Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Carson

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Richard Branson

Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

Rudyard Kipling

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Mark Romanek

You can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down.

Ian Shepherdson

It is disappointing in the wake of the huge rise in the Empire State survey -- the indexes are usually at similar levels,

Rita Ora

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Brian McNamara

The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this instrument what it is. If you're not making use of the staccato facility you're not making use of the instrument. You might as well be playing the Highland pipes, or a flute, for that matter.

Danree Delancy

We have a football team participating in the Westmoreland Major League, but because of the inadequacies of the playing field, we have had to be playing our home games outside of the community. When the facility is upgraded our netballers and footballers will have the luxury of playing at home.

Bill Johnson

We're very proud of that fact that we have been able to maintain a manufacturing facility in Western New York not only locally but supply the world globally with products.

Thomas Fleming

We have outgrown our facility in St. Charles,

Robert Ford

I think part of it is the facility (and) part of it has to do with the population in Poway. It has so many children, so it gets a lot of use.

Rick Abbott

We figure if we are going to have a holiday tournament, we need to make it a large one. With our facility we can host more teams and not be overcrowded.

Sean Hayes

We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

Kristen Meyer

Nobody is being turned away. If people can't be treated here by us, we transfer them to a facility that can.

Sean Callahan

I have around 160 kids I could work out, but I can't because of the facility. Our facility now can only accommodate 80. I have to take the top 80 players and turn the rest away.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

William McDonough

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Herminio Lucci

The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

William Gibson

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Pierce Brosnan

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Eric Beder

I think people are a little nervous about turnarounds in general. This is probably the largest turnaround ever tried in retail, and people are impatient.

Eric Beder

I think people are a little nervous about turnarounds in general, ... This is probably the largest turnaround ever tried in retail, and people are impatient.

Roland Betts

It doesn't matter if the firms that respond are the largest or the most best-known around the world. We are looking for excitement, creativity, energy.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Karen Chupka

With more than 300 mobile electronics exhibitors, the International CES is the world's largest showcase for in-car technologies.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Harish Rawat

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

Drew Goddard

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Milton Glaser

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Toby Keith

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Travis Plunkett

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

Craig Venter

We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Councilwoman Mackin

I virtually begged for the money. (The project) is really going to be good. I'm thrilled.