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.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Erik Jones

We don't even have any policies and procedures, yet.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Derek Walker

They've gutted all the programs to save the bay.

Thomas Burke

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

Tom Brookes

It will be similar to the licensing programs in the U.S..

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Iain Banks

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.