Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Warren Beatty

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Mike Trapasso

When we're going good we tend to keep going back to the same place (in this case California Pizza Kitchen) every Friday.

Mickey Rourke

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

Kamala Harris

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Krista Allen

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

Joseph Brodsky

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jan Egeland

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Jonny Wilkinson

But he hasn't. Please. As I've tried to explain, let's not create any headlines. Let him go off and enjoy his rugby and we'll see what happens.

Jose Andres Puerta

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

T. Harv Eker

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.

Ray Kurzweil

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Steve Jobs

Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Theo James

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

Niels Bohr

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

Nat Friedman

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

Michael Frayn

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Michael Franti

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

Michio Kaku

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

Zhang Guobao

Any slightest fluctuation could drive speculations on the oil price.

Mark Solomon

Officers drive by that park constantly, since it's right up from the precinct.

Tommy Jr

The thing was, I ran and I fumbled it, so I had to make up, because I couldn't go out like that. So I had to do something to make my team rally back, and I tried to put a drive together.

Tom Johnson

All around, we had a great team effort this weekend. We showed so much heart throughout the meet and I am so proud of our kids. Our strong finishes are a real testament to our kids' work ethic and their drive to improve.

Thomas S. Foley

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jared Bernstein

We've seen we can drive the economy at 4 percent unemployment with strong productivity gains. I won't be satisfied until we're back there. Many working families won't be either, I'd guess.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Donald Trump

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

Donald Trump

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

Donald Trump

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

Donald Trump

We are killing - absolutely killing our energy business in America.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Bob Doll

Without question, foreign stock markets are doing better than the U.S. market.

Bill Plympton

I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Dax Maier

Sometimes you can find great people in New York.

Dave Baron

Team unity. We've got a great relationship between all the guys here.

Ernie Accorsi

Teams that dominated, that won multiple Super Bowls, all had great quarterbacks.

Spike Lee

Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Francis Gaskins

Their rate of growth is high. A lot about investing is getting in the market segments where the rate of growth is high.

Kenneth Fisher

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Steve Case

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Michael Dell

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Michael Dell

Collaboration equals innovation.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Zach Galligan

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Vandana Shiva

If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

Janet Street-Porter

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Doug Stanhope

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Andy Stanley

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Adrian Rogers

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Don DeLillo

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Don DeLillo

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Anderson Cooper

Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Richard Lee

If you save one soul, your work has been done.

Nina Garcia

If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Cecilia Bartoli

This is the secret-the repertoire. You have to try to consolidate your repertoire. It is a big step if you know how to do that.

Dan Furmansky

Overall, it's a step in the right direction.

Adam Miller

We are just taking it step by step. This was another big win for us.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

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

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Samuel Adams

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.