Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Coby Karl

I sort of took a page out of his book. I don't think it would have affected (the team) too much, but I didn't want outside stories wandering around. I wanted the focus to be on our team and not some outside situation.

Jim Forbes

This is not a contract about big wage gains. The big issue is to make sure that people affected by plant closings are looked after.

Dee Boersma

All bands are not created equal. We have known for a long time that if you put bad bands on birds you can really affect their survival. Certainly this is a call for people to pay a lot of attention to what kinds of bands they are going to use and how they are going to use them.

John Davidson

You've seen how OPEC has had some discipline, and that's helped to support the price of oil, and maybe the gold players are seeing that if they use some discipline as well that that may also affect the gold price and their business.

Barry Hyman

Your first set of pre-announcements are usually your most dramatic and affect the market the most,

William Campbell

There could be a number of reasons why the number of voters is larger in one ward than the other - there could be more people who actually register, or there could be a discrepancy in the number of children, ... One thing that surprised me is that there have been some huge (housing) developments in the city that I figured would have charged the demographics, but that's not been the case.

Amy Wright

When I saw it was you, I felt safe. Before I knew it, you charged at me.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Paul Casey

I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Chris Cox

It would make sense to consider, and this is only under consideration, a committee that would be focused on the subject matter rather than on a corner of it within the jurisdiction of one of our committees,

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

Michele Aurella

If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.

Ian Michaels

It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Ransom Riggs

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

Seth Godin

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

John Templeton

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

Peter Charlton

But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Jill Scott

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

Eric Holder

I don't have any intention of resigning.

David Oman

Our intent is to work on it, take the time to do it well, obviously, but to do it with dispatch.

Richard House

It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.

Tom Lewand

We put the tag on Jeff Backus with the intention of keeping him here not only in 2006, but beyond.

Suzanne Collins

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Sigmund Freud

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Harold Prince

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

Harold Prince

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

James Daly

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

Gertrude Stein

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.