Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Donald Trump

'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Leaving the board will relieve me of formal duties and give me more flexibility, but I still expect to spend as much time as possible with the extended family of Ford people and will gladly help the company and the board in any way I can.

Harold Levy

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Clyde Tombaugh

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Ben Elliot

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Rebel Wilson

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Frank Quattrone

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Morris Almond

The 36 points, I wasn't surprised with it being an overtime game. I'm only averaging four or five boards a night so the double-double-I'll take any day.

Neelie Kroes

The payment cards industry in Europe remains national and some local players are preventing competition from developing.

David H. Murdock

I expend a lot of energy in my 50-60 minutes of cardio and strength training every day.

Ashley Tisdale

I like to do a lot of cardio.

Gerry Gerlach

That was her old system ? she didn't need a computer. We used to use thousands of those cards for ordering. She always had that dedication to the business.

Mary Smith

That was a leap year, and he didn't run away. We're enjoying being with each other in our retirement. We never get bored. We play cards together, do crosswords and he likes to cook.

Jack Rio

We can strengthen ourselves to be a team that's resting on Wild Card weekend and earning a home playoff game to advance. If you do that, that's a significant step toward the ultimate goal of winning a world championship. It doesn't guarantee anything, but to me, that's next on the wish list.

Kevin Coates

You are doing 16 hours a day and trying to catch sleep when you can, and then you get a card like this. I carried this card with me, and it is going to stay with me.

Rachel Bolton

Valentine's Day is the second largest holiday for giving greeting cards after Christmas.

Ryan Holmes

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

Jeff Bong

We don't solicit donations, and there are other organizations that people can donate to and other discount retailers they can shop at.

Al Becker

We are seeing some very heavy loads this month. It's a little early to predict the summer, but we're seeing encouraging signs. The problem the industry has is there's a lot of discount fares, and so we're not making money.

Tom Schrader

I wouldn't discount the likelihood that next week will be flat to lower. It's a holiday week, volume will be light, and after four up weeks we'll need a pause.

Wayne Johnson

I would have to characterize it as a substantial discount off the retail price,

Darius McDermott

I would argue...that if you use a discount broker you could do as well as a fund of funds.

Simon Wardell

It could be that it shuts down all of Shell's onshore operations in Nigeria. The markets are going to discount Nigerian production in the price of oil.

Gary Williams

He works, don't discount that. He plays hard every play he's on the court.

Mike Moran

We have no reason to discount those fears and we are not.

Andrew Neff

We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Reid Scott

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Sepp Blatter

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

Nancy Keenan

The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.

Dennis Hastert

The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.

John Snow

That will tee up the next major issue for the president ? broad-based tax reform,

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Spencer Stewart

That was a totally different team than the one we saw twice this season. They got a lot better and played a tough game.

Demond Garth

That was a stage down at Wallace State, and he played unreal.

Amy Pettibone

That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. We have played with the best. I look at the state rankings, and there aren't many that we haven't played. You've got to test your players.

Janis Pardy

We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays and can predict what they are going to do next.

Dee Brown

We could have played better. We didn't play our best, but we stuck it out and we won.

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.