Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

Steven Hatfill

I am appalled at the terrible acts of biological terrorism that have caused death, disease and havoc in this great country starting last fall.

Publilius Syrus

He who yields to his times acts wisely

Andrew Sukawaty

If you leave the face closed, it acts like any phone. Open it and you have a high-resolution desktop with PDA functions, ... the best smart phone you'll see this year.

Bryan Whitman

In some cases, you had detainees that had made some incriminating statements about other detainees, and about third parties back in their home countries. In others, detainees had made statements that could be taken by enemy forces as disloyal acts against them. In others, detainees indicated that they had cooperated with U.S. forces, which could be held against them by individuals in their home countries.

Matt Rosoff

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could double (its online advertising revenue) in three to five years.

Jason Calacanis

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

Graeme Base

I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.

Joel Smith

What works in spam is similar to what works in advertising. Things like weight loss, work at home, get rich, those are beginning to find an audience.

Stuart Linde

Here's a company with a great balance sheet driven by its international cable acquisition game plan more than anything else. Liberty has about 15 percent revenue exposure to advertising whereas Viacom, Fox, and News Corp. have about 45 percent exposure.

Charles Black

Having more money than the other candidates has always been important, but there is a bigger premium on it this time. There will be multimillion dollar advertising budgets needed for those large states.

Hugh Calkins

I think it's likely the search engine advertisers are more likely to mislead our clients, that's one of the reasons we first took them on.

Vivienne Westwood

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Tom Eiland

Research shows that traditional advertising and public relations work pretty well for events, such as a sale. But brand loyalty and commitment occurs through experience, use of a product and talking with other people.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Eric Johnson

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

Brendan Gilfillan

He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town, ... Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Ben Bernanke

High energy prices are burdening household budgets and raising production costs, and continued increases would at some point restrain economic growth.

Johnathan Frakes

I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.

Kevin Lee

In a time when education budgets are increasingly tighter than ever, every dollar counts when it comes to school funding. This is especially true for unrestricted funds in which schools can decide for themselves how to use the money -- whether it's for teacher training, special field trips, school supplies, playground equipment, musical instruments and more. We've found that every school has a wish list, and we want to help them fill it.

Charles Djou

I'm very disappointed. I fought very hard to make sure funding stayed in the budget.

Viola Spolin

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

William J. Clinton

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

Riccardo Muti

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

Robin Hayes

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Robert Venturi

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Rudolf Steiner

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

W. H. Auden

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jim Moran

It is premature, we don't have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Sam Walton

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

William O. Douglas

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

Mayor O'Reilly

I need more information about how it got where it was.

Jeff Williams

I had a little more information on the hitters.

John Pescatore

In this case, the person who is sending out the information is the one that's responsible.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Troye Sivan

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that’s a good thing I don’t know,

Richard Curtis

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

Bernard Golden

Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality.

Terry Mackin

Internet Broadcasting has been a very successful partner, not just for TV stations' local Web sites but also on a national scale.

Marc Ostrofsky

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

James Marsters

I don't know much about the internet, I'm afraid

Peter Doyle

As more people get on the Internet and they get more savvy and learn how to use it, they'll just go straight to the brands,

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Peter Jackson

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Kendrick Lamar

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Larry Niven

The majority is always sane.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Ryan Hansen

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

David Alan Basche

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Andrea Seigel

Viewers make online requests to their favorite video-making whisperers to do the things that trigger their head tingles. Everyone's needs are different. It's like an interactive choose-your-own-adventure.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Chris Marshall

It's showing our talent off to the scouts.

Pat Fowler

(Counseling centers) aren't going to find it just showing up on their doorstep.

Alia Shawkat

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

Stjepan Hauser

We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Joe Hurwitz

There was a sign that said, 'Church for sale' and some of the parishioners were upset.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Kazimir Malevich

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Henri Nouwen

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Honore de Balzac

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Richard Foreman

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin

There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

Mark Harmon

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

Marvin Kalb

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Garry Kasparov

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.

Dmitry Medvedev

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Viktor Yushchenko

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.