Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Ackerman

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Tyler Mane

Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.

Tracy Morgan

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

Talulah Riley

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

David Novak

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Chuck D.

We had some big plays. This isn't the normal Vernon team you see with the three yards and a cloud of dust ? although we had clouds of dust today.

Zedd

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

Gary Dugan

There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern that the Fed will be increasing rates this side of Christmas; secondly, it's the slowing corporate earnings outlook. Although corporate earnings are still probably going to rise, I think there's a concern that numbers may come in below consensus and drive the markets down.

Sally Hawkins

I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

Jack Ma

Currently, it seems the second phase has been completed smoothly and even better than my expectations. Now we are entering the third phase of reshaping.

Michael Patrick Hearn

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

Mark Waggoner

In the next month to month-and-a-half, we're going to hit $70 a barrel, and I would expect $75 to $85 by the summer. We're just going to be taking the supplies down until refinery maintenance is completed around the end of the month.

Timothy Brown

It has to be completed by then. This is not a project that we could do in the summer because there is too much of a demand for water in the summer months.

Debbie Tower

That is being done as a design-build project, which speeds up the process. It will be completed in three years and paid for over five years.

Nancy Thompson

About 85% of the work has been completed within a week's period.

Glenn Reyer

We have completed some major work already. We have installed a new elevator, new restrooms, new kitchen, and replaced the heating system. We have a new entrance and a second exit stairway from the second floor, but much remains to be done.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Rebel Wilson

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge' while studying, which was very difficult, but I'm proud I completed my degree.

Charles Dickens

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Peter Sealey

Advertisers have to find another way to deliver their message. Because of the decline in traditional media, they have to make themselves more interesting.

Trilby Lundberg

This is really a resumption of the 22-cent decline since the peak price, back on May 21,

Steve Edwards

We're past the peak and on the way down, but how far down we don't know. However, the kiwi's fall is helping and it will offset some of the decline in prices.

Derek Sivers

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

Robert Lynch

In the end, he did not fully validate the recent decline in the market's Fed tightening expectations.

Randy Johnson

Was the decline in the union movement due to a lousy message, or are they going to try a different tactic that will be more effective? It still remains to be seen as all this unfolds.

Keith Schwer

Still, the one-month modest decline in the index is in line with the general trend of economic expansion since 9/11 (terrorist attacks) and the weakness of 2002.

Mark Snyder

The decline was probably linked to a shift in construction patterns. Last winter was a much harder one, and the construction season started later than usual.

Jim Harper

This is a symbol of what's to come - that is, the government expecting to be able to dip into private databases to do all kind of surveillance and research.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Jerramy Stevens

He has been on some championship teams, so he knows when it's coming. He is able to dip out of that pretty slick.

Arturo Gonzalez

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Nicholas Hoult

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Kurtis Blow

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

Wayne Best

The strong spending volume Visa is experiencing, and the trends we've seen leading up to Thanksgiving, bode well for merchants this holiday season.

Steve Kernkraut

Thanksgiving weekend was strong and that lifted a lot of the retailers' results. I think they have momentum going into the holiday season.

Howard Morley

Sales are starting to get back up there after the holiday period and prices show no real sign of weakness.

E. B. White

This isn't going to be judged on whether we sell a lot of tops over the Web for the holiday season,

Diane Cilento

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Deepak Chopra

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Dominic Monaghan

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Patrick Byrne

We've had a nice holiday season, just not as nice a season as we've had in the past or as I'd hoped for.

Sharon Smith

Everything we have will still be rustic. It?s not going to be the Holiday Inn, but it won?t be as primitive.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Steve Alexander

We've had nine people, but that's the max.

Charlie Warner

We had seven of nine players get a hit. I'll take that every time.

Kevin Heise

There's not much we can do about what has been done. But I'm going to be optimistic and say we'll be able to play nine or 10 games, at The Cage.

Albert Einstein

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Victor LaValle

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

Ray Floyd

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

Ray Bradbury

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Dave Clark

Nine times out of 10, he catches that ball,

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Miley Cyrus

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

Suze Orman

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

Simone de Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Sophie Kinsella

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

Swoosie Kurtz

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Margaret Mahy

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Jean Kerr

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Fran Drescher

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

Chris Hardwick

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Tom Hooper

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Tina Fey

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I really love being in London at weekends - there's always so much to do.