Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Andy Hertzfeld

Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Vinton Cerf

Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.

Vinton Cerf

People need to be exposed to what the various problems are in various parts of the business. And you can become isolated from that in a large company.

Vint Cerf

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Vint Cerf

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

Mariah Carey

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Hugo Gernsback

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Wilbur Wright

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Susan Strasberg

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

Quincy Jones

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

Mark Twain

The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.

Gavin Prout

I think after the 7-2 lead we got a little lackadaisical. We kind of rode the lead and it diminished pretty quickly. Then people start seizing up when the opportunity comes. Those are the types of things where you need to take control and take some leadership, and I'll take full bore for that.

J. Tillman

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Nicholas Haslam

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Michael Keaton

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

J. C. Watts

The U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders right now, and there is little to no slack left in the economy.

Gary Cole

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

James Thurber

The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

Carol Burnett

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

Bob Gainey

It seems taking a lead is an important part of a recipe that works most often. Early in the series will be a place either team will be looking for an advantage. It's about getting into that rhythm where all cylinders are firing.

Ryan Miller

We're starting to feel like we're hitting on the right cylinders again.

Dmitri Young

When we have our cylinders going, we can hit with anybody.

Mark James

We felt like the tide was about to turn. We had to play on all cylinders for four quarters and I think we played on 2 cylinders for two quarters. And the two quarters where we didn't play on all cylinders, it showed.

John Haberman

We're going to have to be ready for Lamar because they're improving every week. We're going to have everything rolling on all cylinders when Lamar comes to town.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Saddam Hussein

I just wanted to be able to reach at least half of the show's estimated viewers.

David Orr

Initially, we estimated the number of people in need was about one million and we had reached about 50 percent of them. We've had a food security team in the field and they've revised the estimate up quite dramatically.

Val Charlton

The circumference of the fire is an estimated 50km.

John Challenger

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

Chris Evans

The Italian-based horse is worth somewhere around $10 million after winning six of seven major races and finishing second in the seventh. If he is going to win in Tokyo and perform like this next year, his value could reach an estimated $30 million.

Peter Piot

The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.

Terri Smith

They are estimated higher than what they will actually be,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Michael Voss

That's been the simple principle in a hundred years of football.

Bible Bible

The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Jim Bowers

I measured it this morning ... and there was about 13 inches on my back deck.

John Barrett

The laptop market is a mile wide and an inch deep.

James Roche

It was a 16 inch line, they make big holes, lot of water pressure washed it out.

John C. Maxwell

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Trent Reznor

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!