Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.

Jack Bicknell

That was a great catch, ... He's going to be a good player and is another freshman who we have to try and get on the field. We have some true freshmen like Wheeler, Harrison, Jackson, Brown, and maybe even Chad Beverage and Brian White who can help us this year. We have more true freshman ready to go than I ever remember, and that's a sign of good recruiting.

James Lane

I don't know of any other beverage or herb or anything like that that would help people perk up in the morning.

Larry Twombly

We feel that this is a great deal for both Hat Trick Beverage and Central Park North Records, as both companies are growing, and as Hat Trick Beverage is investing more resources in the Urban and Hispanic markets.

Gordon Absher

Top chefs will indeed be a part of our food and beverage program. We are in the process of consulting with chefs we may invite to be part of our IR (integrated resort).

William Lyon Mackenzie King

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

John Sicher

Wal-Mart's growth and power is changing how consumers buy products and how beverage companies sell products. The lawsuit is about Coke and its bottlers trying to come to terms with that.

Paul Rogers

Our fund has focused on consumer staples, like food and beverages and tobacco, where we think despite the economic environment of the region those companies will continue to see strong cash flow.

Garry Winogrand

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Nicole Holofcener

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

F. Sionil Jose

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

David Marschall

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

Matthew Pearl

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

Tim Kuykendall

While a good portion of the money collected goes to the custodial parents to help in raising their kids,

Matt Flynn

I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

Keith Urban

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

Nick Mangold

He didn't put anything in the bank. He collected it. It's like living with a person during the Depression. It was all in a safe. Before that, he had it hidden throughout his room. I guess his grandfather does that, that's where he got it from.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Robert McKinley

Vote with your feet, ... Do more comparison shopping. Know what the fees are. Read carefully, and if you don't see something you like, go elsewhere.

Pierre Schaeffer

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

Peter Riegert

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Peter T. King

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

Stephany Smith

I was very pleased with our fight and our performance. Especially in comparison to our previous game in Tennessee.

Mark LaNeve

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006.

Paul Cellucci

We have some significant differences on a number of specific issues. But our policy differences pale in comparison to overall scope of our cooperation,

Chris Beard

I don't think a comparison of the raw count of vulnerabilities is representative of the security of a product,

Francis Bacon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Gillian Armstrong

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Marc Bulger

We need to have Steven in this game a whole lot more. When the D-line can tee off, it makes it awfully tough on our linemen, and they're dropping eight guys and it's tough for our guys to get open.

Chris Lander

We just didn't make baskets the second half. We've got to be able to shoot from the outside. We had some good looks, but couldn't drop the shots.

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Vic Santoro

We were hoping he would go under 53 seconds, but we're pleased with his drop in time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Chino Moreno

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

Rick Lynch

The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect.

Tito Mboweni

The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far more muted than expected.

David Hanson

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Dave Wilson

That will have ripple effects throughout the health-care system, especially those individuals in Nova Scotia that are waiting for surgeries.

Yolanda Adams

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

Idina Menzel

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

Gail Carriger

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

S. Truett Cathy

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

Bee Wilson

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Vidya Balan

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

Nancy Pelosi

Just because he says things are improving there, doesn't make it so.

Jean Turner

We all need good, vital, improving schools; we're all in this together.

Aubrey Taylor

I have been improving every meet. I want to keep improving.

Ron Hutchins

He kept his cool. He played percentage tennis and that's what we've been working on. I think he's going to be a leader for us one of these days. He's improving daily.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

David Marsh

This was a strong day for us, so we should have scored a lot of points. We did, and I am very pleased with that. We will have to keep improving from here.

Brian Kernighan

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

Dolly Parton

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Noreena Hertz

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Jon Wilkins

We have also negotiated with Royal Mail that, instead of the paper process by which they sign for receipt of mail, they will sign our drivers' pocket PCs, which means the information can go straight on our website.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

Scott Horne

Typically the rule with respect to publicizing information is that if it's information that a person could obtain by sitting in the courtroom, then release of that information through the media is allowed.

Joe Torre

We have a lot of information to digest.

Mark Fulghum

We've got some information, but we've got a long way to go. We still have a lot of unanswered questions.

Jim Rogers

We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

C. S. Lewis

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

C. S. Lewis

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Robert Wagner

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Arnold Rothstein

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Antonia Fraser

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Michael Lynch

We have worked with Bode for several years now and know the type of person he is. Yes, he has been provocative, but we also recognize that he's revolutionized his sport and has energized the Turin Games, which is a positive for all of us who are vested in their success.

Rutina Wesley

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Lance Bass

We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively.

Richard Mitchell

We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.

William Shakespeare

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.