Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bethenny Frankel

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

Peter Angelos

That was the original intent and understanding. Jim came on three years ago with the understanding of working with Flanagan for a period of time that would result in Mike assuming the position of general manager of the ballclub.

Paul A. Volcker

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.

Marvin Demoff

We've had discussions with Gus, but not much has been resolved. With Junior, there have been no discussions. We're assuming that each party believes they are better off separating from the other.

Bill O'Grady

Will they continue to push the world community? We just don't know. Until we know, it's just really hard to tell what they'll do, assuming tensions remain high.

Samuel Alito

Judicial review after a final decision is the general rule. You're assuming bad faith on the part of those making these decisions.

Firas Askari

I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its tightening cycle. That's a reason to sell dollars.

Alan Skrainka

I think people placed bets today based on (the data). By buying stocks today, you are assuming we won't get bad news tomorrow.

Bruce Buchanan

It does supplant the memories (of Katrina), assuming he does well. But it might be a little hyperbolic to call it a second chance.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Chet Faker

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

Mark Finkelstein

We have had a relationship with the New Brunswick public schools for 27 years. We have provided services for hundreds of their students over the years, and this is nothing more than an extension of that relationship.

Laura Smith

We are in discussions with the NYSE seeking a three-month extension of our filing date.

Lars Frederiksen

We're also making an extension to our Milwaukee plant that will start by the end of the year.

Henry J. Heinz

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

Mayor Goulbourne

I do not support an extension in any way. We have made our moves and we will wait for a response.

Whitney Ransome

We want them to be independent and responsible and be on their own. At the same time, we want to view them, in some cases, as extensions of ourselves.

Kevin Cramer

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Doug Kosarek

This project will be an extension of our on-going partnership with those colleges. It will provide students with a real-life setting.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Rijkman Groenink

We can't go any faster than we are going right now.

Edward Tenthoff

Typically, they are faster to generate revenue and, hopefully, faster to profitability.

James Gleick

Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.

Randy Edsall

We've made up a lot of ground. With each year we've recruited, we've gotten faster and faster. We've increased our team speed each year, but are we to the level of a Georgia Tech? I don't think so.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Don Shula

You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

William Wordsworth

We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope.

Chris Brevi

We have two great linebackers leaving. Guys are hopefully going to fill their shoes.

Pierce Brosnan

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

Todd Pletcher

We were hoping that, as she got older, she would fill out and get stronger, ... Fortunately, that has been true. She has proven to run well at the longer distances.

Jim Ballinger

We're still trying to fill some events. We're still getting settled and then next week we'll hope to get better times and get some things going.

Pierce Brosnan

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Jonathan Chen

Listen to others with an open mind. Normally, that leads to a pleasant conversation.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Damien Hirst

One thing leads to another with my work.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Vidya Balan

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Susanna Moore

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Frank Gehry

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Craig Ferguson

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Nina Easton

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Michael Lehman

We were more linear than we have been in quite a while.

Judith Orloff

Sleeping on something has a lot of power for a lot of reasons. One is that the linear mind is shut off during sleep, so it's pure intuition.

Lloyd Braun

Television is a very straightforward, passive, linear medium.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Regina Smith

It's not unlike what we've seen in previous years.

Paul Frost

It was just, but only just, better than the previous week. Three anglers managed to catch.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Bruce Bochy

That was very similar to how he threw for the Dodgers.

John Davis

We wanted to keep our monthly payments similar to what they are now, and we can do that by splitting it three ways.

Richard Jefferies

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

David Liston

They won't want to be taken over by a much smaller bank,

Rick Whatley

Nothing has changed. We are just in a smaller (space). We didn't really need all that space.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

Carrie Snow

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Beth Simone Noveck

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Ashton Kutcher

The bigger thing with bitcoin is not bitcoin itself, but what does that decentralized technology really do?

Ashton Kutcher

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

Ashton Kutcher

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

Larry Phillips

We just didn't have the technology. It's a very unfortunate situation.

Marlee Matlin

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

Carol D'Amico

We have to make better use of technology.

Spanish Proverb

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap

Chuck Feeney

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Mark Begich

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Andy Serkis

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

David Levithan

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

Tadashi Yanai

Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

Shah Rukh Khan

I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.