Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Emma Goldman

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Alan Stern

The payload that we're flying is a much more advanced payload than we could have flown, for example, in the last Jupiter launch window ten years ago.

David S. Goyer

'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because 'Call Of Duty' cut its teeth on presenting 'realism,' in quotes... verisimilitude.

Victoria Strauss

There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

John C. Calhoun

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

Bill Cosby

I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.

Michael Armstrong

The acquisitions and investments we've made over the last year will transform AT&T from a company dominated by a single product line -- long-distance voice - into the leader in a new generation of advanced communications, information and video services.

David Kay

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

Daniel Leefson

The analysis they got does not include what we're getting.

Mark Donahue

The analysis says it's not happening. In Chicago, people are not being stopped based on race.

Ken Wright

The analysis said a new interchange wouldn't draw traffic away from Route 18. Many people would probably still use the Route 18 interchange even if there was a new interchange nearby.

John Logan

The analysis reveals great variation within New Orleans, but there is a general tendency for blacks and poor residents to have greater odds of being in harm's way, because they lived in less desirable, low-lying areas.

Tom DeLay

The analysis provided the commission by the department of defense about the national homeland security value of the base was seriously flawed.

Susan VanEpps

The analysis of the research showed that what distinguishes Loudoun County from competitors is the county's veritable treasure trove of diverse assets including one of the largest international airports in the world, one of country's most educated workforces, thriving rural businesses, entrepreneurialism, and a beautiful community of rural landscapes, historic towns, and well-planned suburban developments.

Richard Aboulafia

The analysis of alternatives did nothing more than endorse the very concept of the obvious.

Gary Becker

The analysis assumes that individuals maximize welfare as they conceive it, whether they be selfish, altruistic, loyal, spiteful, or masochistic. Their behavior is forward-looking, and it is also consistent over time.

Sander Levin

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Paul Harris

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

Bill Gates

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

Jon Strebe

We couldn't guard their big kid. Our inexperience in the post really hurt us, and that combined with our inability to make shots ... before you know it, we're down 20.

Vedran Pavlek

We followed the race up on the hill, we saw the course, what is necessary for the combined downhill.

Nariman Behravesh

The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices,

Sean Cotter

I think if you combined all the home runs we hit in the last seven years, I don't think it would be as many as we've hit this year.

Felix Gottwald

We're all separate -- cross-country, biathlon, Nordic combined and ski jumping.

Charli Turner

We really wanted to make them work hard and I think they got tired. They were losing the game, and with the fatigue combined it's easy to not have positive responses sometimes.

Chris Gabrieli

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Timothy Dean

Our students won't simply be placed at the back of a section. They'll be right in the middle of the action, near the front. It will give them invaluable experience.

Andrew Friedman

He's been invaluable in our discussions and our planning going forward, and the working relationship has been outstanding.

Rich Rodriguez

He understands everything we're trying to do. He's invaluable to us, more so for his leadership than anything else.

Patrick Cox

It's really an invaluable natural resource. We wanted to make sure it's in a protected state.

Daniele Audetto

They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect.

Steve Sampson

(Cronin) got invaluable playing time tonight and I thought he played very well for his debut.

Ron Rivera

It's an invaluable time for him because he can learn so much. It's a little disappointing we didn't get the job done.

Keith Reynolds

You never feel like you're really ready for this until it happens. Preparing for a big to-do like this is an invaluable experience.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

B. F. Skinner

We'll pick those off as we are able,

Bruno Cullen

We've got probably 11 forwards who can play NRL, and we're only going to pick eight.

Riley Wallace

We have to play our game. We'll pick our spots to run, but we can't run-and-gun. That's their style.

Paul Horn

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

Sarah Price

(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.

DeShaun Foster

You just pick one, ... and go at him.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Spencer Stewart

That was a totally different team than the one we saw twice this season. They got a lot better and played a tough game.

Demond Garth

That was a stage down at Wallace State, and he played unreal.

Amy Pettibone

That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. We have played with the best. I look at the state rankings, and there aren't many that we haven't played. You've got to test your players.

Janis Pardy

We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays and can predict what they are going to do next.

Dee Brown

We could have played better. We didn't play our best, but we stuck it out and we won.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Larry Gibson

We have all the resources we need at this time.

Anne Schwartz

We have tremendous resources expended to look for these boys.

Rusty Schweickart

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

Allard Baird

We do have some resources available. If one makes sense, I would.

Norm Zada

We don't have the resources to sue everybody.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Mitchell Baker

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

Brian Billick

I think Marvin would have been the smarter hire, but I'm biased,

William Dugan

We're a lot smarter now than we were in 1999 and 2000.

Kevin Heath

I'm a lot smarter than I was a year ago.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Chris McCray

We know we have to sharpen up a lot. We've got to play smarter and not make stupid passes." ()

Douglas Merrill

All of us are smarter than any of us.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,

Pierce Brosnan

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

David Bell

You always feel like you're going to win, especially after you come back and tie it like that.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Dhani Jones

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

Dhani Jones

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Dhani Jones

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

Carrie Vaughn

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

Bill Bradley

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Joanna Schultz

I think if I got on the track and I wasn't nervous, I'd be scared.

Kenneth Billingsley

This was not unexpected. Everything we track is in the red.

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Bruce Bochy

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

Chuck Palahniuk

We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.

Brooke Smith

You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don't, I really don't. It's nuts, but it's true.

Bonnie Tyler

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Bill Burr

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Russ Diamond

We have to watch out for anointed successors. That's what got us here in the first place.

Patrick Carman

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.