Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Legge

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

Jamie Oliver

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

Rijkman Groenink

We achieved strong results during the year, driven by strong organic growth in all our consumer and commercial client businesses. This organic growth reflects the benefits of continuing focus on the strong local relationships we have with our mid-market clients.

Bob Starkell

We achieved some of our goals that we were looking forward to doing. Overall we made an improvement from last week, and now we can start working on cleaning things up and being really sharp.

James Cayne

We achieved solid results this quarter, despite more volatile market conditions and declining trading volumes, predominantly in the fixed-income markets. Furthermore, weakness in the Nasdaq, particularly technology shares, led to a decline in equity new issue activity.

Kevin Kennedy

We achieved significant gross margin improvement driven by the strong performance of our recently acquired Communications Test and Measurement business,

Robin Li

We achieved robust earnings growth while making significant investments in search technology, products, network capacity, sales and distribution, and most importantly, in people.

George Bell

We achieved profitability for the first time this quarter, and we now are poised to drive broadband growth more aggressively than ever,

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Al Sharpton

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Paul House

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Mike Reed

We approached this as a must-win game because it solidifies our fifth seed in districts, and kept us in the second-half race if somehow God delivered some miracle and Halifax lost.

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

John Mendel

We're still the only manufacturer that's actually delivered a hydrogen vehicle (an FCX) to a customer.

Tony Ridder

As promised, we delivered a very strong earnings-per-share (excluding nonrecurring items) performance in 1998. We did this in a year where not everything was going our way, which demonstrates our ability-and commitment-to tight management despite soft revenues in key markets.

David Seibert

A lot of our supplies went to the police department because a lot of those officers lost everything they had. We delivered a lot of uniforms to those officers.

Mary Farrell

They have every reason to be optimistic, in that the market has delivered incredibly in the last three years.

Tom Malin

They were just reporting the news that had been delivered to them.

Tim Ghriskey

Its valuation means it's priced for perfection and perfection was not delivered this quarter.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Bernard Baruch

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Charlie Hunnam

It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.

Charles M. Schulz

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

William Shakespeare

God grant us patience!

Rob Blake

Until we know exactly what took place ... that's why there's an investigation. Until you know the total facts, it's kind of difficult to talk about.

Jim Grant

Until we can get some really good rain to keep the fuels moist, it is really difficult to fight a fire.

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Charlie Fink

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Rebecca Murrell

We have a standoff of witnesses. It's never easy to tell who's telling the truth.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

Sir Jones

They represent a growing market for value-added goods that we can produce and deliver.

Junichi Makino

There is uncertainty over the trend of imports of IT (information technology) goods in the US, where IT investment is running at a historically high level,

Adrian Bowyer

People can start manufacturing goods at a low price,

Fred Williams

A number of pawn shops and sporting goods stores were hit,

Pat Buchanan

We'll keep your goods out unless you let our goods in.

John Berthoud

Every person in the U.S., including those here illegally, would help to pay for government whenever they purchase goods and services.

Evan Kohlmann

You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth.

Ron Paul

We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Greg Waldrop

All of my qualified students are 100 percent employed. Not every student is qualified.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Dave Henderson

Sand sculpting is a performing art. Just like a play when the show is over, all we have is a memory.

Carter Burwell

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

Barry Sternlicht

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Neil Diamond

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Michael Owen

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Craig Faulkner

We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

Gerald Cox

It seems like we've been on the road forever. It really does.

Rudyard Kipling

They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.

Jason Richardson

It's the first road win of the season and when you play at the Garden, you always want to win.

Stan Williams

It's an unusual year for us. We've got a lot of road work going on in different phases.

Miriam Landsman

It's a really country-looking road and if they take out all of those trees, it's going to be very sad.

S. E. Hinton

There's a lot of road to go for them and us. But we'll see.

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Jeff Perreault

The ref made the right call, but it was a tough call.

John Mulcahy

As we thought about it, we thought it was kind of a tough deal: now they have them, now they don't.

Randy Coleman

It's kind of been a tough day in McDowell County.

Michael Schwartz

It's kind of a tough question. The marketplace for this type of collectible is very volatile.

Jamont Gordon

It's just real tough on the road. We got to take it to another level.

Rocky Hager

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Jim Epperly

It's a tough place to go and win.

Rod Barnes

They tried to trap him, make things tough on him.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.