Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Taylor

What I tend to see from people is their wanting their children to appreciate the legacy that's being passed. You can either treat life disrespectfully and be self-centered, or you have a true calling or a passion.

Ralph Reed

What I don't appreciate - and what I'm confident the voters will reject - is the attempt by some of the media and others to engage in guilt by association. To associate me with the misdeeds of others is unfair, it's wrong and it will be rejected at the ballot box.

Hari Kondabolu

I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

E. O. Wilson

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

Drew Barrymore

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

Donatella Versace

I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.

Douglas William Jerrold

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

Dalai Lama

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Nick Shay

A positive outcome of a hurricane season like this is that we've been able to learn more about the Loop Current and its associated warm-water eddies, which are basically hurricane intensity engines.

Tom Dineen

No one should beat themselves up for what we did or didn't do. I'm more proud of this group of kids than any group I've ever been associated with.

Walt Sanchez

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

Kofi Annan

I did not influence, or attempt to influence, the procurement process.

Bill Gates

This is clearly the most massive attempt at government regulation of the technology industry ever.

George Lucas

After that only the VHS and DVD copies that people have purchased will be left, ... That's not a problem, as each VHS copy has been encrypted to write commands to any VCR that tries to play them after a certain date to erase the tape. Any dubbed copies of these VHS tapes also contain the encryption. DVD copies of movies were easier to protect. After the same date, the DVDs simply won't play, and will come out as digital gibberish if people attempt to copy them after that date.

Robert Holsworth

It's really their last attempt to try to give a frame to this choice that the public can grasp. It's one of the things that's been difficult for each of them in this campaign, to really frame the choice that the public's going to make in a compelling way, ... This debate gives each side the opportunity to really try to frame for the public what the election's about, and to give the public a better sense of what they're about.

Maria Cheng

Any attempt to strengthen the surveillance worldwide for H5N1 is a good plan.

Ivan Illich

Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up.

Kofi Annan

any attempt to harm him or other leaders is counterproductive.

Josh Bivens

Any attempt to forecast what skills will be needed 10 years from now is just folly. If 10 years ago someone told you financial analysts were a job that was going to be exposed to intense global competition, a lot of people probably would not believe it but that definitely seems to be a possibility today.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Eric Barber

He's more comfortable than last year. Last year he was thrown into the fire. This year he understands the position more. He's more confident and more confident about the people around him.

Michael Owen

I'm confident in my position in the team and my value to the team from recent and past performances,

Maxwell

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

E. Hicks

I'm confident in his abilities and for the continued growth of the organization.

Phil Shepherd

I'm confident I can play strong safety at the collegiate level. I just have to keep on working and playing better.

Howard Hertz

I'm confident he had nothing to do with any such letter, and he would not condone it.

Greg Rusedski

I'm confident and we'll just have to wait and see,

Joseph Biden

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

Paris Hilton

I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Linda Ellerbee

We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.

Peter Bergen

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

Payne Stewart

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

Phil Donahue

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

Peter Hook

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Pedro Martinez

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

Kim Kardashian

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

Kevin Harvick

To be honest with you, I walked into media day (in February at Daytona), and there were two people standing in line to conduct interviews, so from day one of this year, everybody’s kind of written us off.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.

Charles M. Blow

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.