Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Henley

As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.

Michael Gregory

As far as the Fed goes, it really isn't inflation on the ground that's a concern, it's inflation down the road. For a very long time, they've offset that with global concerns, but there doesn't appear to be any more world crises to worry about.

Jim Nelson

As far as I could tell, the governor appeared to be trying to get support for the bill on the (Senate) floor.

Randall Luthi

As far as I can estimate from the preliminary projections ... it does appear that we may have unexpected revenues of approximately a billion dollars,

Mark Ternent

As a result of Pennsylvania's large human and bear populations, bears and people are coming into contact frequently. These encounters occur because housing developments and businesses continue to encroach into bear habitat and more bears are living closer to people than ever before. Chance encounters in the field also appear to be more common than before in some areas.

James Mays

As currently envisaged by some proponents, the program would appear to serve more as a revenue-generating scheme than a security program that would benefit passengers.

Anthony Chan

The bottom line is that consumers experienced a soft patch in the first quarter and they appear to be emerging from it,

Chris Morrison

The bottom line is I would expect some form of debt exclusion question to appear on next April's ballot, either to cover the design costs or the whole thing, ... We cannot obtain state approval and the funding that comes with it without a commitment from the voters.

Sean Maloney

The business market remains slow for PCs, but it doesn't appear that we have lost significant market share, ... Average selling prices are about where we thought they would be.

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jim Lynch

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Matthew Lewis

As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Satya Bhabha

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Joe McFarland

The Big Ten is the premier conference, it's the toughest conference, and to do it week in and week out really says a lot about the character of these guys.

Sathya Baba

A virtuous character is the lamp which illumines the path to peace and joy.

Dexter Fletcher

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

Craig Venter

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

Stephane Deo

The big rise in future living standards is clearly linked to tax cuts.

Randy Cunneyworth

At times we're five individuals out there trying to do things. There were opportunities (against Peoria) where we clearly could have shot the puck but we wanted to try a prettier play or a prettier pass.

Richard Jefferies

A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

Scott Anderson

As long as the (sewer) system was leaking that amount, it violated the Montana Water Quality Act. Clearly the leakage was an illegal discharge.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Doug Steenland

Our third-quarter results clearly demonstrate the need for Northwest to restructure expeditiously.

Bryan Miller

The moist, flavorful meat is concealed under a thick slab of crisp fat that would make a cardiologist blanch.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Raymundo Ferrer

This was a concealed explosive device that was left on piles of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanks. This was purely to sow terror.

Wayne Delk

One of the witnesses said they saw Daniels pull his jacket over his head to try and conceal his identity.

Peter Hamm

It's time for the state of Virginia to grow up and say you can't have concealed weapons in the legislature and offices. You don't have a right to put other people's safety at risk in the state legislature.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Jerry Sanders

It's just a culture of concealing things from the public, and this is just another sample of it,

Dan Brown

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Ben Caspit

One day, the prime minister might find himself in one contretemps too many, too late. It could be, incidentally, that that is where he is today.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ron Gardenhire

He's staying within himself right now. He's been working very hard. Hopefully it's going to pay off for him.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Lord Chesterfield

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Dana Gioia

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Giles

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

AJ Case

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Katie Melua

The style of music I make now, that only started when I was about 15,

E. O. Wilson

The show is particularly significant because it was the same show, performed in 1989, that was the first musical in our new theater at its present location,

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Scott Ian

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Wayne Dyer

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Billy Graham

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

Andrew Lau

With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.

Susan Anthony

We need to see whether this is a one-off or more serious.

Jackie Williams

We as women are all winners, whether we are daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, and that's who I will be representing.