Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Jeff Morris

The advantages of heavy crude processing and upgrade of the bottoms via high-valued asphalt sales fit our core strategy and our business model well.

F. Schumacher

That was a very tough race. The timing of the safety car period worked to our advantage early on and we were in good shape. We were quick in the conditions, everything was going well and the strategy was well defined. Then we just decided to go onto dry tyres too early. It was a very close decision, but we took it together and we got it wrong.

Jessica Parenti

That was such a shame, because we were getting rewarded for what we were doing. We didn't take advantage of it.

Laura Hall

That was probably the highest score I could have shot. I just didn't take advantage of some situations I should have.

Terrance Farley

That was a good change for once. Playing in the Big East everybody was bigger than us, in mass and in height, so this was pretty different and we took advantage of the opportunity.

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Brad D. Smith

Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.

Victoria Osteen

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Stan Magee

The allegations were all baseless, without merit, highly suspect and I am very surprised that the TEA even bothered to get involved in making a judgement call in areas that were governed by our own board operating procedures.

Isaac Mayer Wise

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Donald Trump

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Vikram Seth

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

Becky G

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

Idina Menzel

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Bethany Hamilton

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Mike Maroth

The 21-loss thing is probably always going to be mentioned next to my name, but I'm glad the focus is off of that.

Marvin Cohen

That was the general focus of what we did. I think we were right.

Chad Kison

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

Vanessa Paradis

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Cheryl Cole

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Bill Vaughan

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Dennis King

That would be one place where Phil can hit the ground running.

Rex Geveden

We can't have 10,000 people on the ground at the Kennedy Space Center.

Marlon Wayans

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.

Billy Wagner

We have to pick up ground when they lose.

Paul Hoffman

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

Marc Pado

Mergers are looking to help us hold our ground today.

Jim Kennedy

I suspect that it will show the same individual and the same guns were used in all the shootings,

Louis Graham

The people who are turning the guns in are not the problem,

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

Amber Rose

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

Thomas Brewer

I don't know that we need this many guys with guns in New Orleans,

Jesse Jackson

We are at a tug of war over American values. Our nation must lead with superior ideas and sacrifices, not with guns and bombs.

Robert Hill

whether these so-called smoking guns as such can be found, I don't know.

Joe Pack

When it comes down to being the sponsor of a team, it has become a lot more business-oriented than people think. Their legs are like machine guns going up and down.

Larry Black

We are not going in with guns blazing; I've told my people that. We are disciplined first. We'll respond appropriately to whatever we face.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.

Lorretta Guazzini

We have a memorial hill where people can place etched stones for loved ones whose remains have been scattered.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

James Smith

Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!

Tommy Tuberville

It doesn't make a hill of beans. I remember being at Miami and I don't think we ever were a Top 10 team (in recruiting) and we won three national championships.

Cara Barrett

I would really like to see these kids with disabilities be out on the hill skiing and snowboarding as much as possible.

Cynthia Lowery

He had been with Wood-land Hills a long time.

Trey Clark

He had a big tractor tire that he liked to jump in and roll down hills in.

Craig Mundie

If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Carl Sagan

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Tommy Amaker

That was a role reversal from last time. That was a key today.

Spencer Taylor

That was the key to the game. Somebody was going to start making some shots, so it was going to be us or them and fortunately for us, we got some together.

Sean Taylor

That was the key play of the game. That sort of put it away.

Paul Hatcher

That was a key stretch. When Greensville took that lead, I wondered how the kids would respond. We haven't trailed in many games, and especially on this stage. Everyone stepped up with Hosea on the bench.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Donald Trump

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

Earl Warren

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Dennis Farina

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Chris Hardman

When I was 4 years old, I got to see that tower being put up, and it's been my life. This was a big tragedy today.

Harry Seidler

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'