Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Imelda May

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Jim Taylor

The police car, which had its blue lights flashing, was responding to a serious large-scale disturbance nearby when it struck the man as he crossed the road to where a taxi was waiting for him.

Cecil Beaton

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

Jeff Marlow

The allure of the kind of blues that this town is known for is still here. If the crowd at one of these venues claps for me, that will be more satisfying than a venue in a large city.

Lord Byron

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; / And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, / When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Jason Chaffetz

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

Jeffrey Lichtman

That was the blueprint that each and every one of these cooperators followed, ... They know the government can be manipulated.

Rob Cohen

That whole thing with the dragonfly in the Blue Mountains, that really wasn't anything to do with Stealth , ... It could have been a movie about two people at a picnic making love in the woods. We were sort of caught in the middle of someone else's fight.

Ian Watson

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Val Kilmer

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Colin Morgan

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Reg Empey

The people are fed up with politicians and the cost of keeping this place (the assembly) open.

Andrew Alberts

The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.

Gary Hanson

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

John C. Calhoun

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

Gina Talamona

The antitrust division is looking into the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the music download industry.

Pete Carroll

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

LeBron James

We have the tiebreaker with everybody in our division right now (except Detroit). This was a must-win.

Charles Pyle

Typically school divisions will send a dozen or so individuals to something like this.

Alistair MacLeod

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Lester Funk

We have a huge rivalry with Highland, so the game was real intense with the fans. It was one of the most intense games of the season so far. It was a division game and a physical battle.

Bobby Bowden

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division. Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

Debra Teufel

We essentially already have gaming. It's in our backyard, whether we want it or not. We are outsourcing these gaming jobs.

Jerome Forneris

From a gaming standpoint, I have no interest and don't want any interest. I would hope we get a revitalized city.

Anthony Cabot

When I got here back in 1981, gaming law was limited to Nevada and New Jersey.

Pat Smith

Montana will just never be the large-scale Indian gaming place that you will see where tribes are next to major urban areas. You could have 300 machines (in a single casino), but no one's going to use them.

Alex Czajkowski

They are in the right marketplace and we know we can provide a multitude of entertaining gaming options for their readers and fans.

Dan Onorato

The only thing we know from these three is what they told us at their press conference. We need those offers to be reviewed by the independent Gaming Board. And after that review process, we may have a better view of all three of their proposals.

Adriana Martinez

We are a service-oriented state and immigrant labor has been good for gaming and construction.

Brian Gordon

It's an experienced group, particularly in the gaming sector. They understand the market.

Jeremy Schwartz

By eliminating the lost vestige of their hardcore gaming route they've essentially opened themselves up to a wider group of advertisers.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Martin Mull

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

Kathy Deck

We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory increases, something's got to give.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

E. Hicks

You all are going to have to lower that camera.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Christopher Mecray

My sense is that the stock is going to stabilize here. You get much lower than this and it starts to get to be real overreaction.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Steny Hoyer

What they have proposed will not offset Katrina. It will offset their tax cuts,

Paul Ballew

It varies by category, but it's a significant offset in many cases.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Linda Todd

At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Donald Judd

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Greek proverb

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

Judith Rodin

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.