Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Bob Baker

Anything that would reduce standards, we would have a serious concern about. We certainly don't want to reduce the qualifications it takes to become a police officer.

Dan Chu

Anything that levels the playing field for different people--that's going to be good for everyone, but certainly good for us as well.

George Williams

Any step in the right direction is certainly positive, ... Certainly, we'd have liked to have seen more, but with the understanding the Forest Service has made a move in a positive direction, we just hope we can continue to move in that direction.

John Cahill

Any of these (five teams) on their day could win the grand final and we're certainly happy to be here (finals).

Rupert Murdoch

The sky is the limit, ... Certainly we would see revenue over $US500 million (and) we would hope $US1 billion. But it will probably be somewhere in between there.

Ben Cunningham

The situation certainly has improved, no question about it.

Tim Sheldon

Offensively, we're working. We have a team concept going. We're working hard. They surprised me a little bit. I thought this was going to be a struggle, especially early on and it's cold. But they surprised me pleasantly.

Keni Thomas

Some (songs) were happy. Some were sad. Some were pretty motivational and some were just rockin'. It was a concept record, because we knew that you wouldn't be able to do this for the rest of your career.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

David Soul

I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

Jerry Calhoun

During these negotiations, there has been a lot of discussion about pensions. What hasn't received much discussion is the concept of balance,

Jon Kelly

Even kids as young as nine years are learning about gambling. They may not be gambling with money, but they're learning concepts of gambling. They see it.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Ken Lee

Demand has strengthened since July because of tax cuts and incredibly low unemployment. Sales at our stores were about 5 percent higher than the same time a year earlier.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Mark Vitner

Some folks will be quick to jump on this morning's data as a sure sign that the next move by the Fed will be to cut interest rates. Such talk is still way too premature.

Bill Belichick

So we are onto Jacksonville and we've got our work cut out for us there. Jacksonville is a tough football team. They are physically tough and mentally tough.

Kazunori Jinnai

Speculation mounted for a cut in Toshiba's earnings forecast, and the stock's fall sent other major electronics makers lower.

Alan Belcher

Now I'm going to go home and cut some more.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Edward Herrmann

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Marianne Bretschneider

We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together.

Jeremy Burk

The only way to go from here is up, and all the girls agree. We've got a great squad and all of the girls are very experienced at golf.

Stephen Lenz

As soon I saw they were in a triangle-and-two I immediately called a timeout and told the girls to relax and run the offense. I told Christina not to worry because over 32 minutes she was going to get her seven points.

Pierce Brown

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

Paul Butcher

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

Stacy Phillips

We are taking all the steps that are appropriate to reach our goals for the season. The girls have done a phenomenal job. These wins were all about them.

Jamie Pinckard

We are still in the learning stages. I think some of the girls are starting to see how much they have to work to get better.

Michael Fisher

That's going to be a big piece of (the lawsuit).

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Grant Koford

There's no silver bullet, there's no silver lining. But it's another piece of the puzzle we're trying to put together.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Jeff Davis

They always do that, ... because they think we're going to start some kind of trouble with him.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.