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 Friedman

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

Dick Colliver

The American consumer is rediscovering cars and the timing for the all-new 2006 Civic couldn't be better.

Dale Jarrett

We have a lot of work to do. We just can't find anything that helps these cars in the front. Elliott (Sadler, his teammate) and I have been having the same problems each week. We really have our work cut out for us.

Paul Tracy

We just didn't have the speed the Newman-Haas cars have,

Edmund King

We have the longest commute in Europe. Even if our commuting time doubled, most of us would rather sit in their cars twice as long rather than change jobs, move house or change their work base.

Paul Stoddart

We've got the cars we ran in Melbourne last year, we've got the team and we've got the facility.

Lindsey Johnson

We've got quite a few cars that need drivers.

Jim Hunter

We have to make sure that whatever we do to the cars that it is scientific and not shade tree. We have thought about this before I think we will wrench up the research and get a lot more input but I don't think it will happen before the Daytona 500.

Dave Munoz

Usually when they do something like this, there will be just a few cars out there. On Sunday, every race car there was on the track. He sure will be missed.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Brendon Urie

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Glenn Dickman

We could have sold that property and made a lot of money, selling it to some distribution center that would just mean a lot of trucks going in and out.

John Taylor

(The PC) is definitely suffering, ... You've got to realize that the performance difference between a high-end PC and a console has really narrowed ... The sweet spot of the markets, in terms of price performance, has shifted.

Brian O'Rourke

Microsoft is the only console maker so far to launch a paid subscription service.

Jim Babb

When the consoles come in, we'll put them out.

PJ McNealy

It comes down to platform 'excellence'. What I mean is when Spider-Man (the game) launches on all three consoles on the same day, that it looks better or plays better on one of them than it does on the others.

PJ McNealy

We surveyed 125 retailers late last week, and 21 percent had at least one Xbox 360 Core ($299 version) console in stock. Most also reported receiving shipments last week and are now seeing a relatively steady flow after stock-outs abounded for most of December and January.

Christian Niccum

He deserves it. He has trained really hard. He's been in the sport a long time and I think it's his time. I hope so. I don't want to console him for losing, I want to be there right next to him when he wins.

Robbie Bach

The point here is about choice. In the past, game consoles didn't offer much choice. You got what they said you got.

Robbie Bach

We still think in a way the console isn't the way to make money.

Frank Cooper

With thousands of people pre-registered for this Mountain Dew sweepstakes, we have seen great excitement surrounding the promotion. The Xbox 360 has the potential of not only transforming the gaming experience, but the entire entertainment experience, which is why this next-generation console is an incredible prize for our consumers.

Paulo Costanzo

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.

Karen Traviss

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

Skrillex

Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

Jack Collins

I think the small crossover segment will grow. It is not a fad. It will be sustaining.

Matthew Morrison

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

Ken Dunham

If someone starts capitalizing on the crossover worm, and we start to see increased activity, then we can talk about a global threat. It's a little premature at this time.

Timothy Simons

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

Christine Lahti

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Jeff Zucker

Her crossover appeal, marquee value and winning personality make her a natural to star in her own NBC series.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Donatella Versace

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

David Carson

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

David H. Murdock

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

Zadie Smith

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

Ellen Key

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Elizabeth Hill

The overall plan moves the state in the wrong direction in terms of reaching its longer-term goal of getting its fiscal house in order.

Niall Horan

You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

Nicolas Roeg

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Steven Goldstein

Today's verdict is one step in that direction.

Sanjay Gupta

You are actually seeing some motivations and movement in Iowa in the right direction. That needs to be a national priority.

Joe Kuhn

We have to keep things going in the right direction now. I like how we are playing. The guys are going at it very hard. I like how we are playing.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

Brandon Orr

We have a lot of rough edges still. Practice will make us better.

Joe Glenn

We've got some guys who are 6-foot-3, 6-4 and between 225 and 240 pounds that are athletes. You can already feel it, and they're going to make plays. I was happy with the edge pressure that we got.

Stephen Kane

Vulcan, for the Greek god of fire, really didn't fit something at the very edge of the solar system.

Steve Kleynhans

Microsoft will smooth over the rough edges there with lots of little offers like this.

Stephen Dennis

I think Michigan State kind of put a little edge on us.

Mo Rocca

I think I've always sort of been conflicted and on the edge of something. I don't think I could do what I do if I wasn't on the edge.

Bill Cowher

I thought Joey's (forced) fumble was huge. Joey's just an inspirational leader for us back there. He did a great job of setting the edges (Sunday).

John Lange

We gave up some points on the edge where they just kept wrestling. We just have to get it in our guy's heads that it's necessary to wrestle for seven minutes and to wrestle until the whistle.

Clyde Tombaugh

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

Ranbir Kapoor

Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

Bill Yearwood

We know that the engine had been overhauled recently and installed just late November.

Byron Wood

We have been working with methane and talking about methane for 40 years. There has never been an engine produced that runs on methane.

Jim Schuster

We need to reach the future engineers and scientists in our community.

Keion Carpenter

We knows who makes that engine go. It's No. 5. It doesn't matter who he's throwing to.

Reggie Brown

We're not totally clueless. We've seen this train coming. We've tried every alternative and put every engine on the track, but none of them run.

George Vecsey

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

Greg Sterling

Newspapers are still in a relatively strong position if they can act, but the local initiatives by the search engines are a threat. Everybody understands what's at stake and even the strategy. It's just a question of execution.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Fred Zimmerman

I think it will take about 15,000 ordinary jobs to make up for the lost Ford jobs.

Buzz Hargrove

We had to negotiate solutions to some very tough problems with Ford in this bargaining,

Chris Williams

We're not talking about your family's Ford Taurus going down the road,

Charles Pittman

I looked out the window and saw a flatbed tow truck near our Ford Escort. I went outside and asked, 'What are you doing?,' and was told that they were towing my car.

Rick Schmidt

If it's made by Ford or powered by Ford it's allowed.

Arizona Muse

Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.

Mike Chung

With the Japanese carmakers having so much momentum, it may be hard for GM and Ford to regain their growth.

Tift Merritt

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Dwayne Johnson

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

George Shaheen

Most importantly, they are happy that Siebel CRM will be the cornerstone of Oracle's Project Fusion CRM strategy.

Vince Paul

There are a lot of different types of people who each have their own rites and rituals. The show is actually quite a fusion of all of those different styles.

Taylor Wilson

I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

John Wookey

There's a path to Fusion applications. But you need to take that step.

David R. Brower

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

Josh Greenbaum

For Phillips to say they are halfway to Fusion is over the top.

Jeremy Rifkin

The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

William Stephens

That's just a sound bite. The fusion ticket is working very well.

Al Jarreau

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

Bill Vaughan

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

Athar Khan

We have truly put the magnifying glass to everything we do as a company.

Rob Wostratzky

We were happy to score 64 points. R-B was hot from the outside in the first half and the probably doubled us on the offensive glass prior to halftime.

Hamilton Jordan

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Jack Johnson

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

Jay Dillon

From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.

Astro Teller

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

Tom Kruse

Have a glass of wine, some pasta, sit a while and chat. Just let the guys know when you're ready to bottle, and they'll set you up.

Mike McCarthy

He said he needs to be 100% sure. He knows what he has to put in to play the way he plays. I'm an optimist. I think the glass is half full. It's about him and his family.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Matthew Smith

The 30-year is the hot IPO of 2006.

Micky Arison

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.

Bill Hartley

We're really pleased to have one of the country's hottest retailers.

Phil Everly

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.

Scott Medalen

It didn't seem like much was working for a while. They got off to a hot start.

Jeff Long

I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.

John Lindsey

Just because it's the middle part of September doesn't mean we couldn't have some pretty hot weather.

Cliff Curtis

I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.

Bill Vaughan

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

P. James

The American watercolor scene today is about innovation and energy.

John Kimball

I don't think I've ever seen the sense of innovation and willingness to take risks that I'm seeing now.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Carl Jung

You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Emily Wood

I was thankful I had an MRE to eat; I had a smelly, stinky room from all the water, but at least I had a roof over my head.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Albert Einstein

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

James Simpson

They are on the roof and need a chopper.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

Natalie Clifford Barney

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

Roger Anderson

I think it will be an important tool for the safety of children.

Joe Scott

It has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with money.

Tom Chambers

For the under-insured and the working poor, this is their safety net.

Ron Hill

We've been trying to look at things with some safety,

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.