Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

Kathy Johnson

Build up their self esteem to let them know they have options, they have opportunities beyond what they experience.

Leo Nikolaevich

Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life

James L. Petigru

No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its proper sphere of action.

Keith Ernst

For years, the debate over predatory lending has been conducted in an information vacuum. Now we know, beyond a doubt, that these laws work, and that they don't harm consumers.

Ted Saskin

Frankly I think the ongoing participation in the Olympics, that decision will have a lot to do with what we do with World Cup or not. But again, it's early to say. We're committed to Vancouver in 2010 and if we're not committed beyond that (to the Olympics) I could easily see a World Cup.

Burke Magnus

From a general sense, there's certainly more than enough product out there for more than one network to be in this space. I hesitate to call it a niche, because it's way beyond a niche.

Joseph Domenech

If a poultry epidemic should develop beyond the boundaries of Nigeria the effects would be disastrous for the livelihoods and the food security of millions of people.

Stephen Girsky

GM can't hold out much longer beyond this week.

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.

Stu Barnes

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

Larry Rothschild

He finished up pretty strong. Everything's where we thought it would be. We'll pick it up the next time and keep building on it.

John Sacchi

He doesn't wait around like some of younger wrestlers or even some of the experienced guys. Steve gets the lead and keeps building on it.

Grant Tolbert

He may have made some phone calls, but a phone call doesn't correct a deficiency. The way I'm looking at it is we've had it for a month out of that seven month period, and that's very common for a building permit.

Henry Willis

Response to a large building collapse requires protection different than what emergency responders are typically provided. The hazards following the collapse of a large multi-story building are larger and more uncertain, and the duration of the response is much longer than usual.

Joe LaVorgna

Inventory building last quarter was less than what we were thinking, which actually bodes better for growth this quarter. Current quarter growth prospects are bright.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

Paul Tergat

I have been at the New York City marathon several times to watch but this time I'm delighted and excited to be competing myself. The field is very strong.

Mitchell Rasansky

I think Southwest needs to step up to the plate. We can't have the city of Dallas continue to subsidize Southwest Airlines.

William Jarvis

Jeff really has local Washington sensibilities. . . . He understands the city and demonstrated it when he put together a team with deep local roots.

Ronne Froman

Jerry very much wanted to have somebody who was sitting around his table advising us on the day-to-day stuff. We had no ethics person for the whole city staff, right down to the grass roots.

Tahmoh Penikett

L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.

Pat Riley

I think every team has a prodigal son, probably. What he's given to the city as much as what he's given to the team, the fans, has been extraordinary.

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.

Dick Enberg

The ecstatic leap of two years ago ? smiling and subtle today. Phil Mickelson, at 35, connecting his personal legacy with the legends and tradition of The Masters.

Bobby Clark

It was a 0-0 tie, it was one of these games. We had some good moments; we had some moments where we didn't connect as well as we would have liked.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Mary Davis

I'll probably try to do a horse design. Something simple.

Paquin Estrada

I let the game run its course, but I already have my design in my head. I know that in the late innings there's going to be more pressure, but it was designed for the pressure and knowing my people can do it. When you have these kinds of people, you can't let the pressure get to you. Use intelligence.

Dries van Noten

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Martin C. Smith

The interior follows the same direction as the exterior design.

Robert Bacarella

Their work on the design side of semiconductors is strong. They are growing faster than their peers and they have a lot of movement and momentum right now.

Neal Stephenson

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Neal Stephenson

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Neal Stephenson

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Scott Thomas

If you make learning lecture-based alone, it detracts from the desire to know what's going on. You have to make it real for kids.

Danny Wuerffel

If using my name to get Desire Street in the door so people will listen is my God-given purpose, then so be it.

Michelangelo

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Layne Beachley

I haven't prepared as much I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

Dema Kovalenko

I'm just glad to get out of here with a win. I think it's easier to play with MLS teams than play with these teams because of their desire and how they play. They're looking for that one chance. It would be nice to go out and put them away after 20 minutes, but it's never going to be like that.

John Carson

If Museveni succeeds in his desire to win a third term, we may be looking at another Mugabe and Zimbabwe in the making.

Kelvin Sampson

I have no desire to go anywhere. I have a desire to make my team better. . . . It ain't time for me to go yet.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Stephen Rubin

I have never seen him so happy writing something.

Laveranues Coles

I'm very happy with where I'm at and I'm very comfortable here.

Ryan Smyth

I'm very happy with this deal, especially since we didn't have to go through the arbitration process,

Frank Michalowski

I'm very happy with the year - especially with the size of my team.

John Tortorella

I'm very happy with the way the organization is working.

Michael Sim

I'm very happy with the way I played today. I'm also very surprised to be leading the tournament after an even-par round.

A.J. Burnett

I'm very pleased with the outcome and the results. I probably could have thrown 10 or 15 more, if I wanted to, but overall I'm really happy with how I threw.

Bob Schmidt

I'm very pleased with the meet. I saw a lot of competitive effort, and I saw the kids taking a lot of pride in what they were doing. I'm happy for them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Dinesh D'Souza

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Dick Morris

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Deepak Chopra

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

Amber Tamblyn

For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

Amartya Sen

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Amartya Sen

Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

David Harvey

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Andrew Pyper

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Anne F. Beiler

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

Chuck Reed

We need those officers. We pay them well in order to keep them, and that's why they got raises.

Kathleen Huddy

Unfortunately, over the years, manufacturers and retailers, in order to sell more sheets, have pushed thread count.

Rita Mae Brown

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Thomas Browne

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Robert McNamara

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

Richard Branson

Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.

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,

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,

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.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Georgia May Jagger

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

Harry Reid

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.