Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Iger

Disney's commitment to diversity, including building a best-in-class supplier base, is woven into our core values and prominent in the high quality entertainment we create for millions of people worldwide. We're proud to be recognized by SCMBDC with this honor.

Kofi Annan

devoted tireless efforts to building the state and nation and, in so doing, earned the respect of the population.

Dave Brennan

Corporations held back over the past few years while profits remained strong, so they're now investing in people and building capacity for continued growth.

Jarrod Kerr

Corporate spending, particularly in mining, has replaced household spending and home building as the principal driver of growth in the economy. It will also alleviate capacity constraints in the economy.

Ken Simonson

Contractors use a lot of diesel fuel to power bulldozers, trucks, and other heavy equipment. And many building materials industries, such as copper and steel, are energy intensive.

Naomi Compton

Council erroneously introduced impact fees in lieu of building permit fees in a resolution last year, and we wanted to change that so it could be legally enforced.

John Johnson

This one tonight I am going to vote for because this is what it's intended for ... to take a building that needs a lot of work and rejuvenate it,

John Parry

We should have been building gasoline supplies in February and March but instead we were drawing them out of tanks so we can clean them for ethanol.

Susan Etheridge

We are a secure facility; you cannot get into our building unless you are buzzed in. He came in with a group that was known to have access; naturally, we are going to look at what needs to be done differently.

Jason Chaffetz

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Scott Trost

Adair is a really quality player who is tough to defend. And they have good shooters on the perimeter.

Sibel Kekilli

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

Odalis Perez

Strike one, strike two. Good location - hitting spots. If you throw strikes, guys have to swing. That's what happened.

Jim Sullivan

Strictly speaking it's not that the stock market views good news as bad, directly.

Chris Squire

Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Shane Reid

St. Paul was a good fundamental team. Every time we would get close, they would hit a three-pointer to widen their lead.

Jerry Moore

Some things got loose last year, and that's my fault. I take responsibility for that. But I feel good about these players. I know what kind of kids we've got. I know what they want to accomplish.

Paul Ross

Some people have a talent and want to strut their stuff and show how good they are.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

James Coburn

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

Mike Wallace

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Tom Izzo

There's no reason we can't get the job done. We've got enough players to get it done.

Ken Whisenhunt

There's only one job out there right now.

Tony Blair

The timescale (for withdrawal) is when the job is done,

Ron Carey

What they are doing is intimidation. It is threats. That won't get the job done. That is a mistake,

Rumi

I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes, kismet happens.

Leonard Woolf

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Joseph Epstein

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads....

Kevin James

Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.

Kendrick Lamar

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,

Les Dawson

In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

Karl Urban

Moon Bloodgood is so dedicated, and I was impressed with her dedication. She was put into some grueling situations - cold, freezing, thrown into mud puddles, cold mountains and she didn't complain once. A lot of actresses would have said, 'Ok, that's a half-hour reset for my hair and make-up' and she didn't; she stuck with it.

John Dee

Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.

Bella Thorne

I like 'As Long As You Love Me' and 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving - you just can't help it! And 'Teach Me How To Dougie' gets Zendaya and I every time.

Daniel Gilbert

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

Bobby Farrelly

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

e. e. cummings

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

e. e. cummings

Only by you my heart always moves.

E. B. White

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Duncan Fletcher

It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way.

Duncan Sheik

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

Douglas Hofstadter

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

Blaise Pascal

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Johannes Kepler

The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

James Russell Lowell

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell

The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

Albert Camus

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

Albert Camus

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

Albert Camus

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

Amanda Palmer

There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.

Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Amanda Palmer

American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

Annie Lennox

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

Annie Lennox

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

Annie Lennox

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Muhammad Ali

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

Muhammad Ali

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

Mitchell Hurwitz

People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.

Maria Bamford

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

Mark Hoppus

He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.

Mark Batterson

There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.

Marguerite Duras

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.