Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannibal Buress

Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants 'cause I'm a goddamn adult. And I've mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that's for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

Dan McManamon

Last week was good for my confidence. I'm in really, really good shape and I'm healthy. And when I'm healthy, I improve a lot.

Colin Morton

Market confidence towards savings products seems to have returned. As a result, the life insurance sector is getting back on track after a couple of tough years.

Anna Johnson

I wonder what marriage does to a woman. I worry about role playing and loss of confidence and having to enact weird domestic rituals in order to be a good wife.

Aaron Lynn

I was extremely impressed with Lauren Miller. She finally had a more consistent match. I think this will be very good for her confidence heading into sectionals.

Randall Juip

It engenders a very low level of confidence that the state will fulfill its responsibility to the citizens.

Grant Wistrom

I think so. I think they have a lot of confidence in what he's doing.

Marcus Williams

We just did a great job. The locker room hasn't been like this in I don't know how long. Our confidence is back now.

Henry David Thoreau

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Helen Fisher

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

Helen Fisher

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

James Hansen

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences , in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.

George Friedman

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

John Brunner

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

Michael Sheldon

The key for next week is that the economic data show strong growth and only moderate inflation.

Rich Templin

The unemployment rate is given a little too much primacy as an indicator of overall economic health. All of our data seem to indicate the quality is not there.

Russ Williams

You've got to have some data to back up what your intuition tells you is the truth.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Robert Wiley

We won't risk him. That's the most important thing,

Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

David Jeremiah

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Connie Britton

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

Colin Firth

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

Daniel Libeskind

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

David Morrison

We understand the risk from this object, and while it's small, it's not zero,

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!