Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Williams

Primrose Hill is in danger of becoming another Notting Hill, with coach loads of tourists coming to gawp at someone's front door.

James Harper

Operationally and financially the company looks like it is on a steady footing now. It seems more and more predictable. The results in 2003 and 2004 were really choppy. Now they are becoming more predictable.

Peter Yang

Originally St. John's was one of the best universities in mainland China, with many great accomplishments by its alumni. Already here in Taiwan as an institute we have accomplished much. Becoming a formal university will mean finally restoring the great legacy of St. John's University.

Michael Buerk

Oh yes - of course they set the agenda. Could you imagine a Clement Atlee becoming prime minister now? You have to see the way that politicians, in order to succeed, have to be emotionally available, as opposed to coldly rational,

Conard Fowkes

Actors are becoming smarter about retirement than they were five years ago.

Benji Sonnichsen

Defensively, it was the big play again. Two big plays in the first half and that just really hurts you. We got a lot of things to work defensively. We just need to work on becoming better football players.

Mark Edelstone

Demand for PCs is weak and microprocessor prices are becoming more aggressive, ... To stimulate PC demand and improve Intel's long-term competitive position, we believe the company's Pentium 4 price cuts will become more aggressive.

Zachary Abuza

Delineations are becoming particularly difficult as the groups increasingly work together,

Thomas Jefferson

Defamation is becoming a necessity of life; inasmuch as a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ed Dumas

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

Aravind Adiga

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

James Weldon Johnson

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Alan Garner

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Linda Johnson

Devastation doesn't just go away. There needs to be a period of time and a long-term relationship to have an effect on a crisis.

David Dye

The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.

Danton Cole

Saturday is just one of those games you have to forget about. You can't let that effect your performance in your next game. That's something we've been doing better of late.

Aaron Johnson

'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Brian Kenny

I've seen the effect of this on my daughter. I just know this is working at the ground floor level.

Tony Travers

It would be very surprising if the events of the last week had no effect on how people vote.

Tom Bennett

The short-term effect (on European tobacco stocks) will be seriously negative.

John Chamberlin

The state law neither has effective teeth nor good enforcement mechanism.

Elaine Stritch

I've come to the point in my life where less is more. The minute the last hammer fell on the last nail I called the real estate office.

Charles Gargano

This is not a traditional real estate project. This is a project where thousands of people lost their lives.

Jerry Jones

This is not a ski-area opportunity. It's a real- estate development opportunity.

Nate Clements

We feel pretty good about the real estate market right now.

Tommy Williams

The residential real estate last year sold at auction, in live auction, was just over $14 billion.

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Shares such as real estate are expected to rise on expectations for land prices.

P. J. Harvey

But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall.

Jeff Thredgold

Money will go back from real estate to stocks.

Paul Tate

If the industry would give it time, these people would just fall out anyway, ... They would have to do such a large volume (of listings) to make any money, and real estate just doesn't work that way.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Curtis Brown

That's where we've seemed to hit the wall the past few games. We play hard in the first half. But it seems like after halftime, we just can't put forth the same effort.

Allan Bristow

That's where we start. Hard to say where this thing is going to take us in the next few weeks.

Dave Jones

Reading are up and maybe they'll be on the pop celebrating for a few weeks. No matter what, though, it's a game we need to win.

Chuck D.

Primarily, there are messages from a Yahoo group that are most interesting, ... There are memories, a few photos, a photo of Myron's hometown and some historic photos. There are links to other sites Welk related.

Firefighter Cummins

Our discussions are more meaningful than they have been in a long time and we hope to iron all this out in the next few weeks.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Alvaro Soto

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Anatoly Chubais

And yet we must be ready to get into next winter without major failures.

Jorma Kaukonen

Even though I don't have a major label, everyone is doing it by themselves.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Richard Matheson

I think there are other places where we need to spend money.

David Shove

I think he's saying to ING ... that we have other places that we can go -- not that they have seriously responded to other inquiries.

Thad Cochran

You just couldn't be in two places at once,

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.