Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Brand

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Rev. Donaldson

I thought somebody had just died, either her mother or my father. When she said the church was on fire, I thought it was probably just the kitchen area. I couldn't conceive that the church building could be gone.

Stu Barnes

I think we were better start to finish. It's a building block.

Rod Graves

I think what it does demonstrate is that we're committed to building a strong nucleus for our football team, and part of that effort is making the right decision about the players you reinvest in. We just consider Kurt Warner part of that process, to reinvest in quality people and quality players.

Mark Rice

It gives us a chance in the building code industry to publicize some things and get people aware.

Grover Norquist

He is a conviction politician like Ronald Reagan; he's also been a party builder. DeLay always kept his eye on building party and the movement, and that's rare.

Jim Richardson

He felt deeply about his community and the role we should play as a business and as employees in building a better Lebanon, Marion County and Commonwealth of Kentucky, ... Sure, he was a large contributor toward many worthwhile projects. But we will always remember him for his support of our community through his investment of human capital. His encouragement wasn't just lip service either. Gene led by example. And perhaps most memorable of all to me, Gene did what he did, not for glory and personal recognition. He did it because as he put it himself, 'Somebody needed to... and it's the right thing to do.'

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Drew Pearson

Now, we've got a good group of juniors and seniors, and they seem to be committed to doing the right thing.

David Leitch

He understands that this is a different kind of process, and he's committed to working through it. That doesn't necessarily mean he enjoys every part of it, or that he is taking anything for granted.

David Woolner

One of the critical things he saw was not returning to isolationism. That, he said, would lead to disaster. Roosevelt was very much committed that the U.S. play a proper role in the U.N.

Peter Wright

I was pleased with our hitting. We only struck out twice. Overall I was pleased with how we played our first game. On defense we only committed one error.

Dorne Hall

She's a pretty motivated kid. She's always trained hard, but she really trained even harder all summer, even after she'd already committed to BYU.

Holly Veloso

She's committed (and) she's got the right mental toughness for it.

Gray Davis

Should we recall a sitting governor who's committed no crime, who's not mentally incompetent and has done some very positive things over the last several years, for this other fellow about whom some doubts have been raised by some reputable papers?

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Alonzo Mourning

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

Anne Robinson

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Daniel Kahneman

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Daniel Kahneman

Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Daniel Kahneman

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

Daniel Kahneman

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

Daniel Kahneman

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Paul Taibl

That is an issue that could be handled in some other way. It doesn't require the whole BRAC effort to be derailed.

Chris Abel

It's special, especially in a team sport. It took a team effort to win. We weren't looking at this game as his 300th win, we just looked at it as our first game of the season.

Mike Greene

It's something we've needed. It's nice when you have someone to take that pressure off when a team's sole strategy is to take things away from Megan. That helps quite a bit. If there was a game we needed somebody to step up, it was that one and it was a tremendous effort on Julie's part.

Jim Phillips

It's sort of what I do. It's been a team effort here.

Doug McCrary

That goes to show the type of team that we have right now. They're staying together, they're focused. We didn't win the game, but we played hard. They're upset, but they feel good about the effort they gave." ()

Steve Erickson

Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Ehud Barak

support the American effort to put an end to the violence and to stabilize the situation on the ground.

Larry Pearson

It's controversial because when they started they told us it was a grass-roots effort and would be done entirely by volunteers in the community.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Trevor Brooking

I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing. You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Xabi Alonso

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

Zinedine Zidane

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

Zinedine Zidane

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

Jeff Mullins

Playing football gave me the option of having school paid for while doing something I love,

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Mario Monti

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Paulo Coelho

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

Quentin Tarantino

A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Plutarch

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Phoebe Cates

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.

Mike Johanns

Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alberto Juantorena

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Babacan

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Algernon Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.