Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Joseph Jackson

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

Marvin Davis

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

Gustave Stresemann

The old and the new struggled for control. Whoever writes its history must not merely look at the surface of things but rather look into its depths.

Jim Barksdale

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Steve Case

After graduating from high school I went to college in Massachusetts - Williams College, a small liberal arts school which I really enjoyed.

Gordon Getty

The most important concern is that the children's needs be addressed with a minimum of disruption, and this will be our first priority.

Jimmy Wales

No, we don't pay for publicity, never have and most likely never will; it hasn't been necessary, and I don't see that it will be necessary.

Ron D. Burton

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

Sammy Morris

As far as the coaching staff, it seems like they find out what guys do well and apply it on the field. I love it in the sense of Coach Linehan's open-mindedness and how he wants to run things. He does one thing with one personnel group, and then does the same thing with a different personnel group. It looks different, but sometimes it's the same thing. It's the best way to attack a defense.

Jeb Bush

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Mark Bennett

People think Hawaii is paradise, it looks wonderful, they apply for a job from the mainland, they take it, they live here for a year or so -- maybe that was their intent from the beginning.

Andy Beal

Offline advertisers will no longer be content to be told that their radio ad will be heard by a potential audience size or demographic. Instead, they'll come to expect detailed reports and accountability. They'll want to know how effective the radio ad was and whether it resulted in new business. The same level of accountability that search marketers have been held to will now apply to traditional advertising. Expect the skills learned by those search marketers to be in very high demand.

Kim Moore

Depending on how we do, we will have an opportunity to apply for it a second year.

Gerhard Schroeder

An excuse that one finds the same or similar elsewhere does not apply to us,

Ron Davis

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

Dale Bennett

These legislators are trying to apply common sense to a process that has gone on too long and has done nothing to actually improve I-81.

Edilberto Adan

The strategy is to apply military pressure and at the same time talk to them and communicate,

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Alain de Botton

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Bill Hybels

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Walter Ekard

We had systems going down, and in some cases, service levels were worse than before.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Dolly Parton

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Ann Marie Buerkle

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

David Steel

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tim O'Brien

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.