wanted to go a little further.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Wade Wimmer

We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.

Hoshyar Zebari

successes we are making in some parts of the country.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

O. J. Simpson

I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they don't.

Claudia Schiffer

I only want to do small parts for now.

Jane Riley

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Anthony Bourdain

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Steve Buscemi

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'