Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bai Ling

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Aimee Mullins

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

Bruce McCulloch

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very.

Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Earl Nightingale

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Donald Knuth

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

Cynthia McKinney

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

Clint Eastwood

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

Ralph Nader

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

Peter Drucker

In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

Ian Bremmer

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

Trini Lopez

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

Ken Buck

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

Dennis Kucinich

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Elizabeth Bowen

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Andrea Bocelli

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

Andrea Bocelli

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

Don DeLillo

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.