Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Bailey

I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.

Bat for Lashes

I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

David Brown

The advert went along the lines of rather than the promotion company spending $20,000 on advertising computer magazines, they were selling massively reduced original program copies at a fraction of the price you would normally pay. I thought the advert was pretty genuine at the time. I suppose all the other losers thought the same too, eh?

Josh Bernoff

The advertising model is extremely simple and very attractive: you simply put your 30-second commercial in front of the video.

Heather Dougherty

The advertising market is obviously far stronger than a few years ago, and Glam is going after a lot of luxury brands that hadn't yet come online then and who still might be hesitant about it, and offering them a very controlled environment to test the waters,

Ian Rowden

The advertising is starting to move us in the right direction. We are seeing good returns in terms of the influence the advertising is having on perception of food quality, fresh food and variety.

Ben Edelman

The advertisers need to be aware that they are not getting their money's worth -- they have a contract that said they are paying for one thing and they are getting another.

Jonathan Mayers

The amazing thing is we used no traditional advertising.

Anthony Fauci

We have a vaccine we know can spur an immune response, albeit at very high doses. We're going in the right direction. The sobering news is we have a long way to go. So it's muted good news.

Abby Cohen

We expect 2001 to be yet another year of profit expansion, albeit at a slower pace.

Wade McKnight

Hedge Fund returns were impeded by futures managers who made strong energy commodity bets. However, preliminary results indicate emerging market managers maintained their stance as leading strategy contenders, albeit by a small margin. Approximately 60% of hedge fund managers in the Index delivered positive returns, while just over half beat the S&P 500.

Alexi Lalas

He has produced, albeit at a lower level, but we think he can make the transition and make it very quickly.

Christopher Cox

the regime, albeit it takes great pains to show us it is stable, is in fact profoundly unstable.

William Walsh

We feel that we're fulfilling part of his wishes, albeit 199 years later,

Ian Shepherdson

With unemployment set to breach 6 percent over the next few months, people's view of the current economy is bound to deteriorate, ... But expectations are what matter for spending, and at this level the numbers suggest consumers spending will rise, albeit not rapidly.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Bill Evans

The RBA retains its tightening bias, albeit softer than in November.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Rob Lowe

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Kathy Sierra

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

Margo Jonker

That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.

Justin Huber

That was a great start to the game, it really got everyone up from the beginning. We just kept building on our play from that point on.

Chris Laplante

We have all of the original plans, about 130 sheets of plans, that we used in designing and building the Texas State Capitol Building.

Paul Watson

We have also made the decision to have only 1 per cent of the fund invested in fixed interest. Instead, we use investments like the RG Casey building in Canberra to deliver a higher annuity style income for rents for long periods.

Jim Balsillie

We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm.

Zac Goldsmith

More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Webb Simpson

I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

John C. Calhoun

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

Carlos Asilis

That would be a positive. Some of the world's excess capacity would be ameliorated.

Scott Maccabe

The 1.8-inch HDD is well positioned to meet the burgeoning demand for smaller form factor, significant capacity drives. Since its introduction, Toshiba has more than doubled the capacity of the 1.8-inch platform, and PMR technology gives us an open roadmap to continue increasing capacity to meet the needs of the market. The 1.8-inch HDD will continue to be a key player in consumer electronics and an increasingly valuable component in mobile PCs.

Cari Yturri

We need to increase our service capacity and it's just time for an update, we are 50 years old.

Ken Miller

We have very little spare capacity internationally to provide enough crude oil to the system to tolerate any more of these types of disruptions.

Ignacio Bunye

We have undiminished faith in the professional loyalty of the (armed forces) and the full capacity of the command to deal with these controversies.

Jim Owens

We have to work through capacity bottlenecks and need more focus on production processes to improve order fulfillment and supply chain efficiencies,

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

Donald Trump

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

Rick Rubin

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

Dale Buvid

Timely hitting continues to be an issue. We had a great time, the weather was great and we got everybody into the game.

Bruce Arena

Tim continues to be a very talented goalkeeper that we think, given time and the right opportunity, is going to continue to improve and be a terrific goalkeeper at the international level. One day he will be the No. 1 goalkeeper for the U.S.

E. O. Wilson

We've learned that the crimes are greater than anticipated and reach as far as Southern California. The number of victims continues to grow.

Paul Tang

US import growth continues to slow as we see home sales there have peaked and interest rate hikes continue.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Geoff Hoon

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

William Reddington Hewlett

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

Keith Bailey

The police have worked endlessly, day and night, to provide us the safest environment they can at 36th and Hampton. The police can only do so much. We have lost accountability of our family members.

David Rabe

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

Bill Brandt

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Peter Singer

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

Bob Miller

Usually we have to scratch and fight for nine innings of baseball. But when you play in a championship environment it intensifies our guys? at-bats.

Kim Brown

We've done festivals before. What better way to have them tell us what they think about the environment?

Idina Menzel

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Bethany Hamilton

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Mike Maroth

The 21-loss thing is probably always going to be mentioned next to my name, but I'm glad the focus is off of that.

Marvin Cohen

That was the general focus of what we did. I think we were right.

Chad Kison

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

Keay Nakae

The overall number where there is actually a problem is still low, but more importantly, you've got, once again, a revelation that the problem is a little wider than first thought. What people had been hoping to see is some end to this.

Bill Vaughan

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Wally Caldwell

That was a total shocker. I think the kids were really hoping to wrestle Wells and turn some scores around.

Ron Jones

We have a nice season going and we're hoping to keeping going this week.

Don Jordan

We were hoping the outcome would not be what it was. We know, though, what the scripture says about children: Their souls go straight to heaven.

Kimberly Smith

We were hoping maybe when she went down there we would find them.

Rick Carlisle

We were hoping it would feel better (Sunday). But you never know with those types of injuries.

Melissa Cook

We were hoping he'd be in someone's shed.

Jose Sosa

We were hoping for a top-10 finish. We were 26th a year ago, so this is a big improvement.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Bruce Lee

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Clint Hurdle

We're not going to continually put 20 rookies out there. That's why we took the inventory that we took the last two years to find out what we had, and find a wave that would land and stay on beach, not be sent back out to the sea.

Paul Lang

Today, people in loss prevention need to have skills in finance, inventory control, accounting. They really need to understand the retail operations thoroughly.

Adam Savage

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Jim Cain

Our inventory is actually less than one per dealer.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Carl Orff

Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.

Carl Rogers

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

Dick Lee

That was a smart move on her part.

Mike Clarke

That was a gutsy move on their part and a visionary move. They saw there was a problem.

Rutina Wesley

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

Steven Arabia

We were going to move as quickly as we could to get the plant back into service . . . and this is the first step in that process.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

Bill Burr

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

David Dunn

We can always use more radios and more frequencies.

Pam Walker

We thought we would start with TV and radio to reach the most people.

David Shuster

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

David Walliams

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

Bill O'Reilly

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

Bernard Goldberg

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Paul Hill

Having one or two things slow us down isn't particularly unexpected. We are going to have a very robust spacecraft.

Alexei Mordashov

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

Brad Anderson

Our back-to school-season was not as robust as we hoped,

Renee James

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

John Carroll

It will be a much more robust system and structure.

Mike Hill

I think it went really well. The word is slowly spreading. We're starting to get more people.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Dawn Staley

This team is the most undisciplined team that we've had. They're just really undisciplined. They're not a team. This is the first team that's not a team, so we're going to get to the problem. We'll slowly but surely get to it, but we'll get to it.

Billy Collins

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.