Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Henry Yennie

Of the almost 1,500, we suspect there's a 'nugget' who are truly missing ? washed out into the Gulf. Then there's a small subset that honestly don't want to be found. How do we know when we're done? How long do you keep looking? What do you do when you've done all the DNA testing you can, when you've called everyone and you still can't find the person?

Janine Jansen

After the concert, people said it was almost too intimate to watch us play.

Dan Kammen

Oil futures are based on people's fears. It's almost exactly similar to the stock market. We buy oil on the futures market. So if you look out in the future, you have to say, is it likely that Iran will have a conflict?

Amy Evans

Once we got to the sectional last year, it was almost like a sigh of relief. I felt like anything after that was going to be icing on the cake. This year, you set the ball higher and say, 'Maybe that is not enough.

Mark Tveskov

Once the gold rush came, white settlement of the Rogue Valley was a quick bloom, and conflict with the Indian population was almost instantaneous.

Morgan Pressel

Actually in the majors, I feel almost more comfortable, because the courses are set up that much more tougher, where it puts a premium on accuracy, which I think is one of the strongest parts of my game.

Martin Jacques

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included.

Al Goldman

The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction -- it builds on itself.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Max Mosley

ask the public what they want -- probably through the television companies, but that's a matter for Bernie. I think he would prefer to change but I think he's quite easy about it.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

James Darren

People ask me if I'd like to be a teenager today, I'd have to say, "Not really." I'd never have gotten to meet Frank Sinatra. I wouldn't have ever known Quinn, Gregory Peck, David Niven or Lee Thompson or Carl Foreman or Shelley Winters or Burl Ives. I wouldn't have known those people.

Dr. Fauci

People ask me, 'How worried should we be?

Chris Coste

People ask me how I hit that way, and I say, 'I grew up watching Kirby Puckett. He was the kind of guy who had that Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire factor, where he would go to other stadiums and people from those cities would watch him play.

Casey Stengel

People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've been invited to Europe, and I say, 'They don't speak English over there too good, either.'

Cassie Steele

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Thomas Leritz

Companies are being helped by the industrial recovery. The economy continues to hum.

Jeffrey Joerres

Companies are as optimistic as they have been for the last five quarters over which we've seen job gains. Hiring intentions are holding at a high level.

Tracy Mullin

This is going to be a great season for kids, ... Lots of hot toys out there. A lot of electronic toys, interactive toys. A lot of wonderful things for children.

Eva Simons

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

Andrea Lewis

Now, the way in which we send that information will be by secure and encrypted electronic transfer.

Peter Lilley

Physical money possesses greater risk than electronic money or even gold.

John Ford

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

Bill Steiner

It's fast. It's easy. You don't run the risk of math errors. I can't think of a reason not to use electronic filing.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Jose Leal

We really can't rely on electronic equipment. You have to rely on your experience and senses.

Douglas Adams

But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

Randy Pausch

Develop a good filing system.

Scott Bauer

But this filing will give us the freedom to operate the office as we wish, such as taking limited deposits, until it makes strategic sense to open a full-service branch.

Steve Brown

The petitions were reviewed, and there were a number of defective signatures. But it looks like they filed just over the minimum. There was no point in filing objections.

Bruce Phillips

This whole project could unravel by the filing of this lawsuit.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Perry Hill

I know what Andino needs to work on and what he needs to do. I've just got to slow him down. He gets a little geared up at times.

Susana Lopez

You don't have to be a Latina to join. You just have to be geared toward Latina issues.

Cory Schaefer

We had to settle down. We were too geared up to play and once we settled down it was too little, too late.

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Albert Einstein

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Anthony Hamilton

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

D. H. Lawrence

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Thomas Huxley

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Rumi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Steve Harvey

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Mark Walter

People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise.

Charles Bona

People should not be overwrought about the unearned balance.

Steven Kaye

People should make resolutions not to go for gimmicks.

Source Unknown

People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.

Bob Johnson

People should know what's going on under their property. It is difficult, but you have to do your homework.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

David Colton

There's really a lot of unanswered questions regarding this plan.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Scott Aker

We haven't set it as a specific goal.

Richard Boucher

I do not have anything specific to Yemen.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Charles McDonald

Even the slowest walker will be done by noon.

Anita Diament

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Suzanne Collins

Some walks you have to take alone.

Teresa Palmer

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

Michael Stipe

Anybody that walks can sing..

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.