Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Sidney Jones

The police and prosecution really want to see these charges stick,

Don Aaron

The at-fault driver has not been determined, so charges have not been filed yet.

Boucounta Diallo

My client wants to be heard as soon as possible on the charges in question. He wants to use his right to speak. It is not comfortable to defend someone who has done nothing wrong.

Jeff Wuite

Most of the charges are for things like possession of stolen property, theft over and under $5,000, unlawful use of credit cards, and possession of counterfeit money.

Robert Stewart

Most of it was old and minor offenses, larceny and drug charges from the '70s and '80s,

Sanford Bernstein

messy, given the significant charges IBM is expected to take.

Bud Selig

I think this was much more specific. The specificity of these charges said it was time to have an investigation.

Richard Spoor

I won't lay charges because I was not injured. The man's punch is as weak as his explanation for ripping off this rural community. It is enough that my assailant disgraced himself and his company in front of government representatives and the community.

Nathan Gonzales

I think right now it is a serious race and it's a competitive race, but it is somewhat on hold because I think a majority of people are waiting to see how things are playing out in the courts, how the charges are settled.

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Nicole Holofcener

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

F. Sionil Jose

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

Lucy Caldwell

Getting the factual information out there is important and that is what we are doing.

Scott Stricklin

We're not going to respond to allegations that are not accompanied by factual information.

Joshua Micah Marshall

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

Fred Thompson

When there are factual disputes, it's better to have live witnesses.

Paul Budde

To use Macquarie's own words, I'd like to see factual information from Macquarie why these issues are lies, incorrect or misleading.

Bob Francis

We'll tell you factual stuff as soon as we figure it out.

Eric Funk

I would like to have some factual information.

Clark Brewster

It's so fantastic and so unconnected to factual support, and so prejudicial.

Robert Ekstrand

Yes, there are pictures that demonstrate the impossibility of her factual allegations. During her dance, however long it lasted, she had some fingernails that were painted and on some fingers, and then there were other fingers that had no fingernails on them at all. It appeared, just looking at it, if you do, that she has not finished something that she started in terms of putting on her fingernails.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Larry Rice

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Larry Ellison

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.

Craig Bruce

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Jeff Raikes

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Knox Fuqua

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

Steven Milunovich

Next year IBM is probably going to come in roaring back into the second half, but in between it's a mess,

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390. This is an evolutionary trend.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390,

Alan Skrainka

Take IBM out and the market looks pretty much unchanged on the day.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

E. Hicks

You all are going to have to lower that camera.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Christopher Mecray

My sense is that the stock is going to stabilize here. You get much lower than this and it starts to get to be real overreaction.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

John Sculley

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

James Fisher

If you can run Windows on the Macintosh, maybe the Macintosh will be more marketable.

Don Rittner

The Macintosh is not a computer, it's a way of life.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Ben Affleck

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Paul Larrabee

We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit override consideration.

Ron Barber

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Benjamin Franklin

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Mark Anderson

That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.

Stewart Alsop

Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.

David Filo

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

Chuck Austin

Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before.

Bill Gates

Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.

Chris Grisanti

Microsoft could very well be the next Microsoft.

Drake Johnstone

Microsoft would do whatever they can to keep AT&T from going to AOL.

Harvey Saferstein

Microsoft needs a settlement more than the government.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Linda Todd

At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

Isaac Brock

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kenenisa Bekele

The 3,000 meters record has stood for a long time.

Bob McAnally

That was the most ever, a record number.

Scott Ritter

I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.

Patricia Millett

I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

Madonna Ciccone

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

Johnny Marr

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Ashley Walker

If we are not in each other's suites, we are always yelling out the windows into the courtyard at one another.

Tom Silva

A lot of times, those windows can be refurbished.

Damian Marley

Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world.