Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Gin Wigmore

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

Zac Efron

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

Richard Chu

The overriding issue is on getting the channel and distribution model in shape,

Denis Leary

Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'

Nash Grier

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

Issam Ghazawi

The appropriate channel is for the accusations to come through the court and for the lawyers to receive a copy of the indictment.

Ted Koppel

The 10 of us are enormously excited to be at a place that wants nothing more than to produce the kind of television journalism that focuses on issues that matter to the largest number of people. We look forward to creating quality programming that provides the in-depth information for which Discovery Channel is known.

Steve Bartlett

We have worked with our channel partners on these changes, and most of them were driven by the channel.

Mia Wasikowska

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Jim Hamilton

The announcement is really just setting the stage for a new era in process color. Customers prefer incremental change. They don't like to take big steps.

Jeff Garcia

We have an entire team dedicated to ensuring that the needs of our Marketing Planner customers are exceeded.

Jim Henderson

We have always offered free delivery to our customers.

Stuart Rose

We have already received such positive feedback from customers we will be extending the range further this autumn.

Martin George

We have worked very hard on efficiency and productivity (so) we can put lower fares in the market place, give customers better value for money and make money,

David Hillenbrand

We have to understand who our customers are,

Bill Newman

We have three dedicated lines just to handle the calls. Once the drivers learn their routes and the customers become familiar with their pickup days, then the problem will go away.

Mike Moore

We were hired by customers to get out of their contracts. It showed what a difficult industry this is to understand.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

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

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Beverly Thomas

We realize that not every program is going to be at the top of the list. Different programs have different appeals. We try to have something that everyone will enjoy.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.