Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

A twig is bent while it is green.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Keith Edelman

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

Jeffrey Steingarten

admits he prefers Haagen-Dazs to Ben & Jerry's. Even so, he salutes Carbone's efforts to be different. ''There is something good and enlivening and even ennobling about food that makes you laugh, that makes you curious, makes you wonder.

Rob Douglas

Companies value customer service over security. The emphasis in training is always on satisfaction of the customer, push more products and move the calls as quickly as possible.

Marie Okabe

The Secretary-General calls on all Liberians registered to vote to do so in a peaceful and orderly manner, just as they did during the first round on Oct. 11,

Susan Hazen

This program calls on virtually eliminating those uses in those products and substituting with other materials that aren't displaying any levels of concern.

Ewa Kopacz

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Eric Adams

We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.

Eric Poteet

We have received no calls regarding them whatsoever.

Steve Wilson

We have received many calls and letters. We have no legal jurisdiction to get involved as things now stand.

Doug Mosier

We have received calls from various organizations. We don't always know who is giving us information or tips, but we follow them.

Tim Tackett

Conversely, I had a couple of phone calls indicating from people stating that they couldn't see where the big uproar was, ... I certainly didn't want to put it up to a referendum. It's unfortunate that we have some folks who are unhappy.

Jack Warner

This goes to also say how fortunate you are to have this chance. We do not want to say that we qualified for a World Cup in a one-off situation.

Brian O'Rourke

That's going to be a very difficult game especially for a team that has lost three games. This is a World Cup and there are no easy games. We had to qualify to get here. Maybe we had things too easy in the qualifying series. But it is difficult out here.

John Koh

That's not going to happen. The Malaysia Cup days for Singapore football are over as we move forward in search of our own identity and success.

Richard Mandella

That's kind of the short-range plan. We're going to get to the Breeders' Cup this year and not mess it up.

Theo Zwanziger

The mixture of police and military duties is dangerous. Our history has taught us that. And a World Cup is not in any way a reason to deviate from that principle.

Trent Yawney

You might be witnessing the team which might be in the Stanley Cup Finals.

John Shanley

We're hearing that Nike is going to match or exceed the 145 million euros Adidas is going to spend for World Cup events.

Kacey Musgraves

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our buildup for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Ian Shepherdson

This is a strong report: Manufacturing output has strengthened markedly in the past two months, following a lackluster showing in February.

Robert Kiyosaki

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

Thomas S. Monson

Never, never, never postpone following a prompting.

James Fenton

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Mark Davis

Mark tweaked his knee in the first half on Saturday, it has subsequently swollen in the 24 hours following the game.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Khiem Do

The issue is whether there's another increase following the one in May.

Atharva Veda

The forest-dwellers have grown weary of wandering in the forests; following the Guru's Teachings, see your Husband Lord within your heart.

Peter Hitchens

This is a good deal, BP had a hole in its lubricants portfolio and need a quality lubricant following the Mobil venture's breakup,

Steve Frank

Don't let Leno and his San Francisco friends ruin our children.

Alice Cooper

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.

Patti Smith

I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'

DeShawn Stevenson

Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve in New York.

Mario Batali

I lived in San Francisco from '84 to '88.

Jeremy Allen White

I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.

Mark Twain

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Al Franken

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Bar Refaeli

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

Cory Monteith

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Dylan Lauren

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

Douglas Adams

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Douglas Adams

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Dorothy Day

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Christopher Moore

Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

Chuck Martin

There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Willie Smith

Every time I saw him, he had a smile on his face, and that put a smile on my face.

R. Ingram

We all saw what happened. I just took him out.

Buck Showalter

We didn't like what we saw from (Young). In warmups, he didn't look like we had it. His velocity was down, and it wasn't worth the risk.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Jason Baker

This one was the ultimate whiteout - a wall of snow.