Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Frauenfelder

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

Bill Walsh

Joe might have been more active and quicker on his feet,

Janice Jackson

John is active here in our Devon Club, which he was president of at one time. He and his wife would attend a lot of the dances here.

Fred Taylor

I suspect that Venus is very volcanically active but we don't know that for certain,

Seth Shostak

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.

Rich Galen

Having their fingers burned, they're being more active in making sure the Hill knows.

Steve Robertson

He should have had a seamless transition from active duty to the VA. There was a disconnect. The VA should have been aware of his case and awarded him a disability. It shouldn't have happened until a decision was made.

Craig Holman

His name keeps coming up all the time in all the meetings I'm going to. His name keeps coming all the time, so I presume he's very active working with the senators.

Tom Glavine

His was more active and repetitive than mine,

Orlando Early

Jordan Payne is an outstanding addition to our program. He is a big-time scorer who can play either guard spot and is a coach on the floor. We feel he gives us an added dimension that we did not have last season and are expecting big things from Jordan next year.

Eugene Fram

It added panache to the city - and upstate New York needs that. But if your market doesn't even know about you or can't see the benefit of using your service, you're dead in the water before you begin.

Ruth Frechman

Ground oatmeal can be added to any food.

Matt Kilcullen

Going in we wanted to solidify each position on our team. We feel like we have done that with these guys. We added athletic ability, talent and size - areas we needed to address. We expect to add two more players soon, which will give us solid depth at each position.

Lee Scott

We're pleased our trend of year-over-year increases in sales and net income continues. We added more than seven billion dollars in sales in the quarter and ended the year strong.

Flip Saunders

When he's got his legs, what he can do, he can defend in the post with his feet. He can use his quickness and play different angles in the post and not have to rely on totally fronting and totally just playing behind. He gives you an added dimension defensively to do some things.

Robert Nemiroff

I think that a lot of these would look great in a gallery. They are very different, there's lot of different colors, and contrasts, textures and they have the added bonus of being scientifically interesting.

Groucho Marx

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.

Donald E. Graham

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Bruce Nelson

Just walking on board brings up a lot of wonderful memories.

Mohamed ElBaradei

It also makes it very clear that should any serious failures come to light in the future, these will be taken by the board with the seriousness that it deserves.

Joan Maloney

I actually submitted several different designs, but the board unanimously voted for the photographic images.

Billy Donovan

I thought we played well on the defensive end to only be down at 11 at the half with the way we shot the ball. As well as we played defensively in the first half, we didn't do the things we needed to on the boards and on defense in the second half.

David Wasinger

It is a great honor and privilege to serve on the Board of Curators.

Carol Comeau

It is a lot of money for a school board election. But she must have felt, due to the competition, that it was necessary.

Steve Johnson

I think the job of the executive board is to support and elect Republicans, ... Instead, they've chosen to focus on the one issue that most divides us.

Suanne Sines

I think the qualifications are fine. I think you definitely need to have elected board members from the community. We need to get control of our public schools back into the hands of the public.

Ruth Cisero

He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house all the time.

John Oxenham

To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

Roberto Heras

The key has been the time trial in Lloret, where the first part favoured me and there were no differences, but in the second, Menchov extracted time. Then, he defended itself very well in the mountains, though these climbs were not excessively hard and a strong guy can't be dropped.

Arthur Clough

And not by eastern windows only, / When daylight comes, comes in the light, / In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, / But westward, look, the land is bright.

Elbert Hubbard

Success consists in the climb.

Steve Truglia

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

David Berry

The first thing we do is we get ice and we mix up a big cooler of Gatorade and these guys drink Gatorade and water.

Jon Gruden

It was actually quite refreshing, really, to have a cooler atmosphere,

Peter Jennings

The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.

Anna Torv

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Dennis McAlpine

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

David Thompson

I think it's very likely that these costs will be passed on to consumers.

Michael Dortch

HP's latest earnings are a Valentine to shareholders, and to Mark Hurd and his team. Hurd has done a good job focusing on the basics, getting costs and expenses down and morale up.

John Challenger

Retailers are being forced to turn into discounters at all levels, and that early transformation to a discounting posture is putting great pressure on profits. Retailers make a good percentage of their profitability in the last two months of the year. This year those earnings are going to be under real pressure. They'll be fighting to keep costs down.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Phil Morris

In the UK costs about 50 pounds, about 100-dollars to fill up at home.

Tom Baker

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Richard Aboulafia

I don't know which is more bloated, the production expectations or the demand expectations.

John Hamm

We can do what we can do to make sure people aren't being gouged; that the price is fair and is being determined by demand and not gouging,

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Ann Marsh

I'm not filling up, I'm only getting $10, then I'll go somewhere else when I have the time where it's not as expensive.

Laura Brown

They were down five games in the second. They did a good job of filling that spot for us today.

John McGee

It's not Kathy filling Mark's shoes. It's a different kind of shoe.

John McKenna

You can't just keep filling landfills with stuff when there is a use for it.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Sanaa Lathan

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.

Tom Rath

Never underestimate the long-term influence of filling others' buckets.

Robert Arnold

She sets our standards. She's great. Filling her spot is going to be hard.

Beth McNamara

One of our goalies is out sick and our other goalie Jordan McCormack was filling in and she did a great job.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

Don Garber

In the immediate and long-term future, today's news will prove to be a historical turning point for the sport. These recent developments further solidify soccer's standing and value as a major television property in the United States with even greater future potential.

Craig Cook

The further away from the ski hill you stay, the better the price and the accommodations.

Bruce Steinberg

A further deterioration in the labor market is inevitable.

Michael Novak

That just further underscores that this is not authorized.

Dave McAlindin

That may or may not further your goal.

Chris Davis

It's something that really needs to be resolved to seek further new development.

James Moore

Support remains pegged at $485/oz, while moves back towards $500/oz are likely to prompt further long liquidation.

Chris Christensen

It can?t be like this forever. Just the other day a gas station opened in the neighborhood. Every day it gets better.

Jerry Lambert

Here you're at the mercy of the gas companies.

E. O. Wilson

I think we kind of ran out of gas at the end.

Chris McCarty

I think a lot of it will be tied to housing. Gas prices are ticking back up, and they are higher than they were the same time last year.

Michael Carter

I think this is just a token gesture, ... Gas prices are going to keep going up in the future.

J. Horton

I think that they're going to run out of gas if they're not careful. It would be worse to run out than it would be to have plenty of high-priced gas.

Manny Fernandez

Hopefully, we have enough gas in the tank to surprise some teams. There are a lot of things we need to work on, but these are points that we need.

Bob Miller

In the second half we just didn't have enough gas in the tank.

Vladimir Ivanov

If nothing else interferes, the first gas will be pumped on Sunday.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Gregory Klump

In general, the higher end of the market is holding up much better than the lower end.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Stacy Stewart

Some people thought the hurricane season was over. It's not.

Mark Goodman

It was the (strangest) hurricane we've seen in a long time.

Bob Rose

This is going to be one very nasty, mean hurricane when it strikes land.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

This is because of Hurricane Ivan and some problems in other places,

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Herschelle Gibbs

It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my natural game, which they didn't make too easy. We didn't get enough partnerships together, like they did in their first innings.

Mickey Mantle

All I had was natural ability.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

Terry Pratchett

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Tony Couture

We passed very well throughout and we communicated well.

Bill Engvall

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.

Martin Bashir

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Pedro Mart

It worked for me, ... And now it's paying off for someone else.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Joe Schmidt

We're paying police professionals to baby-sit rich kids.

Dale Friedman

We simply have got to start paying for people to do that kind of work,

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Steve Owens

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Jonathan Lewis

The season is not lost. We're still Virginia Tech.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Patrick Rice

As the season went on, she got better and better.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Jose Vidro

I haven't had an MRI yet, so I don't know what the situation is.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

John Tortorella

Sure I am (concerned). We're in a tough situation here. I'm not going to sit here and (lie) to you.

Chandra Muzaffar

It's back to square one. I don't think the situation is getting better.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Hoagy Carmichael

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

Susan Davis

They won't be stuck in a storage box. They're going to get a new life.

Asim Jihad

We are emptying the storage now so that they refinery does not suffocate. But it is still very little and limited.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

Philip Green

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Wordsworth

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Will Durant

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Sarah Rees Brennan

The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.

Sarah Silverman

People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.

Sarah Silverman

Summer camp: the second worst camp for Jews.

Harvey Korman

Tape Seinfeld for me.

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!

Patti Hansen

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

Gregory Hines

I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center. But I'll be there.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Samuel Beckett

The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.

W. H. Auden

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

Robert Fitzgerald

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Rudyard Kipling

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Morgan Freeman

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Kelley Armstrong

On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

Khaled Hosseini

Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

James Joyce

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.