Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giovanni Agnelli

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

B. R. Hayden

The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

Wole Soyinka

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

Nathaniel Branden

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Alan Murray

That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the current amount of risk in these businesses.

John Griffin

We have an excessive amount of paperwork and clutter.

George Schmidt

We have an equivalent amount of energy in just one gram or about a raisin-size worth of antimatter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'

Patrick Ryan

We have a minimum amount of risk for a really substantial reward,

Yann Martel

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

Scott Burnell

The overall available crop of scientists and students is not what it used to be. We are aware we need a continuing stream of science and engineering expertise.

Peter Coleman

The outlook is very good and Ben should be available for selection in three weeks.

David R. Ellis

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.

Donald Norman

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Mark McClellan

The alternative is having one drug plan that does not reflect what some want, and that costs more and offers less coverage than what is available now,

John Woods

That would be a boon. It has always been a problem to obtain quickly viruses from Southeast Asia. We sincerely hope viruses from Turkey would be available very quickly.

David Nabarro

The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.

Marvin Harris

The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.

Sean McHugh

While we saw an increase in the boxed-beef prices, which contributed to our increase in sales, at the same time, we're still looking at higher cattle prices. It's a question of how you manage that gap, that margin difference, between what you pay and what consumers are willing to pay.

Richard Engel

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

Buffalo Bill

He herded cattle and worked as a driver on a wagon train, crossing the Great Plains several times,

Caroline DeWaal

Very few cattle have been found to be infected. Even in Europe, where many cattle were infected and entered the food supply, only 150 people contracted the human form.

Christiane Berthiaume

There is no meat. The cattle have been killed. They're only eating corn.

Perry Neal

We're fortunate that we have cattle and the cattle market is pretty good right now.

Lori Wilde

Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.

August Wilson

In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

Yahya Jammeh

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Isobelle Carmody

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

Imani Hakim

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Gail Kelly

I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

Gloria Gaither

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

Gillian Armstrong

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Geoff Hoon

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Dick Reed

You just hope they will see the daylight and realize what they did wrong.

Freddy Adu

I was facing sideways and I saw the defender out of the side of my eye and just lifted it over, ... I saw daylight and went right at them.

Sheila Thomas

I think I'm going to see a little daylight here.

Frank Williams

He is never going to pass ahead. All he sees is daylight and he is going for what he knows.

Rod Coleman

Fred looked pretty good tonight. He wasn't hesitating, he saw daylight and just took off for it. He looked like the Taylor of old I thought.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

Adrian Peterson

I run to daylight when I see an opening,

Karyn Hopkins

I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I would do my grocery shopping at 3 in the morning. I would not go out during the daylight because I felt people were laughing at me, staring at me.

Tim Stowers

We looked at the history of Rhode Island football. In 107 years there have been 31 winning seasons. It seems like when we get past the homecoming game and daylight savings time our season kind of turns into the dark.

Yolanda Adams

The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

Constance Marie

While you're pregnant, I suggest that you eat like you regularly do. Yes you can eat a little more, but eat healthier for as long as you can.

Colin Angle

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

Bee Wilson

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

Bee Wilson

I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.

Bee Wilson

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

Becky G

I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.

Bill Cosby

If I read the small print, and I see that what I love to taste has pantonaponamene or fake smeinlioaimine, then I have to hide in my room when I eat it. I'm still gonna eat it, it's just gonna be 'Don't come in here!'

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Tom Browning

That was a special group. They left footprints. We want to follow them and feed off them.

Jimmy Williams

That was the only way we could feed those people because all the stores were down. We were just scrapping together, making it happen.

Shannon Stewart

That will be nice to play with him. Hopefully, I can feed off of him, and he can feed off of me.

Richard Dean Anderson

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

Rich Smith

We've gotten such nice feedback about the festival - some of it from professional playwrights, talking about how well respected it is.

Clifford Galey

We're working on trying to get meals in here to feed our people.

Michael Parmly

Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Bill Burr

You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

Jason Green

Well, really it was a huge waste of time, when we got here we just sat around for two hours doing nothing.

William Shakespeare

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I count only the hours that are serene.

Paul Tagliabue

You can go back and look at whether we'd have a team in L.A. had we done something different in 1994-95. But I think if you look at the big picture, it's one of strong accomplishment. There are only so many hours in the day.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

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

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Idina Menzel

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.

Michael Lloyd

That would leave the other one to merge with Union Pacific.

Samir Inamdar

We have already talked with Zimbabwe with the view of having their team come here before we leave for Bangladesh.

Rick Riordan

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Bruce Bowen

To leave that and become disciplined to the point where you realize, 'OK, maybe now is not the time to take one in transition'... him getting that is huge.

William J. Wills

We have been unable to leave the creek.

Noelle Quinn

We're used to warm weather, leaves on trees and being able to walk outside without a jacket. But we're not here for the weather, we're here to play basketball.

Larry Davis

Mick and I share the same philosophy - don't leave any stones unturned - and that's serving us well in our situation.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Josh Brolin

I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

Don Lemon

Whatever happens with my career, I'm going to prosper no matter what.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Bethenny Frankel

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Bob Bauman

That was a lot of weight off their shoulders.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Chanel Iman

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Cathy Guisewite

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.