Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott McCallum

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Helen Hudson

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

Bruce Cleveland

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers.

Karen Bonaudi

We wanted to see if it generated any interest at all. So the next one is where we will have a real full agenda of different participants in transportation. The people we want to attract are the people interested in hearing from the providers of transportation and the users, and we expect a real interactive give and take session there.

Sreedharan Pillai

Congress does not have an agenda of its own in these states and is following the agenda set by the CPI-M.

Roger Thomas

To be honest, we were shocked. There was nothing on our agenda indicating we would even discuss the opener below Point Arena.

Ifzal Ali

Asia is cruising at a fairly fast clip but there are certain clouds on the horizon.

Zhang Yadong

Our confidence are not based on the performances at the recent National Games and East Asian Games, but come from the disappointments over the last few years, like in Athens and at this year's worlds,

Alexis Herman

Of greatest concern to me is the relationship of the manufacturing sector to the Asian market and the need to bring stability to that area,

George Robertson

North America, Europe and countries of Central Asia are now part of a political community that is unprecedented in its breadth, in its inclusiveness, and in its capacity to work together,

Nick Carter

After the Backstreet Boys' last Asian tour, everyone was taking a couple months off. Instead of taking the time off, I decided to write. I was just going to be in the studio and maybe start building something on my own, just to see what it sounded like - to see if I was even capable.

David Thurtell

Oil could ease back a bit today, though the hurricane season runs into November so we're not out of the woods yet. Asian demand is still pretty strong, so we're likely to see some buying if it goes much below $60.

Sam Bhavnani

Dell has not seen the success in China that it's seen in the U.S., and now its top two China guys are gone. It's a crushing blow for Dell in Asia in the same way Johnny Damon signing with the Yankees hurts the Red Sox's chances this year.

Jeffrey Sachs

Development can really work everywhere. But most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Central Asia face obstacles.

James Cayne

Despite the Asian economic crisis, we continued to find opportunities in the Far East, ... We attribute the record results for the quarter and the fiscal year to strength in all of the firm's core businesses.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Jaye Morency

Companies have to bring down their 2003 numbers. They're still too high.

Luther Head

Coach has had the confidence to put me in. I'm trying to go out and bring some energy.

Lauren Bell

Coming off the bench, you see how they're playing and how you can make an impact. We learn from our teammates, and then we bring intensity to the game.

Bobby Cox

Devine's been shooting lights out down there. The past week or so I kept hearing reports. We were trying to wait until September 1 (when rosters expand) and then bring him up.

Bill Belichick

He's got a very good complement of skills,

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Pattie Boyd

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

Ashton Whidden

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Albert Camus

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Sylvester Stallone

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

Ross Perot

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Rush Limbaugh

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

Susan Cheever

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Dolly Parton

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

Crystal Gayle

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Ricky Martin

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

T. Harv Eker

Until you show you can handle what you’ve got, you won’t get any more!

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Gene Fowler

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Joseph Addison

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

James Russell Lowell

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Bradley Whitford

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.