Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Stephen Briggs

Remorseless buying of precious metals by investors has pushed prices higher. Quietly behind in the background is dollar weakness.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Robert H. Connelly

I think that if the tribe can demonstrate that this site is central and essential to its religion, it has a good chance of success in this case,

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

John Davidson

When you're on the wrong side of the ledger column like that, it's just fate. It's unexplainable.

Lewis Uhler

Publicly traded corporations and others with high visibility are reluctant to have their name in a column of contributors to Prop. 75.

Yumei Wang

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny and spaced far apart.

Winston Churchill

The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness

Ben Schwartz

I don't think they thought I was a threat to Steve Pederson. They thought someone would read my column and be inspired to hurt his kids.

Alex Pareene

I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

Bill Scott

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

Allan Sloan

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Ellen Goodman

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.

Nadia Giosia

You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

M. Hardman

We will be taking down the old poles and putting up some decorative lighting. We are going to replace the sidewalks on the south side. We would like to also be able to do some work on the drainage problem for the south side businesses.

Jeff Roberts

The plan will include decorative features, preliminary roadway realignments, drainage and landscaping. The FP&L element is not part of the 30-percent design, but it is following a parallel course.

Signe Cann

My mother said azaleas are like decorative objects -- you should move them at will. She had no compunction about moving a plant if it wasn't doing its job.

Max Ernst

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Isadore Sharp

It has been held to the principles of what Terry wanted. So 25 years is probably just the beginning.

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Tracy Egeland

I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good.

Cuki Alvarez

He held his opponent to the fence, threw leg kicks, knees to the head, and punches. It was three minutes of punishment and that's when the referee stopped the fight.

Kevin Delaney

He may not have been holding the steering wheel, but he was the one who held all the power.

Mark Blondin

Our members spoke out and held the line.

Gary Mitchell

I just held him like I would my own son.

Stacy Kim

I played pretty well. I missed a lot of putts that I could have made. I stuck it out and held it together.

Bobby Hamilton

I'm really surprised it held up for the pole. We've been the quickest truck since we've been here,

Danny Bonaduce

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

Matt Howard

He's a tough horse, he's been training very well here.

Ben Howland

He's going to be with our trainer all night. It will take a team of horses to keep him out.

Dakota Fanning

I had never been around horses at all. That's why I wanted to do it.

Rashad Anderson

You've got to get some horses, man. You've got to get some more players in. No knock on the players now, but you've got to get some horses in there. Get the right pieces to the puzzle.

J. R. R. Tolkien

That is Shadowfax. He is cheif of the Maeras, lords of all horses, and not even Theoden, King of Rohan, has ever looked on a better. Does he not shine like silver, and run as smoothly as a swift stream?

George Allen

There's a lot of intermingling of race horses. ... So it's not too surprising it's showing up in the tracks.

Harvey Bailey

It was a very big deal. There was a parade, with horses and floats.

Karen Sussman

We have a potential of 200 horses going to a tribe, and they could get $20,000 to keep them on their land.

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Kunda Dixit

He really wants to ride it out. It may take some time (for him to go).

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.

David Robinson

This is all just a part of the roller-coaster ride of a winter we're having this year.

Fred Berry

Eighty-seven-thousand riders may not be as many as other areas, but that's still 87,000 riders.

Joe Polizzi

It's too silly. Save it for the ride home.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Eric Fry

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.