Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

Nazmul Hoque

We have been urging the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources over the last few years to meet our demands. After a long discussion the adviser of the ministry agreed to fulfil our three-point demands recently, but the commitment has not yet been fulfilled.

Dave Goldberg

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Matt Thornhill

Most large financial service companies have rushed new marketing materials to help boomers start thinking about retirement planning?and all are based on the financial services company focusing on you and your life, versus them and the products they want to sell. Where it falls short is when you call the financial services firm and interact with a planner or adviser who only wants to sell you products. The training hasn't filtered down from the marketing professionals to the front-line client-contact people.

Raymone Bain

Michael is very, very, very saddened to learn of the passing of Bill Bray, who was a longtime friend and mentor to him and very trusted adviser to him.

John Demming

To date, we are not aware of any specific link between the inquiry and Wellington's management of Vanguard funds. Vanguard has a long-standing relationship with Wellington and remains confident in their abilities as an adviser of our clients' assets.

Gerhard Schr

he will go into some form of business heavy industry, old-fashioned, lots of back-room dealing, etc. You may find him as an adviser to French, Chinese or Russian companies these are countries in which he is highly regarded.

Joseph Lieberman

He has a very difficult task before him, ... I fear that as an adviser who lacks statutory mandate, Senate confirmation and budget confirmation and budget authority, he will not be as effective as we need him to be.

Arun Sarin

He has deep experience of the sector and knows us well from his role as an adviser over many years.

Ian Mckellen

Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

Donald Trump

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Warren Giles

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

Wesley Clark

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Chris Carter

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Tom DeLay

The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.

Albert Schweitzer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Ian Mckellen

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

William Jay

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is

Billy Graham

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

Bikram Choudhury

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.

David Hanson

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Nayvadius Cash

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

C. S. Lewis

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Eric Lamoureux

The over-riding question is, what will we learn from Katrina?

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Paula Gonzalez

He just had a longtime want to be in the military.

Hayley McFarland

I am a longtime fan of 'Freaks and Geeks'.

Robert Altman

As a longtime Keillor fan, I'm thrilled to be doing this project with him,

Robert Kiyosaki

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

Dmitry Medvedev

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Bernard Cornwell

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Bo Sanchez

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Jane Fonda

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Michael Caine

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

Madeleine Stowe

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

Larry Fitzgerald

Michael was just throwing it up and I was just trying to make a play. That's all. I couldn't tell what was going on back there (in the pocket), I couldn't see.

Brian Hill

Michael Redd is an outstanding offensive player. He made some big shots down the stretch.

Dave Whelan

Michael rang to say thanks for trying to sign him,

Terry Stotts

Michael played a terrific game. It was entertaining, but I'm not taking much consolation in that.

Adrian Bevington

Michael Owen will not be travelling with the team to Turkey on Thursday afternoon,

Jean Todt

Michael is normally quite cool, but the way he reacted is quite significant, ... He missed an opportunity, and we know that we haven't had so many opportunities this year.

Mike Gatting

Michael is getting stuck on the crease and is not moving his feet,

Ashton Kutcher

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Charles Gabriel

That will probably be more important for its passing than for its result.

Ernie Accorsi

That was really, to me, the passing of the torch, ... This was the second part of it.

Sidney Crosby

I thought of passing it for a second.

George Speight

I think they're making themselves look stupid with every passing day. We will not be sidelined in this process.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Sidney Crosby

I was trying to be him when I was 10 years old. So now, with passing him, it's pretty special.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Larry McMurtry

She trusted us more than she should have. She trusted us not to make the story unless we could make it right.

Sidney Sheldon

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

Jim Hines

If I would not have trusted him (Collins), he would not have been there.

Linda Wells

A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life

Werner Herzog

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.