Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Ivar Giaever

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Geoff Hoon

I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.

Warren Farrell

I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

Wesley Clark

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Elizabeth Warren

There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

David A. Bednar

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

David Byrne

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

Philip Baggaley

The pilots are the last major labor group to reach a preliminary agreement (except for striking mechanics who have been replaced) and the largest source of labor savings being sought by the airline.

Colleen Stogsdill

That was a huge attraction for my husband. We've tried to do some catering out at our other place, but the kitchen is a lot smaller and it hasn't worked very well. (Ken) is excited to use exercise his culinary muscle.

Sebastian Faulks

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it.

Rainbow Rowell

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

Matt Passmore

We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

Gregory Benford

Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.

Mark McKinnon

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

Cathy Tamraz

Michael's attraction to the edge, coupled with his high energy, passion and business sense, is a rare combination.

Denny Rinehart

I think this group is well-connected. For some reason, there's some real help coming out of the halls this year, and I don't know what the attraction is.

Billy Kennedy

I'm so excited to be here at Murray State. For me, the biggest attraction of all is how the fans and students of Murray State are basketball crazy. I'm looking forward to experiencing it and continuing the great Racer tradition. I'm used to coming into a program and turning it around. This is one that I need to keep going and take it another step further.

Ben Carson

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Dennis Muren

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

Robert Herzfeld

The allegations are despicable, ... The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Raymond Carver

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Patrick Kavanagh

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

Tom Hickey

We've known that we've had a problem with unbundling. We just didn't know the extent of that problem.

Peter Capaldi

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

Paul Warner

will be vigorously prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Sonny Perdue

will be punished to the fullest extent possible.

Alan Greenspan

the pressure to enlarge the pool of skilled workers also requires that we strengthen the significant contributions of other types of training and educational programs, especially for those with lesser skills.

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Kaz Matsui

I think it was a meaningful day. Just because he retired, I don't think there's any lesser competition. I just want to be on my toes all the time.

Richard Harris

They often have a lesser curriculum, less challenges, less demands. And it's totally unfair to have these two different systems.

Meg White

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Beck

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Brendon Urie

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

Clint Black

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

Linda Ronstadt

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.

Mike Hargrove

We'll probably send him to the instructional league. I'm not sure, but we've been talking about it.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.