Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

Yanis Varoufakis

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Wolfe

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Tina Brown

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Thomas Keller

Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

Thomas Hardy

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

Imelda May

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Bethany Mota

BB cream is my lifesaver! It's so light on my skin, plus it protects and gives me coverage at the same time. My favorites are from Maybelline and Smashbox.

Neil Budde

That was the genesis of the full coverage of Yahoo News.

Peter Price

We've gotten more coverage and more noise and more fan response and more buzz.

Paul Di Filippo

Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.

John Skipper

You'll expect to see this year much more coverage from us online, and we'll do a dedicated World Cup site -- expect to see phone updates and alerts and highlights,

Mark Brunell

We got the coverage we wanted in the right situation. So we were very fortunate.

Brian Seymore

We gave up some big plays, and our kickoff coverage wasn't very good, which gave us some problems.

Dave Lesar

We haven't had much media coverage because I suspect it was positive news for us.

Frank Rich

The press coverage will surely, with hindsight, make for hilarious reading.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Jim Hamilton

The announcement is really just setting the stage for a new era in process color. Customers prefer incremental change. They don't like to take big steps.

Jeff Garcia

We have an entire team dedicated to ensuring that the needs of our Marketing Planner customers are exceeded.

Jim Henderson

We have always offered free delivery to our customers.

Stuart Rose

We have already received such positive feedback from customers we will be extending the range further this autumn.

Martin George

We have worked very hard on efficiency and productivity (so) we can put lower fares in the market place, give customers better value for money and make money,

David Hillenbrand

We have to understand who our customers are,

Bill Newman

We have three dedicated lines just to handle the calls. Once the drivers learn their routes and the customers become familiar with their pickup days, then the problem will go away.

Mike Moore

We were hired by customers to get out of their contracts. It showed what a difficult industry this is to understand.

Phil Collins

Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

Robert Greenblatt

I think it would be the equivalent of an X rating if it were going in front of the MPAA.

Alvin Sykes

Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing.

Terry Zwigoff

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

William Reinsch

It does seem like they're unloading this in the equivalent of a fire sale.

Charles Schalliol

Given the needs of the state and the jobs this creates, how could the state pass this up. As the governor has said, this is the equivalent of winning the lottery. And do we want to tear up the check?

Don Moore

What we give them is the equivalent of a catered experience of being in a band.

H. Hart

Voters can have on the equivalent of five different pairs of glasses when they judge a policy proposal.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

Betsey Johnson

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Pat Meehan

There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

Jeff Gordon

We have to keep our fans watching not just at home on TV but here at the racetrack too. This is where you sell people on the speed and excitement of racing.

Pearl Cleage

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Mark Rein

It doesn't generate as much noise and excitement as Microsoft and Sony will, but Nintendo always seems to have a great product line and make a lot of money.

Phil Garner

It does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. And I think we play for that. We play for that excitement and that noise. It helps us a little bit.

John Maloney

I'm a little disappointed in the excitement about GM closing. I don't feel it, but I know others do. We need to help these people keep their jobs.

Brendan Witt

I'm all for change. It's about excitement and entertainment, right? The way to do that is with more goals and more scoring.

Isaac Mayer Wise

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Donald Trump

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Vikram Seth

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

Becky G

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Allen Baker

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

Bill Grant

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

Patricia Polacco

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Marcus Samuelsson

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Robert Seay

Mostly the rain has come at a good time for our warm-season hay crops. We have a lot of farmers who will be planting some hay crops.

David Lenze

Why was it so high last year? Because of the farm sector. That is a very volatile sector.

Shigeru Omi

We need to realize that there is very little incentive for farmers to report suspected outbreaks,

Ken Lawson

You can be a really successful farmer with an oil well in your backyard.

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Ben Holmes

Willis is a big insurance brokerage and very profitable,

Robert Carter

Title insurance is not required by law, but it's prudent to get it, to make sure you own a property. The state, however, sets the rates for title insurance.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Verna Rutherford

People are ramping up and spending insurance money on repairs being done, and they're doing it as much as they can at home.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

Jim Calhoun

will be a very tough out in the NCAA tournament.

Ricardo Patton

I think this team has shown it's worthy of an NCAA bid.

Claire Coggins

We are disappointed because there are some teams that are 14-16 (that got into the NCAA Tournament), and it doesn't seem right, but that's the way it goes, and we are really proud to get to play in the (W)NIT, and that we get to play at home.

Rahshon Clark

To feel like we're set for the NCAA Tournament, we have to win every single game. If we don't, we're going to feel like we're on the bubble, and we don't want to be in that position.

Adam Haluska

We can go into the (Big Ten) tournament without any worry about the NCAA tournament. There's no pressure on us.

Mike Schulze

I don't know that we've seen it. But the NCAA surveys everybody. I'm not surprised they surveyed the officials about us.

Eric Devendorf

I don't know where we're going, but you've got to look up. The NCAA tournament obviously is in jeopardy. If we want to be there, then we've just got to play.

Gary Roberts

The potential here is significant. The NCAA is at some risk.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all. We won the SEC tournament, and now we want to win the NCAA tournament.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Bob Harris

Well, I think everyone kind of sees us as the sheriff, you know.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Alejandro Fernandez

It's not completely to his liking, but what else can he do now that he sees I was right?

Anthony Hemingway

When someone sees in you what you've been feeling all along, that's an awesome thing.

Nate Burleson

It was tough for him. When Superman sees Kryptonite for the first time, it's shocking.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Brea Grant

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Bonnie Tyler

It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird.

Barry McCaffrey

The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.

Ross Mathews

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Philip Treacy

You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

CC Sabathia

I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

Carrie Fisher

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ...

Carrie Fisher

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Underwood

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Bethany Hamilton

I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding is amazing, you get the adrenaline rush, but you don't get the feel of the ocean, of doing its own thing. Totally surrounding you. Definitely a unique thing, it's a blessing, and a huge part of my healing process I would say.

Ashley Tisdale

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Ashley Tisdale

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

Ashton Kutcher

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

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.

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.

Chiaki Kuriyama

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

Charlaine Harris

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Randy Burditt

Without all of the help, the tournament would be nothing. It was another success.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Kim Clijsters

Yeah, it was (the quickest tournament I've won),

Helen Wills Moody

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.