Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Davis

Judge Moore assured me that he would be able to meet the deadlines that judge Hoeveler set,

Antonio Tarver

He was beat by a better fighter. Period. I am one of the best fighters in the world. Give me my credit. You all thought I would be one-punch happy but I passed my test. I did my homework. I took nothing for granted. I wasn't assured of victory until they raised my hand.

Bob Lee

Whatever the outcome on Sunday you can rest assured that while Brett may not have gone into the event 100 per cent fit, he will have given it 100 per cent effort.

Tim Tompkins

We take it for granted that crime continues to go down, the economy is strong and tourism has grown. Those things weren't assured four years ago.

Sam Mitchell

When I put him in the lineup as a small forward, I told him it was on a game-to-game basis. He assured me he wasn't going to relinquish the position.

Kevin Bettencourt

I think we saw more of Kansas last year because they were on TV more. The coaches have assured us they have tape on everybody and they've already gone through it.

Bruce Bochy

He's done a terrific job for us, ... I assured him it had nothing to do with the game.

Tipu Munshi

He has assured us to tag our priority items into the list of 97 per cent products to be given duty-free access.

Stephen Mandel

rest assured they have a good police department and they are trying to solve these crimes.

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Jim Taylor

Kids don't necessarily (even) sort out the difference between store brands and product brands.

Todd Campbell

I wouldn't be a brand new buyer of most companies, ... But old money should keep riding the wave. Don't get off the moving bus until it stops.

David Herman

Hartmann and country music share a long and rich history in Tennessee and it is therefore only natural that our two iconic brands be linked in this celebration of this year's very best.

Sam Rockwell

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

Todd Vesely

This was a good start for us. We made a few mistakes and had some steps that cost us some points, but overall it was a good day. We put ourselves in position, but (today) is a brand new competition and anything can happen.

Ben Silverman

He's a classy brand and a brilliant coach.

Jonathan Pritchard

Going from zero to a well-known brand in any country takes a long time, but in the U.S. it will take a lot longer.

Richard Hayne

Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers' lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept.

Sky Dayton

Going after the wireless market and a very specific consumer, we created a new brand that's going to be specific to that.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Flip Saunders

Kelly Clarkson will be replacing Rasheed Wallace at power forward, ... She brings a burst of energy - and a special knack for making the players around her better.

Tom Doyle

Keith brings a level of professionalism to the team that will help us get to the next level. He has been working with NBA caliber players and knows how to get these guys ready to play at that level.

Gregg Williams

Just the physical presence he brings makes a huge difference.

Jim Kubinski

Just the name Augusta brings to mind thoughts of championship golf. I feel we are ready to start playing our A-game, and what better place to do it than Augusta, Georgia.

Rob Sands

Jon brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Constellation Europe as we continue to implement our international growth strategy.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Larry Brown

Jamal played great, even without the (go-ahead) shot. He played hurt, he had no business being out there. He was great.

David Jacobs

Jake Jacobs has been thoroughly involved in executing Spyder's business strategy, and has been integral to the company's success. He's a leading expert on fabric technology, and has incredible industry knowledge and experience. His soul is the brand. It just so happens that he's also my son.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Sophia Amoruso

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

Jeff Fager

Katie is a world-class reporter. There aren't many people in this business who can conduct an interview as well as she can. It's no wonder Don Hewitt was chasing her for years to be on this broadcast, and it's exciting that it's finally going to happen.

Quentin Blake

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

Cheryl Ladd

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I'm often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term 'Token Chick.' So it's been such a great, great gift in my life.

John Landis

I think you can see in the movie how passionate, really passionate John and Danny were about the music. It's a unique situation where you have two guys who are exploiting their own celebrity of the moment to focus a spotlight on these great acts.

Ken Tucker

I think what underpins Howard Stern's outrageousness is that fact that he's a really intelligent guy, ... When you go on the 'Howard Stern Show' as a celebrity guest, you know you're not just there to plug your movie. You know you're there because Howard is really interested in you and wants to pry something out of you. He wants to get to your essence.

Stephen Hess

I think as we become more and more of a celebrity culture -- as we expect to learn more and more about the people who we elect president or make movie stars -- we are intrigued by their families.

Zach Braff

It has a really smart, irreverent look at celebrity and making fun of people who get famous for really odd things,

Christopher Darden

There are no rules for celebrities. Being a celebrity means getting what you want. But on June 12, he doesn't get what he wants.

Gwen Stefani

I don't expect to fit in right away but I do sense that the fashion world is rooting for me, too. I'm not being treated like a celebrity wannabe fashion designer. But even if I was, it doesn't really matter because I'm doing this for me ... but it does feel really good when you have a hit,

Sally Quinn

I suspect she and the chef did not see eye-to-eye, and that is the kind of thing that happens. So much of this is chemistry and personality. So I am sure they will get another chef and I am sure the food will be fine.

Alton Brown

It ain't what you got, it's what you know and do with what you got, ... The difference between a cook and a chef is understanding what's going on.

Daniel Boulud

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

Wolfgang Puck

One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things.

Alice Hoffman

I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.

Paula Zahn

In five years, North Korea could have 100 nuclear weapons and be churning out more like a fast-food chef with nothing else to keep its economy going. North Korea will peddle them to the highest bidder.

Gail Jones

I'm not a chef, I'm a cook. A chef is someone who spends a lot of money, my mother taught me.

Henry Beard

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Eric Ripert

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Carlos Braceras

I would say we are much more on that side . . . The administration (of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.) is supportive of new concepts and is looking for the implementation of HOT lanes sooner rather than later.

Gerhard Richter

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

Rita Ora

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

Bill Guerin

We've given (the owners) well-thought-out proposals and ( Gary Bettman is) not willing to negotiate. What we've gotten back is just ridiculous. We presented a proposal with hundreds of pages of fine details. What we got back is six concepts and the longest one may have been 230 words and some were 30 words. You know what that is? That's no effort. (Bettman) is not being serious.

Jay Norvell

I think we're doing a lot of good things. We have a lot of offense in and every drill we want to win, but we aren't playing a game today. I'm really happy with the way we're starting to run the football. Our (I-backs) are running hard, we're starting to understand concepts and we're getting better.

Duane Akina

He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.

Rhoda Kopy

People have developed very inappropriate concepts of what happens. I think, in part, it is because of Hollywood. Hollywood's depiction is someone swinging a pendulum of some sort and gaining control of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Tom Hopkins

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

Dan Clark

It has been my experience that what perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concepts of object-oriented programming

Nancy Tellem

Jack's extensive background, contacts and expertise in the music industry make him the ideal person to become CBS' go-to executive for all music-related enterprises.

Prince Nayef

Handing over the hijackers is up to contacts between the two countries. The fate of the hijackers would be decided by the Saudi authorities,

Larry Morris

He has the contacts to get the job done. We need fewer liquor stores and more grocery stores.

H. Hart

He has the contacts and the time to move us forward. There will be a learning curve for him like there is for any first year coach, but we're going to focus on strategies that are effective here.

Paul Guen

I had contacts with Rangers last year and they have been resumed recently.

Richard Lachmann

If you have a regular routine and you go back to the same places, your day can be filled up with these short contacts with people you see regularly. People who don't have that are really missing something.

Steve Finley

Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been incredible thus far. It has given me enough knowledge to take the important facts about healthy vending options to my own personal and professional contacts and expand these positive programs wherever we can.

Jeff Malone

I'll probably reach out to those guys this week. I like to know things instead of just speculating. I'll make some contacts with those guys.

Army Archerd

I have so many contacts all over the world.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Paul Sarbanes

His expertise will be missed in the Congress,

Hank McKinnell

By transferring their expertise to local healthcare workers, these Fellows make lasting contributions to support health systems in communities ravaged by diseases. The Pfizer Global Health Fellows program represents an innovative collaboration between NGOs and the private sector to significantly improve the lives of people around the world in a sustainable way.

John Chamberlain

I'm surprised he won't be staying on the board. They could have used his expertise going forward.

Dan Hoffman

The middle market is a growing opportunity for us. Jamie and Scott have the expertise we need to leverage the strengths of the firm.

Rob Pupich

Their expertise has been a great help to me as far as doing things in practice and making adjustments in games.

Magda Stoczkiewicz

The EIB does not have its own safeguard procedures on indigenous peoples or resettlement. There is also hardly any expertise within the EIB on development issues, poverty or especially on environmentally sustainable development.

Kevin Burns

This is our method for providing our expertise to the community. If someone wants to staff the station full time around the clock, we'll look at a different avenue.

Roxane Gay

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Stephen Koukoulas

Growth momentum means offshore investors want to put their money in Australia.

Wolfgang Clement

have reacted in an appropriate way to the state of growth with rate cuts.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Chris King

In the wireless industry that's a long time to be projecting into the future.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Frederick Searby

Industry numbers have been somewhat disappointing. It's going to be a very tough year again.

William Moore

Industry hasn't been as prominent a player as they ought to be. I would suggest that we outsource - that shakes a lot of people, I know - a lot of support services.

Janeen Koconis

I looked at the greeting-card industry and saw that there was so much potential in it.

Steve Evans

Paul has been an integral part of my management team and has played a key part in our recent success,

Robert Harris

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Clint Norred

They have a tough job, and a lot of people overlook them. But they play an integral part.

Mitch Layne

They're so loved and so much an integral part of our ward, our congregation and our youth group. Everyone is so sad about that.

Chris Byrne

What we're really trying to do is to be an integral part of the Pennsylvania jazz scene.

John Feehery

The speaker wants J.C. back. He thinks he's an integral part of his leadership team.

Khloe Kardashian

Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

Susanna Phillips

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

Jennifer Stephens

Chaplains will remain an integral part of military service.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Alan Levenson

I think they have sent a message that I'm surprised that they wanted to send to the market. I think the markets are seeing the neutral directive and they are saying, 'Well, they're done,' which I think is wrong.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

David Pursell

The markets will treat it like it's Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger.

Linda Jay

The markets really are little overdone to the upside.

Felix Boni

The markets here and in the U.S. have been moving in the same direction. Today they're up, and moves in Mexico are stronger.

Robert Metcalfe

The markets for the products are huge. If you can get it right, it's really a market that's infinite.

Andrea Williams

The markets are with him and I think the numbers will be pretty good.

Tim Evans

The markets are bracing for Thursday's DOE reports, with traders cringing since the recent (supply) trends have been bearish.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Jim Abbott

I think it's probably the most revered record in sports. I don't know that there's any record in sports where people could readily name the first and second guy.

Paul Larsen

It is Jesse Ventura times 100. She's got a thousand times as much money, 100 times the name recognition. She has a sterling reputation for honesty.

Stephanie Young

When they say the name Middleton, you don't know who to root for. So you give up and root for all of them.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Randal Pinkett

At some level, I am a celebrity. I'm recognized all the time.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Rick Comley

We wanted to get back to being a nationally recognized program. I think we're there.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

John le Carre

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Julie Kavner

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

Rod Smith

I'm p---ed off, trust me. But what can I do about it now? All I can do is go to work tomorrow (and) look at the tape hard.

Harvey Korman

Tape Seinfeld for me.

James Q. Wilson

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

Walter Winchell

and I worked on the voice for months. I would play tapes for people, and sometimes they couldn't tell the difference.

Teri Knight

The duct tape crosses. That's what did it.

James Franco

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

Prince Philip

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Lenny Kravitz

Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

Wilson Mizner

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

William Greider

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Robert G. Allen

Wealth is thoughts, not things.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Jacque Fresco

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

Manmohan Singh

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.