Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Meehan

At a time when so much of the world questions our commitment to our own values, I urge my colleagues to show the American people and the world that we will defend our country but we will do so in a way that protect those rights that make it worth defending.

Gordon Brown

A strong European, a committed internationalist, and a distinguished foreign secretary with friends in every country, he will be mourned greatly not only by his family, friends, colleagues and constituents, but in every continent of the world.

Will Smith

They're your relatives, sons, daughters ... colleagues and employees. Just people with a dream.

George Voinovich

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life, ... Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

Robert Pozen

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Alan Alda

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

Sen. McCoy

People had some preconceived notions about what my purpose was. Over time, being there and working with my colleagues in the Senate and the House . . . that falls away as the defining characteristic." ()

Todd Tiahrt

I vote in favor of protecting traditional marriage between one man and one woman today and I encourage my colleagues to vote for H.J. Res. 88.

Mack Brown

The other thing I would say about Vince Young is he just had the highest passing efficiency of any quarterback in the country. We're very complicated with what we do offensively, and he's won 30 and lost two. He would have graduated next fall.

John Winters

They make a big thing about productivity improvements and increased efficiency and all that but they're not putting the money back into the business.

Brian Pearce

This past year has seen the sharp rise in fuel prices more than offset the efficiency gains and a strong revenue environment.

Chris Newton

It's all about efficiency and smarter selling, and it really runs their business.

Sen. David

Your performance has not only been outstanding, it has been dazzling. We haven't seen a commissioner move with such efficiency and expediency as you have for a long time.

Doug Liman

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Bruce Lee

Efficiency is anything that scores.

Earl Hesterberg

We are very pleased to have experienced automotive people like Steve join our team. We need this type of leader to help us improve our overall operating efficiency while simultaneously growing our company.

Steve Smith

We want to get several ideas on energy efficiency before we make a decision.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Jeff Tageant

We started out kind of slow but we finished strong.

Nia Long

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

Tim Fletcher

We?re starting now to get the work finished prior to the summer travel season.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material.

Dan Flores

We're still talking. Though we want to get it finished soon, I just can't speculate on when it's going to be.

Jessie Evans

We've wanted to do it all year. He just hasn't given us a reason to because he hasn't finished plays.

Jeff Carter

We knew what we had to do. And we went out and finished it off.

Nick Anurak

We knew we were working hard so we knew we could do it. We executed and got it done. We did everything perfect and we got nine champs and everyone placed. That was our goal to get everyone to place and we did. We feel good but we feel incomplete because we are not finished yet. We are out to win the state championship and that's what we're striving for.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

Edward Hopper

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Arnold Bennett

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Sgt. Delaney

We have to go through them. There's hours of work left to do.

Dr. Whyte

We have to get them that medicine within three hours of the onset of symptoms, which is the challenge.

Aaron Tveit

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Neil Patrick Harris

Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.

Leslie Mann

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

William Cooper

We've got a ton of wood left and we'd like to get rid of it.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

William Mitchell

What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Plaxico Burress

The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

John Cain

As recently as three years ago, none of this development was here.

Ahmed Ali

accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him.

Nicholas Scoppetta

There were 22 interventions during that little girl's six years of life, and none of it prevented her death. I think the system was not functioning in those days.

Susan Jones

It's a little ironic. But none of us are impervious.

Dean Cox

It's a year none of us want to repeat.

Dean Cain

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Peter Kalikow

We're going to stay with the old rule,

Frank Tolbert

We're going to stay together and get through this.

Ben Roethlisberger

We're going to stay loose. We're going to have our fun.

Mr Bush

We're going to stay as long as it takes.

Hobart Alter

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

Bryan Volpenhein

Surfing - I have to go surfing.

Caroline Corr

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Alana Blanchard

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

Brody Jenner

All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.

Brian May

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

Andy Irons

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

Christopher Meloni

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

AnnaSophia Robb

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Madeleine Albright

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

Michael Porter

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Carl Jung

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Chief Seattle

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Chief Seattle

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

Dhani Harrison

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

David Karp

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Ban Ki-moon

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

Donald Miller

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

Serena Williams

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

Scott Sanders

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

Noam Chomsky

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.