Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Allardyce

Kevin has led the team with passion and professionalism. Each week he gives you everything and he has the ability to be a top player for years to come. One of his main attributes is his ability to score goals on a regular basis. If he continues to progress, he'll go close to earning a seat on the plane to Germany in June.

Michael Nathanson

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Frank Solich

(Jacobs) has two receivers that are going to get a shot at pro ball and have the ability to play. They're averaging over 100 yards a game in receptions. They have a combination of things that makes it very hard to stop.

Virginia Laken

Keith and I thought we had really good communication but we hadn't had to have this kind of communication about our intimacy. We so often equate intimate relationships with ability to have intercourse, and what we try to help couples understand is that intimacy is not totally equated with intercourse. Intimacy -- as we all know but don't usually put into practice -- can happen in many, many ways.

Louis Miller

Joe Leonard doesn't make quick decisions, which is good. He has the ability to focus on what he wants to get done.

Mike Eaves

Joe has the ability to make something out of nothing, and it's hard to account for skill like that. That makes him an effective offensive player.

Mike Scioscia

Joe has an incredible baseball mind and a tremendous ability to communicate with players on all levels. That's a combination any player should appreciate.

J. Taylor

John is very athletic for his size. His strength is there. He's got to polish a few things in the passing game and some in the running game, but as long as he has a desire there to want to be successful, he's got all the athletic ability to be successful.

Joe Alberici

John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.

John O'Donoghue

I also believe strongly that capping this exemption would send out a message internationally that we do not encourage success in the arts ... We will force our young talent to go abroad as soon as they become successful. This is wrong.

Shashi Tharoor

Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend's sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that.

David Rubin

It is no secret that the image of the United States abroad is not as positive as it must be. To the degree we can help to repair that image by introducing these visitors to American views of democracy, a free press and the role of citizens, we will have provided a valuable service to our country.

Kelly Corrigan

I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.

Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

John McGonegal

In 2005 our strategy to aggressively pursue quality listings both domestically and abroad proved a major success for the Amex. We plan to capitalize on our strength within the domestic markets and further expand our commitment to attracting desirable foreign listings by demonstrating the strong value proposition a listing on the Amex provides.

Yelena Isinbayeva

I may not stay in Russia all the time but I'm still based in Volgograd and I don't have plans to move abroad permanently, at least for now.

Gloria Lee

I really wanted to go abroad to South Korea, the country of my heritage, in order to increase my fluency in the language and really become immersed in the culture, ... This experience would be perfect, I thought to myself, and I applied.

Renato Turano

I hope Italians get to know how important the Italian community abroad is to Italy.

Michael Robinson

Joe has complete control of this team, honestly.

Tommy Russell

It can be labor intensive. But with any industry, machines make it possible to complete the job fastest and make it less stressful on the employees. We've been integrating these machines into our repairs a little at a time the past 20 years or so.

Jim Tressel

He's a dynamic young man. He loves to compete. He's working to become a complete quarterback.

Ben Howland

He's a complete player. He is going to be an excellent pro and he could be playing for the Sonics right now just as much as for the Huskies.

Ron Hassey

He's a guy that wants to be the leader and wants to take complete control, which is what you want in a catcher, and what we have in ours.

Roland Fite

(Hernandez) produced for us. He did very well. He didn't give up anything. There was a part where it seemed like he lost his cool, but other than that I had complete confidence in him.

Tim Sandidge

He said I could help out in spots, defending the run and stuff like that, and that made me feel like he didn't really think I was a complete player.

Sufjan Stevens

I think the implausibility in some ways redeems me from having to complete it.

Angela Jackson

We just have to be more consistent. We have to start playing a complete game. We can't play 35 minutes and expect to win. We have to go the full 40 minutes in order to be successful.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Rob Willmann

It was a wonderful, wonderful time to live in Rome. The educational opportunity was multiplied tenfold due to the variety of cultures and languages.

Virada Nirapathpongporn

That trip was kind of different because I'm not used to being out west. Then I come back to the East Coast, and the Midwest trip was different from the Northeast. It's good to travel and see the different cultures around the country.

Edward Sapir

During the more than four hundred years that have elapsed since the discovery of America, the native cultures have naturally not been static.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Gloria Steinem

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Henri Bergson

The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods

John Burnside

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

Lysander Spooner

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

Sathya Baba

At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Omar Bongo

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Tim Horan

None of the global joint ventures have been able to execute.

Monica Crowley

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

William Gray

Small sea-surface temperature changes, there's no theory why they should make for more storms. Observations verify that. When we look back in a global point of view, in the last thirty years, there hasn't been a pick up in storms.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert G. Allen

It's priced much too low, ... That's disappointing to you, and it's totally unacceptable to us. The leadership of AT&T has no greater priority than to increase shareholder value.

Francois Heisbourg

It sounds very banal, but people have greater trust when politicians do politics and operational guys do operations.

Alan Cohen

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Meister Eckhart

God is greater than God.

Kathleen Blanco

The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It is just totally overwhelming, ... We need to save as many people as we can save, and that is our mission for today.

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Mukhtar Mai

I offer all the riches I've made out of the panchayat-enforced gang-rape to the president in return for justice.

Jim Payne

If you can only offer one section of Spanish V it makes scheduling difficult.

Mario Puzo

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse (The Godfather)

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Jacque Fresco

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Ryan Tedder

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Virginia Foxx

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Wayne Dyer

If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.

Vendela Kirsebom

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

Rod Blagojevich

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Virginia Woolf

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

Sally Ride

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

W. C. Fields

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

James Purefoy

I have to travel a lot for work.

Jose Saramago

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Robert Hathaway

It's traveling very, very fast. It can penetrate you pretty good.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Colleen Hanabusa

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.