Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Toni Simonetti

We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those discussions are progressing.

Gary Loveman

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

Will Marks

Based on these announcements, we do not believe that Vail is on the selling block. However, we are confident that Mr. Katz, with his deep knowledge of Vail and extensive private equity real estate background, will actively work to maximize shareholder value through balance sheet management, cost cutting (cheaper Denver office space for one), and through the continued monetization of the company's valuable real estate assets.

Shang Fulin

China will open its capital market gradually, actively and stably,

Huang Ju

China will actively encourage her best companies to invest in Guinea to conduct economic cooperation of various fields and in various forms,

Hu Jintao

China is ready to expand economic and trade cooperation with Kenya and actively implement the cooperative projects agreed by the two sides in the areas of transportation, telecommunication, electric power, and infrastructure construction,

Zeng Qinghong

China has always stood firmly in maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and will actively propel parties concerned to solve the nuclear issue through peaceful dialogue,

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Dan Miceli

I've been around young guys. I guess I get along in the clubhouse and with the bullpen guys. If I can help them in any kind of way, I will.

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

E. Hicks

I've suffered right along with all the rest of the fans. We lost like seven one-run games. When we hit, we did not pitch. When there was pitching, there was no hitting.

Sherri Coale

I've never seen an 18-year-old kid do it night in and night out regardless of the circumstance, regardless of the venue. Kids get sick, they have tests, they have distractions, they have a bad night. There are a million things that happen to freshmen along the course of the season.

Carlos Boozer

I've seen a couple things on TV about it. When I was there, and it wasn't too long ago, the white students got along with us great. Everybody took care of each other on campus.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

Matt Brady

I've said all along we weren't going to reach our potential until late January or early February. That's what I'd been insisting even through those four games, which were four difficult losses. I think we'll be OK.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

John Ruskin

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever

Yingxi Yu

The weaker (gold-dollar) correlation late last year and early this year was due to the overwhelming enthusiasm among the speculative community to drive prices higher.

Frank Cappiello

The whole closed-end market is based on psychology, ... There's still a lot of hope among the investors who don't want to sell.

Chuck Armor

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?

Margaret Spellings

That's why the Department has pledged $14 million to gather the best practices among the states and to better assess and better measure these kids.

Abdul Zaeef

That the opposition forces have made advancement is a mere lie. The opposition have no support among the people. If the opposition had made ... any advancement towards us ... it would have been reported in the media.

Marc Levy

That Norway has fallen to 18th place is not good, but you are still among the 20 best nations. The study gives a clear message about how Norway must improve its efforts. But the study also shows that the world has a major, shared problem. Even the best nations would not get better than a 'B' if this had been a school exam, no one got an 'A'.

Scott Maccabe

The 1.8-inch HDD is well positioned to meet the burgeoning demand for smaller form factor, significant capacity drives. Since its introduction, Toshiba has more than doubled the capacity of the 1.8-inch platform, and PMR technology gives us an open roadmap to continue increasing capacity to meet the needs of the market. The 1.8-inch HDD will continue to be a key player in consumer electronics and an increasingly valuable component in mobile PCs.

Melissa McHenry

For now this tight capacity remains an issue and we are monitoring the situation closely.

Nancy Achin

I fear you don't have the psychological capacity to know what I'm thinking.

Joseph Domenech

In Africa, the capacity to respond will not be enough.

Thomas Moran

It has stretched resources and capacity to the limit.

Alan Greenspan

Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

Bill Dudley

The rate of capacity utilization would have to go up pretty dramatically for the Fed to tighten.

Kathleen Tierney

The question is not whether we need something like the Red Cross, but whether its capacity is scalable to true catastrophes and multiple disaster events, ... Now we're talking about a pandemic. Where would the Red Cross be?

Luis Corrons

The propagation capacity of Sober.AH means that every time there is a new infection, the chances of receiving an infected e-mail increase exponentially.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Alan Keyes

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Anthony Trollope

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Colleen McCullough

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Anita Shreve

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Rene Descartes

Reason is nothing without imagination.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Seth Lloyd

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Rudi Giuliani

I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.