Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwane Casey

We told him to pump fake and go. It's a very delicate thing because the worst thing you can do is start putting hesitation in a shooter's mind. It's learning, reading, being in that situation numerous times.

Raymond Chandler

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

Whitney Houston

To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

Doug Aitken

'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

Luella Bartley

I like things to be quite poppy, quite graphic -- it's quite a London sensibility. I'm not looking for 'pretty' or 'nice. Stripes are always a huge thing for me. I'm obsessed with stripes. I like a graphic flower print, not a delicate Liberty (of London) print, and I like uniform prints.

Johnnie Cochran

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Enrique Iglesias

this is a very delicate issue. . . . We have to work on solutions to make this process more organized, more humane.

Cardinal Lozano

It's a very difficult and delicate theme that requires prudence.

Bruce Fuller

It's good to see public education taking more risks ... but it is a very delicate balance. Meanwhile, it's the students and their families that are hurt.

Kathy Walt

I don't know of a single teacher in Texas who wouldn't welcome the possibility of getting a raise of $10,000, and if the head of a labor union wants to demean and diminish the hard work and the value of teachers, then he or she should be ashamed.

Kevin Stass

The fuel loss will diminish the total number of miles it is able to travel.

George Morris

The availability of the land has really diminished over the last five years.

Doug Myers

The odds of an October rate hike have been greatly diminished by this employment report,

Don Ward

It's not meant to diminish the customer's relationship with the partner at all. We want to strengthen it.

John Tschohl

They fear that, if employees are empowered to make decisions, their roles in the organization will be diminished or eliminated.

Val McDermid

A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

Michael Steele

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Phyllis Schlafly

The people who want to dissolve or diminish American sovereignty and replace it with global governance never give up. Their modus operandi is to work toward their one-world goal incrementally through United Nations treaties.

Daniel Borochoff

It's really a way to disguise your fund-raising.

Kim Harrison

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Louis Dudek

The best live among us in disguise.

Rich DeBrino

It's just a thinly disguised way to sell software, and actually, it's not that thin.

Anna Johnson

thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).

Becky Johnson

This ordinance is unfair to every visitor in Santa Cruz. It's thinly disguised loitering law that will be selectively enforced.

Primo Goffi

It's a parts program in a thinly disguised cloak.

Gamaliel Bradford

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

John Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Steve Box

Jake did a great job defensively. The kid has been averaging 17 points a game, but we took him out of his rhythm. He never really got going until the last quarter.

Lawrence Summers

Jack Meyer did a great job for Harvard.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Rick Schmidt

He didn't want people to know where he was staying.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Mark Twain

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Judith Martin

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

John Roberts

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

Jack Roush

It all starts with my relationship with my sponsors,

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Katrina Kaif

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Roger Enrico

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Ricardo Semler

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

Robert Reich

Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.

Wayne Dyer

When you connect to your source, you can create anything you'd like to have in your life.

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.

Noam Chomsky

Control is the source of strategic power.

Muhammad Iqbal

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Mark Victor Hansen

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

Meister Eckhart

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

Henri Nouwen

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

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.