Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Smith

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

Simon Schama

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Anthony Chan

Next week's producer price index or consumer price index could tip the Fed in favor of a June hike if they're on the upside.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Jill Krutick

Cheese, while a consumer product, is very different than toys which can be fad-driven,

Daragh Maher

One month's out performance does not mean the long-awaited consumer revival has arrived.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Janet Reno

Money laundering is a problem for the whole world, ... We're here to work with you to be as effective a partner as we can.

Gary Holt

We ended up with an effective sentence of 5 1/2 years, so that's pretty close. I would be hard pressed to be upset over a question of six months.

Doug Campbell

This is a very exciting development for us, and will give us even greater production capabilities to produce some of the effective programs in the world.

David Boies

There are a variety of ways people can market browsers. The question is: Are they effective ways to market browsers?

Kevin Lam

The project paid for itself in a single month. Every 30 minutes your gain is millions of dollars. It's effective when you work with a large workforce.

Ruth Frechman

The only effective solution is to make them off-limits.

Ann Falsey

We've known for more than 100 years that hand washing prevents infection, but we still can't get people to wash their hands. Hand washing is the simplest, most effective way to keep from getting sick and making others sick.

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Drew Carey

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Susan Cain

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Phil Jackson

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

Richard Gere

What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find things that are parallel or resonant in the work that I have done.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

Chucky Atkins

In the playoffs, the key for us is how tough we are and are we going to go get the rebounds.

Jim Fassel

I just keep trying a different key in that lock to see what can get us unlocked and going,

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Seth Godin

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Noam Chomsky

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

Noam Chomsky

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

Noam Chomsky

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Kumi Naidoo

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

Kim Basinger

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Tomi Taterka

People are talking about another problem in Argentina.

Lee McConnell

People are taking this storm quite seriously." ()

Dorothy Poindexter

People are sweet this time of year and it's great.

David Peck

People are surprised by my portion size and portion control.

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Marty Sanders

It makes the year-to-year planning very difficult, especially with class-size reduction.

John Lennon

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Evelyn Waugh

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

Eudora Welty

It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.

Fran Lebowitz

People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.

G. Stanley Hall

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Chris Ware

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

George W. Bush

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

Garry Winogrand

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.