Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Brian Crozier

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Charles Spurgeon

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Anwar Robinson

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

Jeff Biggers

I found myself in the South. I got picked up by somebody and made a joke about how dangerous it is to hitchhike with hillbillies. He told me to get out.

Willie Randolph

I guess I'm a show-me guy, I want to see that David can keep making the adjustments.

William Devane

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

Gail Carson Levine

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

Gillian Armstrong

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

Val Kilmer

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

Chuck Palahniuk

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

Brent Spiner

Yeah, I do like X-Files. I like the ones that star David Duchovny.

Jeff Morris

There is insufficient evidence that there was intentional wrongdoing by David Wittig.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Jerry Seinfeld

Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power.

Evelyn Waugh

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Ernest Hemingway

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Christian Nestell Bovee

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Scott Ellis

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Yutaka Miura

The slide in U.S. stocks looks non-stop. This is not a good sign for Tokyo, especially for high-tech exporters,

Kevin Lyons

The slices are thin, and the sauce is delicious. It is a very good place for lunch.

Shawn Green

The stuff he was throwing tonight was as good as you're going to see in this league.

Jeff Shaw

The students are helping their high school, they work hard, and it's a good product.

Jim Cole

The student population is at a relatively good time of life in terms of health, strength and vitality,

Liz McColgan

The standard is so high and the Ethiopians are so good that I think she would be stupid to do both," ()

Ian Foster

The squad has had a good rest this week after our trip. While we have had a short preparation this week, it has been a concentrated one.

Margaret Whelan

The spring selling season is off to a good start. It's not as strong as last year, but it's not weak by any means.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Michael Kroll

You just hope the other players can hold the ship. Our subs played real well.

Annette McEvoy

While women are still the majority of shoppers, I think men hold out a hope for a better retail year.

Lincoln Bormann

We can only hold off on this for so long.

William Shakespeare

I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

Dito Montiel

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

Peter McTeague

In the end, the Fed's on hold until there's inflation and significant job creation,

Joe Powers

I just wanted to hold on and hope nothing went wrong.

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Jonathan Brown

When the Colts lost to the Steelers, my interest in the playoffs ended.

Linda Barrabee

Marketers thought they lost out on the Internet, and they don't want to lose out on mobile phones, too. There is a lot of interest on the part of studios to do something different in mobile.

Eric Kuby

I think people feel comfortable that we're near the end of the interest rate (raising) cycle.

Michelle Clayman

We're also still getting support from the low interest rates. While Treasury yields are not as low today as they've been, they are still historically at a substantial low, and that lends support to equities.

Stephen Leeb

It doesn't take a lot to get people worried. It just comes down to oil and interest rates.

Jim Hopkins

It does not look like there is a whole lot of interest in selling.

Chuck Sherwood

I think he left because he didn't have much interest in what they were doing.

Lisa Rose

You can even sign up for a particular interest and the site will e-mail if something in that interest comes up.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Tony Bui

It's a personal film, ... It's just something I wanted to say ... It's really your own personal journey.

Martha Stewart

It's all from a very personal point of view.

Kevin Connors

There seems to be so much personal attention.

Edward Meyer

It was the most personal thing in the whole collection, ... It screamed Marilyn.

Theo Epstein

It was a time of personal conflict. We had discord.

Dave Wannstedt

We probably know each other better from an offensive-defensive standpoint than a personal standpoint.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

Jeff Pentland

Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.

Guy Laliberte

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Greg Fitzsimmons

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Ilham Aliyev

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections,

Carla Gugino

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.