Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

John Stokes

The Pinelands Commission is thankful that the court recognized and acknowledged the clear threat to the unique resources of the Pinelands area attributable to the proposed facility.

Eric Hansen

The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't recognize them. There are mature trees in one area or the building of new structure in another area.

Clinton Morrison

The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction with that, systems are getting more complex. So there is a big demand for solutions to help manage this growth. Storage area networks (are) still in their infancy. It's a fairly small market and I think the experts expect to see very rapid growth in the order of 50-to-100 percent in the market for a number of years.

Eric Klein

The PC market is in a very mature stage in its evolution, ... That is why vendors are expanding their strategies beyond the box, expanding into services and storage. You also see Intel moving into the rapidly growing area of communications chips.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Marsha Norman

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

Beck

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

Dianne Wiest

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Hines Ward

I thought he was going to be here, but obviously he's not. It's sad. I don't think it had to come to this. ... I've got to prepare like we're going into the season right now without Plax; we don't know what is going to happen.

Chris Squire

Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.

Tom Renney

We need some pop. Going into Philly (tomorrow) ... we want him to get some realistic work.

Brenda Fassie

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

Clarice Lispector

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Gary Murphy

We, as adults, try to shout at them about it and it doesn't always work,

Niall Horan

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Billy Casper

As long as you're not shouting and hollering.

Emily Hughes

A little over a week ago, I wasn't even supposed to be here. I went out there for warm-ups and they were shouting my name. That's the first time that ever happened.

Ruby Dee

I used to want to shout 'Help me!'

Steve Jones

I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.