Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Jason Conley

The thing I love most the coaching staff didn't give up on me. That's actually the reason I've broken out.

Rudi Giuliani

St. Paul's Chapel stands -- without so much as a broken window, ... little miracle.

George Soros

Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.

John Gilmore

Something is fundamentally broken at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.

Kevin Kading

Some say, the first chance I get it's coming out. Others say it never should have been broken in the first place and that one of the main reasons they signed up for CRP is that they like wildlife.

Bible Bible

So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

Mohammad Farzaneh

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Dennis McAlpine

It would not surprise me if there were a deal, either way.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

Oscar Wilde

Things last either too long, or not long enough,

William Ames

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

John Burnside

The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.

Rolf Peterson

The wolf is a hot-button species. It never fails to ignite passions, either for or against.

Deirdre Lovejoy

'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between.

Christian Kane

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

Jamie Sandison

Profit forecasts for Europe are still far too high.

Eric Kraus

Russia does not want to have her oil and gas exports threatened by some of the transit countries, in particular Poland, ... This will increase the volume of Russian gas exports to Europe and will to some extent increase the security of those exports.

Sean Callow

We're having a euro recovery at the moment. But it's all momentum and technical trading,

Benjamin Disraeli

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

Charles Darwin

The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

Lee Ferridge

There are players, including hedge funds and pension funds, establishing new longs in the euro at the start of the year.

Bob Lynch

The outlook for the euro is to strengthen,

Barbara Amiel

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Arjuna Mahendran

Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Igor Ivanov

As far as the terrorists -- who do not respect human norms -- are concerned, they must lay down their arms. Otherwise, they will be fought with anti-terrorist measures,

Alain Vigneault

As far as the skill and quickness, I saw some things that I liked. He was able to get into some holes.

Jay Bryson

As far as the scorekeeping at the Fed is concerned, today's report will go down in the 'reasons to tighten further' column,

Ellen Muth

As far as the reaping of souls, she now views her job the way the other Reapers do: It's a job, you do it and it's done, so there you go.

Mike Goodman

As far as the patent process and how long it takes to patent something, this is a story that is not yet written.

Eduardo Ermita

As far as the Palace is concerned, we will follow the rule of law. We will just see what develops,

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dan Crowley

As far as the neighbors I've talked to, they think it's a great idea. Everything is favorable.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

Jason Bram

The story of New Jersey is one of stability and modest growth.

Brent Bracelin

The slowing growth and deteriorating margins could mean that 2006 will be a more challenging year than 2005 was.

Tim Luke

the surprising sustainability of 30 percent-plus growth over the next 10 years.

Ernie Goss

The most recent rate increases, and a rate hike at its next meeting, in my judgment will slow growth to an unacceptably low rate for the region and the nation.

Ifzal Ali

Strengthening the inclusiveness of the growth process is a precondition to sustaining high growth rates.

Daryl Strohbehn

Some sires were in the top 25 percent with superior growth and end product weight, while others did it with moderate growth and superior quality attributes.

Evan Olsen

November has had a lot better tone to it than usual. We're seeing money rotating into the growth stocks. If I had to guess, I think people are pretty positive on the market.

Stuart Fraser

Technology is here to stay. There is long-term growth in the industry.

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Jane Goodall

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Barry Sheene

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

Amy Waldman

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Alex Cox

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Anthony Bourdain

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

Tony Abbott

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

Tite Kubo

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

Ronald Reagan

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Augusten Burroughs

But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Richard Sharp

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

Lynn Fegley

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

Robert Heaney

It's not surprising there was a blunted response.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Diane Screnci

At some point, all three of them will be under consideration at the same time.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Nancy Mulroy

That's illegal. She was told two or three times.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Dominic Monaghan

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Margaret Spellings

And what we do today will probably be not what we're going to do in three years from now.

Mark Gole

To be honest, that's what I wanted. I didn't want to have to go into day three going, 'Is this the day we're going to come back?' I didn't want to come back. I wanted to set everything up and win it outright.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.