Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Stevens

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

Wes Anderson

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Charles Howell

The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

Brett Ratner

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

Brandon Sanderson

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Marcus Buckingham

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

Eugene Fama

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

Frank Herbert

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Henry Ford

Whatever you resist will persist.

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Maurice Maeterlinck

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

David Weinberger

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Cindy Sheehan

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

Bob Holthus

He wasn't taking any deep breaths when he came back. He's a dead-fit horse.

John Fithian

I'm confident in our summer, and that we'll get a lead over last year. If there's a question, it's whether we can hold it when we get to October and November. Then we're holding our breaths a little.

Becky Chittom

There was no color in his face, but once I was able to get some breaths in him the color started to come back.