Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ze Frank

YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

Marci Hamilton

The poll numbers are bad. Katrina is added to other failures. The moderate choices look better politically,

Lawrence Summers

The overarching global imperative to work to combat poverty ... must gain added urgency today when HIV-AIDS, conflict and other catastrophes are helping to reverse years of development gains in the poorest countries,

Sharon Treat

The overall trend for many years now is that drug prices go up substantially more than the rate of inflation, and that continues to be the case. Even though it's up less than in the previous quarter, it is still a substantial increase, and this is added on to increases from previous quarters.

David S. Goyer

Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

Victoria Strauss

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

Mike Coleman

The aim is to implement new technologies for added efficiency, not just for their own sake, or because they are the greatest wonder since sliced bread.

Robert Daggett

The acquisition of Lauri added confusion to what we do. We'd been making similar stuff for years and everybody knew how to make those products. We basically doubled the size of our product line in one fell swoop and the old way of relying on memory no longer worked.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

Stephen Toulouse

We're working on an update to Internet Explorer and that update is currently in our testing process and could come out as early as April. However there's no firm date.

Tom Hougaard

We are obviously expecting to a see a sea of red this morning. The selling has been relentless through the night and currently the Dow is being called down about 100 points.

Ed Watson

We are disappointed with the decision. We are currently considering the 88-page judgment and whether we appeal.

Newt Gingrich

I think Secretary Powell is an extraordinary figure and I think he's a very effective advocate, but I think he is currently presiding over an institution that's broken,

Ben Bernanke

I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a while to come,

Mary Wysong

I think I have a good pulse with what is currently going on in our schools.

Gene Collins

We have to stop this hate-mongering bureaucracy that we currently have.

Ellen Key

When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.

Carrie Underwood

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

Marc Friedman

We have a healthy learning curve process. We went to music school. We've all been trained since we were 6 or 7.

Rob Babcock

We've got some good young kids and it depends on their learning curves and how quickly they develop.

Andy Chaytor

With the curve having flattened for a few days in a row, people may have taken their money out of it. There's been big selling of the 30-year bond.

Calvin Maduro

My changeup, curve and sinker were good. I'm just waiting on the fastball. I need more velocity and I know it's going to come. After I take time off and start throwing again, there's a period when you work through the shoulder soreness. I'm at that point now. I'm right on schedule for the Classic. The fastball should be there for me in Puerto Rico.

James English

We didn't show a lot of patience with the curve ball, ... We just didn't get it done.

Ryan Caldwell

For me, the learning curve took off the last 30, 40 games. There was a lot of learning, but a lot had to do with coaching.

Alan Rowe

For those not very loaned up, a flattening yield curve could start crunching their margins.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Roger Altman

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Arthur Levitt

The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.

Bill Grant

That would be great. The more economic development you have, the better it is for the region.

Rainer Guntermann

We have a more mixed picture (and) that would have made some people rethink economic prospects maybe towards the end of the year.

Paul Hubbert

We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve.

Mike Schussler

We know that with a lot of the strikes, if they last only a day or three, we can make up that lost production. If it lasts a week or longer we make up only some of that production. That's when it starts having economic consequences.

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

will.i.am

Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.

Philip Barleggs

The outlook for the markets is pretty tricky. The Fed is nearly finished with its interest-rate hikes, but it's not there yet.

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Patrick Fearon

That would support the idea that the Fed can stop raising rates soon.

Bruce Steinbecker

That was the turning point of the game. We really fed off that play.

David King

We could feel the energy. It was a great thing having Kyle there, and our kids fed of Kyle being there.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled/ In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

Jack Malvey

We're not at the top. With the Fed still moving to 5.50 in our view, maybe at least 5.25 to 5.40 10-year yields would not be out of the question.

Warren Huff

We're working with funds where individuals are putting money into deals.

Bill Rocco

Those kinds of funds only work well for people who don't own a U.S. fund and who are keeping their portfolio simple.

Brian McQuade

Funds that are highly leveraged are risky and only pay off when the markets are up.

David Li

Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.

Koji Suzuki

Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo reflect records abroad.

John Brady

Funds and trend-followers who were short are getting in the market, and that?s why it is going up, too.

Matt Diersen

From the lending side of things, I have not heard of any shortage of funds for lending.

John Reilly

Hedge funds can be volatile and risky and we want to be sure to offer it to the right clientele. It's not for Ma and Pa Kettle.

Uwe Boll

If they invest in film funds they have zero on their account, so every movie must recoup money otherwise the investment didn't made sense.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Robert Philips

The overriding issue is are we going to get one more rate hike or several.

Aaron Robinson

We'll find 'em, ... They're in this drainage somewhere. We might have to hike our a's off, but we'll find 'em.

Kiesza

I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.

Marc Pado

We're not going to feel the impact of these rate hikes for quite some time.

Mike Malpede

The rate hike was widely expected, so it's been discounted.

Ram Bhagavatula

We look for a hike at every meeting next year.

Don Winslow

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

Sen. Constantine

People will be more likely to feel comfortable that they have been well represented. It's the right time, especially with all the hurricanes, all the rate hike requests.

Terry Jones

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

Arsene Wenger

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Ridley Scott

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

Tom Bradley

keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.

Paul Edinger

I think I proved in the preseason, kicking the last two weeks, that I could do it.

Bill Belichick

He's played safety. He's played in (the Dolphins') sub defense. He's played down in a linebacker type of role. He has some flexibility and has played in the kicking game.

Quintin Mikell

He'd been kicking low all day and we were getting pressure off that side,

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Phil Anselmo

I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I'm doing that, I'm kicking myself mentally.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Bertrand Russell

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

Tom Ridge

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,

William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

Avery Johnson

We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Hannes Smarason

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Keith Lichtman

The pricing was unbelievable, just when you think there is no such thing as a steal in New York.

David Larcher

The pricing that we got . . . was just so irrational.

Paul Ballew

When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs.

David Robertson

The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be.

James Murdoch

We don't rule out any pricing or promotional initiatives.

David Kerr

A lot of sellers are still pricing to the higher-end and their properties are still sitting there, and they're not considering realistic offers.

David Cole

In a small vehicle, pricing is a pretty dicey type of thing.

Ray Waddell

Promoters are providing more value. Rather than discounting, they're trying to get the pricing right.

Stephany Sofos

It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Orlando Ayala

It's trying to signal how important we think this is.

Jack Kilby

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Fred Droes

We do not turn signals off and on.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

Jennifer Robinson

The signals should smooth out the traffic around the (King of Prussia) mall.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Thomas Steg

This is a humanitarian signal and we welcome it.

William Dunkelberg

The index signals a solid start to 2006.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

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.

William Shakespeare

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.