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.

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Dean Coffland

That was huge. It didn't cost us the game, but we didn't bounce back after that.

Terry Francona

That was a long time ago. It's a different team. I've said so many times that last year doesn't matter. What matters to this team is how we bounce back tomorrow.

Paul Fassbender

We just didn't get any bounces. Whenever we tried to clear it, it would hit the glass and bounce out in the middle.

Frank Rossi

We had one of the poorest shooting nights of the season. We got down early and we were never able to bounce back. We made a little run at the end but there's only so much you can do.

John Hughs

We'll probably see a few more days of this but that's it. It looks more like an oversold bounce than anything more meaningful,

Tracy Bodi

We have them at our place. We'll have to take care of business in the meantime. We'll bounce back. These kids are winners.

Siedah Williams

You are going to have nights that you are not going to shoot as well as you would like. That is something that can be corrected overnight by getting a little extra shooting in. We have players that can do that, so we are going to bounce back quickly.

Tu Willingham

We've gotten ourselves in a tough predicament now. We'll see how we bounce back.

Rudy Gay

We have too many big games coming up. We have to let this one bounce off us and set our eyes on the next game.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Hugh Jackman

I think I was 5 and singing 'Camelot' on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We'd do our own productions. It wasn't until I was about 23 that I thought, 'I could give this a shot. I might as well do it.'

Robert Bennett

Judy did nothing that the New York Times did not want her to do. They encouraged her to stay in jail.

W. S. Gilbert

We are obviously encouraged that a market like this could be opening up for us.

John Whisenant

We encouraged them to come back instead of getting them down and holding them down like you would like. I'd like to have the last 3 or 4 minutes over. We got a little tight with the ball, and I was encouraging them to attack.

Ted Young

We encouraged our kids to get off to a good start. That really helped us last year and we thought it was important to do that.

Kunal Kapoor

We're also encouraged that Lyon and his team invest heavily in the shop's funds.

Cecilia Munoz

We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.

Dave Ramsey

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

Ashok Kumar

The picture doesn't look pretty. It looks like all the territories disappointed.

Dan Veru

The outlook looks better as the market looks to the next six, nine months.

Carl Safina

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

Carl Sagan

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Bill Bryson

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

Ashley Tisdale

Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.

Ashley Tisdale

My look is a very individual look. I love Pink, but I don't really dress like Pink.

Ashton Kutcher

Looks fade, don't get too attached.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Nancy Thompson

You can do just about anything outside that you would do inside.

Stephen Tanner

We really push the envelope. We think outside the box.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Antoine Fuqua

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Bertrand Russell

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Robert Kiyosaki

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.