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.

Pico Iyer

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

Michael Eisner

We have the assets, we have the management, we have the size to chart our own course, ... I think we will be very successful.

Craig Benson

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

Dave Heineman

You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.

Dave Shoji

You don't coach to win necessarily. You'd like to win, but you need to see most of your players, especially the ones competing for starting positions. This is the start of evaluation for next fall. We'll establish a depth chart starting now.

Kevin Allen

I think I was told later that people mentioned that they were heroes for what was done. I might be mistaken, but I thought the charter mandated that we investigate possible misconduct.

John Roberts

I will try to ensure, in the discharge of my responsibilities, that, with the help of my colleagues, I can pass on to my children's generation a charter of self-government as strong and as vibrant as the one that Chief Justice Rehnquist passed on to us.

Joe Glenn

I think our starters are named, pretty much. I think our depth chart is just about how you'd see it.

Kevin Dillon

We are being told there is a company ? and they have not been identified ? that wants to operate a charter for a company outing this spring. They don?t want to go to Logan.

Kyle Lohse

That was terrible execution at that time. Things weren't going my way, and that capped it off right there.

Greg Robinson

We have to worry about getting better. That's the name of the game for us right now. The execution is better. I think (fans are) going to see a more experienced football team than they've seen at this time last year.

Rick Carlisle

We've had great execution in the last two games; we won one and lost another. These types of one-possession games come in waves. The way our team is set up, we have players that can make plays.

David Patrick

I think it will come down to half-court execution. I don't look for a high-scoring affair.

Bill Winters

We have not invested in our franchises ... as aggressively as others or as aggressively as we should have. And we've had some execution misses.

Terry Ennis

I was very pleased with the execution of the offense. They were very crisp tonight.

Rodney Barker

I was very happy at that time because I had had a few minutes after the execution to really see what I felt inside. And I felt like the 14 years that she's been down here has done me no justice.

Tom Izzo

I was very disappointed in our execution and some of our guard play. Maybe we were a little fatigued. We were short on a lot of shots.

Doc Rivers

I was happy. I was proud of our young guys. They just kept fighting. I was using it to teach execution to young guys.

Jason Maynard

The acquisition has effectively expanded Red Hat's market opportunity in one of the fastest growing sectors of software.

Sean Whalen

That was the first time she's swam it this year and it's the fastest on your team this year.

Matt Richardson

We just didn't hit it. She may be the fastest pitcher we've seen so far.

Paul Edwards

Wind is the fastest growing source of power generation in the world and we think Manitoba can be a world leader in the development of wind power.

Frank Spindler

We are introducing ... 12 new processors for every mobile PC segment, including the fastest processor.

Richard Boucher

We are interested in the fastest return of the airplane. We think that is in China's interest as well as ours.

Steve Spurrier

We were just talking about who was the fastest in uniform, and I said Mike West. He got a good jump and he was gone. That's why we've got him at receiver. We're just teaching him how to run routes now.

Michigan State

On the field, he's the fastest kid I've seen in person. I wish I hadn't seen him in person.

Todd Bodine

I'm a little surprised. I was struggling earlier. It's hard not to make a mistake. I was hoping to at least back up my time from the first run, but we'll take it. We're here for fun, but if we're not the fastest we're mad.

Idina Menzel

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Bethany Hamilton

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Mike Maroth

The 21-loss thing is probably always going to be mentioned next to my name, but I'm glad the focus is off of that.

Marvin Cohen

That was the general focus of what we did. I think we were right.

Chad Kison

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.

Brian Kernighan

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

Marc Grunert

Long before they ever get to the point they need to be taken out from the standpoint of a structural deficiency, they end up being replaced because of a functional deficiency.

Tom Saxton

I think we got a lot of good robots this year that are functional robots.

James Huang

Our mainland policies remain the same. We still hope the two sides can sit down and make some breakthroughs in functional talks.

Martha Stewart

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

David Greenwood

What we're suggesting here is we have a good uniform, plentiful supply of clean, young functional islet cells.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Lalit Modi

The BCCI website will be functional within a month's time featuring the world's first 'Live Radio Scorecard'. The website will also post the match highlights after the day's play.

Marguerite Young

I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle East... all the ladies who went to the Middle East. I'd like to go myself. I didn't invent anything in my book. I didn't need to.

Ben Elliot

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Alan Furst

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Joseph Estrada

Why would they include me in that mess? I know nothing about issues involving him,

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Chris Ahearn

We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means, ... What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Jamie Rodriguez

We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

Gerald Grinstein

Without Atlanta, there would not be a Delta. And without a Delta, there would not be the same Atlanta. You could say we are in a mutual nonaggression pact.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Jane Goodall

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Hamilton

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

O. J. Simpson

Resilience is really about collaboration and mutual understanding,

Craig Woker

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

Ted Menzies

I think you're going to see a totally different rapport with the Americans, rather than name-calling. I think it'll be a treatment of mutual respect.

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

M. Wolfe

We are rating UPS 'attractive,' ... Our price target on this stock is $70; it's at about $56 right now.

Frank Verrastro

My sense is there's going be another price spike.

Kay Johnston

I feel they raised the price too much at one time. They should have done it a little at a time.

Allen Sinai

I don't think we have price stability any more.

Roy Turner

I don't think price gouging is going on here.

Dan Niles

For those who thought the price war was aggressive, you haven't seen anything yet.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Petra Nemcova

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Charlie Gilson

We're working on a Web site right now.

William Heine

We're really trying to make it more useful. We want to make the Web site a window to Monmouth County.

Watson Okubo

Unfortunately, our Web site is not where we want it to be.

Robert Austin

One of the first and most important steps that a student can do is visit the Web site of the university.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Josh Pais

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.