Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Samuel Richardson

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Roger Ebert

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Samuel Johnson

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Samuel Johnson

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Ronald Reagan

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Alan Alda

Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Wayne Dyer

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.

Rick Warren

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

Tony Williams

I played with a lot of organ trios because that was one of the big sounds there, and that's what the original Lifetime really was.

Kerry Packer

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Paul Whelton

You can't recreate those samples, ... It's really devastating to the investigators who spent a lifetime putting these studies together faithfully. It's their life's work.

Norman Maclean

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

Tara Cook

It takes a lifetime to get it down pat. It's not something you can pick up in a matter of weeks or months.

Ella Wilcox

Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

Will Rogers

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

William Graham Sumner

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Charles M. Schwab

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

Richard Berthelsen

If there is no union, the labor laws would not apply, so you wouldn't have a lockout.

Ashley Jones

I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

John Wilmot

I'm sorry to see it happen. But who is going to stay in Marina on Labor Day (weekend) to watch a parade?