Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Ivar Giaever

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Geoff Hoon

I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.

Warren Farrell

I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

Wesley Clark

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Elizabeth Warren

There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

David A. Bednar

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

David Byrne

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

Philip Baggaley

The pilots are the last major labor group to reach a preliminary agreement (except for striking mechanics who have been replaced) and the largest source of labor savings being sought by the airline.

George Rodriguez

We have to watch out for the mom-and-pop stores. They did not move out, they did not capitulate. They served the clients in the area.

Rick Greene

Typically, hospital clients just don't have the internal resources. They don't have the depth of resources on staff, so it's a natural evolution to go to an outside source for that.

Paul Otellini

We've known for a decade, since Intel was involved in the Desktop Management Task Force, that desktop clients need better security and better management visibility.

Terry Trippler

We have clients who are very finicky about their seats. I think they'll pay that extra $15.

Tony Perez

We have clients on the home side that have five or six computers with the sort of equipment you'd see in a small business,

Paul Downes

My clients are fighting for their lives in the port of Miami, and the losses they will suffer are very substantial indeed.

David Kock

My client keeps on saying he is not guilty.

Richard Katz

My client . . . is extremely upset and offended at the personal affronts contained in the letter directed not only at him but also at his players.

James Rubin

My client is entitled to a presumption of innocence at this point.

Ian Wright

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

Will Carling

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

Paul Parker

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

Paul Parker

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

Paul Parker

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

Paul Parker

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

Paul Gascoigne

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

Paul Gascoigne

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

Paul Gascoigne

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

Scott Jones

That was huge. We had 23 shots (on goal) tonight, some on target and some not, but hopefully (the goals) will just keep on coming.

Lee Sterrey

We could have scored more goals in the first half.

Ernie Merrick

We played Perth off the park. If we keep playing like that, we'll score more goals and we'll win more than we lose.

Jaime Contreras

We have the same goals, and that is what is going to keep up strong.

Greg Marsden

We're where we need to be at this time, improving every week. We have some very specific goals for this meet.

Dusty Auxier

We have had problems playing teams that don't have good records. This is the first time this year we have led wire to wire. One of our goals was to run and if we didn't have anything, to set it up in the half court.

John LaFontaine

We haven't scored three goals in weekend on the power-play in a long time.

Michael Center

Winning the Big 12 was one of our goals at the start of the regular season.

Eric Benhamou

While we remain optimistic about the long-term growth opportunities in the sector, we are disappointed that we will not meet our revenue and profitability goals this quarter.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.