Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Johnson

Just think of the catastrophic impact it's had in a country that's pretty well organized, pretty rich. Transfer that to a country that isn't and may not have the same level of capacity to deal with these sorts of things,

Red Cavaney

He can very quickly get to the essence of a conversation. People talk about him as a very skilled negotiator . . . (with) tremendous project management skills, capacity to envision very, very complex undertakings.

Alfredo Rangel

He confronts problems very directly and in direct, colloquial language. He has a great capacity for communication with the ordinary citizen.

George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.

Chris Baldwin

What we have is a functioning standby, ... Having 50 percent of the server capacity in Albany means apps would run in slightly degraded mode, but they would be fully available.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate

Michael Englund

Going into the hurricane we had a shortage of refining capacity anyway. This just throws a hand grenade into the already delicate balance.

Kate Miller

God makes sense. It is naive to think that something so complex as the human being, with its capacity for compassion, knowledge, guilt, and love, could have been spontaneously created by some cosmic hiccup.

Dan Hedges

He did a very good job of making a complex story very understandable for the jury.

Katori Hall

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

Sarah MacLean

Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Chris Sisko

It comes down to the complex interplay of these larger-scale systems.

Randy Charles

It is a complex set of issues in publishing, where you often have three levels?authors, imprint and corporate parent?juggling what to emphasize when and for what purpose.

Larry Ellison

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

John Sculley

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

Sen Simpson

We took just 117 days to conduct a complex financial process that typically takes nine months.

Paul Singer

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Sanjay Dutt

Journalists think twice before striking a conversation with me. I don't know why. I try to make people feel as comfortable as possible.

Howard Rubenstein

He can take you on an intellectual tour of virtually every nation of the world. I had lunch with him and Henry Kissinger last year, and the conversation was back and forth, country by country, taking in politics, government and economics. It was one of the most interesting and extraordinary lunches. If you didn't know his age, you wouldn't think he was 60.

Martin Wright

He just ran out in the middle of the conversation. I thought it was a fight,

Sam Hunt

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

Teju Cole

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

Larry Page

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

Mike Meyer

Had he not been out here playing, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation at all.

Plaxico Burress

He's been talking a little for the last couple of days. We've been laughing, having some fun. He even got on me the other day for having my stuff in front of his locker. But he's a quiet guy. He really doesn't say much. I pretty much had to initiate the conversation and then all a sudden the guy just starts blabbing. Hey, you'd never know that guy could talk so much.

Holly Johnson

I think it's been the topic of conversation for everyone.... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

Jasmine Harrington

He just always envisioned a world where people respected each other.

Val McLean

What we envisioned is a place where the kids can study, and we'll have a place to watch videos of them on the field, as well as a place for them to store their stuff.

Anne Donovan

To finish the season on this note is not how any of us envisioned this.

David Bergen

I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

Don Cooper

I think this is what the Yankees envisioned when he was there. I just don't think he was prepared, at that point in his life, for what he was facing there.

Paul Mainieri

He's been a great lead-off hitter for us, just like I envisioned he would be.

Sarah Kim

I can envision a day when we'll all be watching our flat-panel TVs and will Google the TV to figure out what to watch.

Mary Tyler Moore

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Nancy Grace

Instead of studying law in the law school, I'll be picking up trash in front of the law school. That's not what I envisioned doing with my law degree.

Vivian Stringer

I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Richard Hofstadter

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Samuel P. Huntington

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Richard Rorty

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Robert Delaunay

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Healy

I think it's reasonable to give the new management time to look over the details, though I don't know how Ford's plans are going to change.

Jason Klein

I think that a leveraged buyout by management is also possible.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Ethan Siegal

He may prove to be totally innocent, but this is a negative -- a big distraction -- for his presidential ambitions and management of the Senate.

Sam Altman

In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tim Baker

If you put a wilderness designation on there, the management options are gone,

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jacques Chirac

We are going to put in place our project for multipurpose frigates,

Corey Reynolds

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

Julie London

I think what I project would be my style.

George Lucas

I have hundreds of projects that I want to do, and I'm running out of time - so they'll never get done, I'm afraid.

Steve Ford

Had the residents not done (what they did), the project would not have been what it is,

Robert Carlyle

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

Tori Amos

I like involved projects.

Walt Disney

When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.

Walter Gilbert

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Craig Patrick

Not necessarily. He does have to get it surgically repaired, and he is going to get it done rather quickly. We'll see how quickly he can come back.

Paul Newton

It's different than university. Things have to be done quickly here. Timelines aren't as urgent at university.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Al Groh

He's a no-maintenance, no-baggage player. On top of that, he's a very skilled player.

Tony Bina

We've worked that all year. We're not a real skilled team. We need to get the hard-working goals.

Ian McCulloch

I was like 'This is Mac' - I didn't even know who I was talking to." ()

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Beatrice Arthur

I actually talk a lot about how TV has changed.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Carol Davis

They've really been tremendous with everything -- they just do so much for us,

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.