Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

Aaron Stiegeler

Cody continued to run the ball hard and he had several carries of between 15 and 20 yards. He averaged about six yards a pop. Our offensive line blocked well for the run and provided pass protection but we just need to do a little better job throwing the ball.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Lewis Ward

This is an opportunity to get the average Joe who's never downloaded a song on his PC. At $2.50 (per song), as long as it's easy to do and sounds like CD-quality, I think a lot of people are not going to balk at the $2.50 price point.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Teri Gault

Your biggest monthly expense is usually your mortgage or your rent. Second is usually groceries for an average American family.

Buck Showalter

You probably average about five spots that teams are trying to shake out, where you can be swayed one way or another.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Andy Jados

North is a very good team. They're very athletic. They do a real good job of pressuring the ball. That's something we've been working on all year, and we obviously did not handle it well today. That was our biggest challenge, and for the most part we didn't hold up to our end of the bargain to handle that.

Alice Rivlin

The most nervous-making point at the moment is Brazil, ... The international economy rallied around Brazil and hopes very much the Brazilians will be able to fulfill their part of the bargain with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and keep their economy from going under.

Peter Schiff

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Paul Diamond

Technology was way oversold. This is some bargain hunting,

Joe Ridout

You might wind up with a real bargain or you might wind up with nothing.

Ron Lind

We're hearing rumors at this point. We sent off a letter last week to the company demanding to know if the rumors are true, and if they're true, they need to bargain with us on the effect.

Yanic Perreault

We'll have to see what all the options are before anything gets decided. But hockey is different today. The new (collective bargaining agreement) makes things much different.

Bobby Johns

Diversity should not be part of the bargaining process,

Heather Dougherty

Online retailers continue to re-create the offline world on the Internet. People come out to the stores the day after Christmas looking for bargains. Now a natural part of shopping is to first poke around online. Some shoppers might see bargains online and decide they don't have to fight the crowds in the malls.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Dominic Monaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

John Meyers

There has always been a choice out there. It's a matter of taking the time to see what's available. You want to be sure it's a company that's really dedicated to insurance.

Danny Morrison

There had to be a moment when he was compromised. He would have had to make a choice between living with the consequences of what they were going to expose about him or deciding to enter into a pact with people who had inflicted so much suffering on his own community, his friends, himself.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

We are a nuclear country. The (West) knows it has no other choice but to negotiate.

Doug Wright

We are still on standby, ... With the storm this close off the coast, we have no choice. Forecasters are predicting it will head off to the northeast, but if it turns our way we will have very little time to notify residents.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Baltasar Gracian

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Elif Safak

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

Charles Bukowski

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

Ed Miliband

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

E. L. Konigsburg

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Deepak Chopra

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Thornton Wilder

All excellence is equally difficult.

Tom Peters

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Tom Peters

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Tom Peters

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Seth Godin

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Lisa Randall

The stuff we're really famous for was really lucky in a way.

Daisy Ridley

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

Jay Leno

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

M. Hopper

Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if I know anything about famous musicians, most of them will be sitting around muttering and grumbling and bitching about all the others.

Adrienne Bailon

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

Anne Hathaway

I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.

Vance Stevens

There's not a whole lot of famous people around here.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Luis Polar

We want to follow in the footsteps of what's been done. We want to be able to do in-depth feature stories - to grow into the crux of matters in our valley, to give a snapshot of what's happening throughout the region.

George Benson

We are trying to schedule music every other Saturday night from 7 to 10 p.m. We like to feature local talent.

Mark Hooker

musical theatre. The show features 15 feel-good songs celebrating the trials and tribulations of being naked.

Chris Winter

By 2010, ... it could be possible to tell a system you want a word-processor with particular features and it will be programmed for you automatically.

Rick Sherlund

Microsoft needs to show all the 'eye candy' features that reside in Vista.

Shaun Connolly

If you get a feature no one wants, it tends to get spit out by the organism.

Jeremy Fishbein

People can question what they want, but Jeff finds a way to score goals regardless of who he is playing. Whoever gets him will be really happy. He always finds a way to succeed. He didn't start out getting things handed to him, but he sure found his way.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Mike Mills

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

Howard Davidowitz

The nightmare goes on and when Wall Street finds that out, the stock price goes right back down,

Chris Johnson

All of the imagery, all of the symbolism of American hierarchy of what's viewed as powerful and desirable, really finds its most immediate symbol, in this case, in lacrosse players.

Joss Whedon

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

Beyonce Knowles

They do get on but I'm a daddy's girl and that's what he finds so hard to let go of

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Coco Chanel

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

E. M. Forster

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Drake Bell

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Donella Meadows

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

Dodie Smith

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Andre Balazs

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Karen Friel

That doesn't matter. I would rather stay away from them this time of year.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Keira Knightley

I can't actually walk, but I can stand rather well.

Mike Scott

I'd rather have it cooler. It's much more comfortable for me when it's cold.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Confucius

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Anne Frank

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Matthew Henry

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Mignon McLaughlin

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Master P

I want to get rich and die old.

Mason Cooley

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.