Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Poole

Our aim is to keep inflation, in general, down. If I had to pick a point, it is to keep these broad measures in a one to two percent range.

Rosette Rugamba

We decided in 2002 to aim to generate $100m in tourism receipts by 2010 by creating high-value and low-environmental impact experiences.

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Walt Drenth

We're very excited to be traveling with the entire team. Right now we want to see everyone compete and have fun and I think as the weather gets better we'll start to aim for national goals.

Ma Jun

What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.

O. Winston

What we aim to do is help you shoot the losers and double down on the winners. If we can help you shoot the bottom ten percent that's holding you back so you can focus on what's important, there's tremendous upside in that.

Michael Howard

What Gordon Brown has done is attempt to sabotage this report before it is even published. We should allow Lord Turner to present his report and then debate his findings in a proper and constructive way and a way that will try to aim for consensus, but that is not Gordon Brown's way of doing things.

Jamil Moledina

Through this inaugural competition, GDC and the CG Society aim to promote the professional development and recognition of the art and artists of games. We are excited to focus on rewarding excellence in original art, since that dovetails with the focus of the GDC to provoke creativity in all elements of game creation.

Hamid Awaluddin

We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

Whoopi Goldberg

Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Jeremy Mayfield

We're going way too fast here, it's not right.

Monique Currie

We usually get a lot things going with our fast break. We weren't able to do that tonight.

Gareth Davis

We are trying to grow the international side as fast as possible and this side is looking very promising,

Robert Browning Hamilton

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

W. S. Gilbert

I have sparred with John before and I knew he was a fast kid who would stick and move well. I just kept telling myself to keep going forward and throwing my punches. I just kept my head moving and kept trying to hit him as hard as I could.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Michael Cunningham

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Irving Stone

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Ellen Smith

Miners only have a one-hour supply of oxygen underground, but mine safety teams can be located up to two hours away. That's not very comforting.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

George Steiner

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Haley Joel Osment

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Florence King

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Chris Eyre

bedroll to bedroll about the size of a single sleeping bag.

Candace Bushnell

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.