Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Erik Cole

Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever it takes to help this team.

Jerry Morris

Safe workers are productive workers, better ensuring system reliability. Safety practices include not only attention to the personal safety of employees, but attention to the safe operation of the system. One of our primary goals is customer service excellence. Keeping employees safe and keeping our system safe enhance the service experience for our customers.

Tom Halbmaier

We're hitting shots and we're getting our confidence back. We just have to be able to pay attention to the little details. The last game and a half, that's what we've been doing minimizing our mistakes and making good shot selections.

Emraan Hashmi

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Nicholas Burns

We very much hope that these sanctions will not be implemented bluntly in a way that would be damaging to the Iranian people, but it is going to be sanctions that will get the attention of the Iranian government.

Al Yankovic

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Alan Greene

We want to bring to the attention of the government that the people are not very happy with the tax system on fuel in this country.

Michael Franc

There is a sense this year that anything is possible, that they have the rapt attention of the leadership.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Joe Case

Rates are based on computer modeling that predicts future risk, not about recouping past losses.

Diane Siri

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council and First 5 Santa Cruz County, is developing a model plan for a voluntary preschool system that would create opportunity for every 4-year-old in Santa Cruz County. This vision is based on the understanding that quality preschool programs are the foundation for success in school and, therefore, in life.

Alexandra Sanders

It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the evidence we had.

Curtis Withers

It was tough losing games we should have won, based on execution and rebounding. It was the small things that good teams should do.

Jim Mastro

These rules are there for schools like Nevada. We don't have the budget. We rent compact cars. We do everything as cost effective as possible. If a kid is making his decision based on whether I pull up in a Cadillac or a compact car, we don't want them here.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Lu Xiaowen

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

P. J. Harvey

Ultimately what they are planning is a Chinese space station in about 2008 or so. To do that they will need to learn about how to survive on longer missions.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Dalai Lama

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Sun Heping

Chinese embassy is the home of all Chinese people living abroad, and we would like to express our sincere wishes to everybody here to have a wonderful future.

Arnaldo Otegi

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

Jon Katz

Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

David McWilliams

When there were unlimited scholarships, we were able to pick and choose and take more of the elite guys. Now it's not the numbers, it's who. Not all of those top guys were going to come to Texas.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man

Chuck Hagel

No one knows what the country -- or the party -- will be looking for when we get ready to choose a new president.

Ricky Williams

I have neighbors, I have friends, and now I have to pick up and go. It's the off-season. I don't have to be here right now but I choose to. It's going to be hard to have to transplant somewhere else.

Damione Lewis

I would love to come back if they want me back. But if they choose to go in another direction, I understand that, too. After all, it is business.

Burt Flickinger

When it comes to their eating habits, consumers will continue to choose the proverbial sin over salvation -- or fat and sugar -- over the lack of it.

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Jeff Cohen

There is clearly going to be a lot of debate and a lot of compromises before we get a final product.

Jim Lowell

Beth is clearly one of their big names. The good news is she's not leaving to start a hedge fund.

John O'Neil

Everybody knew Coke was the one that could pay the most if they wanted to. Now, this puts the company back to where it was three weeks ago before the Pepsi bid. It clearly can remain an independent company if it wants to. They are not cornered at all.

Willie Pearson

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

Jan Leroy

Corporate results are coming in a fairly decent way and are better than expected, the market is clearly focusing on the ones that surprise on the upside and are hammering the ones who disappoint.

Harold E. Varmus

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Jodi Olson

He was at a point in his life where he was retired. And he had expressed this was the happiest point in his life.

Larry Garza

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Ron Yoda

The theaters were the hardest hit, but to some extent all the stores got water intrusion.

Wang Zheng

The extent of the rate hike this time is fairly small. What is more important is whether or not more lies ahead. And even if there are further rate hikes, it is investment that will first be impacted, followed by consumption.

Laura McDowell

They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Eve Ensler

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Dennis Poust

Now it can't be ignored and the Legislature needs to negotiate it.

Efraim Zuroff

totally ignored by the Israeli establishment for decades.

Michael Scott

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Michael Brown

I don't mind the negative press (well, actually, I do, but I try to ignore it) but it is really wearing out the family,

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Madonna Ciccone

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Thomas Aquinas

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Charles Lamb

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

Benjamin Franklin

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Dale Friedman

We simply have got to start paying for people to do that kind of work,

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Donald Trump

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

David Cook

We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.