Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bobby Lee

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bill Gurley

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bing Gordon

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Billy Beane

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Bennett Miller

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

Barry Sternlicht

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Pablo Picasso

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Robert Scoble

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Henry Petroski

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Marcia MacClary

Weaver's Cove has established that the smaller tankers will be feasible from a design and navigational standpoint.

Iris Apfel

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

John Piper

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

Dave Riggins

This will enable us to do the design in-house.

Fred Young

To me, the design drawing shows it should have been at minus 17. I don't know what (the LSU team) is doing and how they're getting minus 10. We're looking into it.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Andy Roddick

I don't know that I'll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

Andy Roddick

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

Andy Roddick

Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

Annie Besant

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Annie Lennox

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Annie Dillard

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Annie Dillard

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

Chuck Lorre

According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.

Ichiro Suzuki

That was embarrassing. If I'm satisfied with the way I played today, I might as well quit.

John Stack

That's the uniqueness of this story. We're in the southeastern part of the U.S., but we might as well be in a Third World country.

Tony Dungy

That's their style of play. I think Mike might be disappointed if they didn't play that way.

Robert Kirshner

That's very weird. But it's not unprecedented that weird things might be true things.

Riley Wallace

That's the road trip you have to look back on and think what might be if we got one, or both, of them. We'd be right up there.

Andy Fisher

That's the question all the parents would like to know. It's quite challenging. We're trying to find alternative placement for them for the rest of the year - what their options might be next year.

James Blake

I would like to think I might have taken something out of Andre's legs,

Empress Michiko

I would like to tell Sayako just what comes to my mind on the morning of the wedding, but like my mother before me, perhaps I too might not be able to say anything at all,

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Larry Hagman

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Omar Epps

I've never taken myself too seriously.

Olympia Snowe

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

Olafur Eliasson

I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.

Norman Vincent Peale

In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.