Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nabil Nasr

The picture is going to change, it has to change. Definitely there are some healthy areas, but overall the trends are not good. It's time serious attention is given and not just lip service.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

Fran Dunphy

We need to keep him off the glass number one. He's stepping away from the basket and making jump shots, so we have to pay attention to that detail. When he does post up, he's got some pretty good inside moves as well.

Kwame Brown

We have watched a lot of film. When I was coming off the bench, other teams were not paying attention to me and now they are still not trying to play me. I think Kobe and Lamar are doing a great job passing the ball to me when I have a guy sealed.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

Marlon Wayans

Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

Michael Arrington

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

Patrick Ness

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

Russell Smith

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

J. Moore

The 30s are when most people receive their first whiff of mortality ... it's a time when you're first taking a look further on in your life ... depending on how you live in your 30s, the 40s is when it could all start to go horribly wrong.

John Gibbons

We'll put a hold on him every now and then, depending on the situation. He's still learning how to steal.

Duane Gapinski

We're watching Tropical Storm Rita's projected path and, depending on its strength and how much rain falls, everything could change.

Tiger Woods

I thought (old) 7 was a great risk-reward hole. You could hit driver. You could hit fairway wood, or even iron, off the tee, depending on what you feel you could do. Now you're hitting driver where usually we're hitting 3-woods or 2-irons. It's playing totally different now.

Roxane Gay

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, 'Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.'

Gary Carter

I think Pelfrey is on a quick road to the big leagues. Of course, you don't want to rush a young pitcher, but depending on how well he does in this league, and with the needs they have for starting pitchers in New York, he may find himself in the big leagues as early as this season.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

Carlos Beltran

We can score a lot of runs and we know that. It's a great lineup and the good thing about it is we're not depending on one or two guys. We're depending on everyone.

Kenneth Trump

We have to teach kids to report, and teach adults to do something, when they hear about it. A matter of hours or days, depending on the facts of the case, can make a difference between life and death.

X. J. Kennedy

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Bette Davis

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

Peng Liyuan

My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.

Peter Senge

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

Matt Williams

We know Jess likes to run so we just give her the reins and let her run.

Didier Drogba

Nobody likes to be substituted but solidarity with the team always comes first.

Ian Hamilton

Nobody likes going into an office supply store to purchase cartridges,

Bernard Arnault

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Bill Bruford

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Steve Riley

We have a lot of influences, but we turn all that into an L.A. Guns' style.

Petrarch

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Petrarch

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

William Shakespeare

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

Michael Vick

Wherever I go, I'll have to make some changes, ... My style is going to change.

Barry Manilow

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.