Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Faulks

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?

Eric Yu

As one of the world's most ambitious IPv6 projects, all of China's major service providers and communications networks are participating in the CNGI project.

Meg Casper

People think it's a little ambitious but we feel we need to be prepared for the maximum and not get caught unprepared. We have committed to do this.

Aaron Greenberg

Our ambitious goal here is to build Xbox Live into an online entertainment network. The announcement of our deal with Epic Records is a big step in that direction.

Heather Hedrick

Commuter rail is a very ambitious endeavor. That is all the more reason we would want the Legislature to be involved in the process.

Gary Loveman

The three partners in this ambitious venture share a determination to see that international guests are pleasantly overwhelmed by their experience at Baha Mar.

John Hurt

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

Mike Birbiglia

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

Princeton Review

Some tell us that Hawaii is half and half, half 'study nonstop' and half 'don't know what studying means.' Others, however, feel that 'while there's a handful of students who have ambitious career objectives are focused on studying, the typical student is focused mainly on the beach or going to the clubs.'

Fred Diaz

An overriding spirit of humanity became a stronger force in play on Sept. 11 in the compassion and courage in the attempt to save lives,

Mahathir Mohamad

ASEAN must resist and reject such attempts at coercion,

Anil Sahin

As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, however, I am disgusted with this attempt to play politics with the basic rights of free speech and expression.

Chris Hanks

As a managed service provider, we focus on customer availability throughout high demand periods. We spend time with each of our customers forecasting peak loads and attempt to accommodate as deemed necessary. For some customers it's just a matter of flexible bandwidth coverage for peak events while other customers require more grid related environments. It is not unusual for us to cluster robust hardware, software, security and balanced environments specifically geared towards the high demand.

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Dan McTeague

The broadcast was another attempt to reinforce the message that we are all working together.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

D. James

Australian consumers will have to tighten their budgets, spend less at the shopping mall and attempt to pare back existing debt.

Nicholas Kristof

At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.

Bill Day

Any future development of those three parcels is not spelled out within the 50-year vision. At this point in time, there is nothing as far as designation for any future development.

Scott Mathieson

An out's an out. It doesn't matter how far it goes.

Ann Cooper

As far as we know the military has conducted full investigations into only a handful of incidents and made public its reports on just two of them,

Virginia Kice

As far as we know, that's the largest single seizure of cocaine at the airport.

H. Hunt

As far as we know, it's the only meeting of its kind in the Treasure Valley.

Efraim Zuroff

As far as we know he is in Spain. There is speculation he might have left.

Paul Gallo

As far as we can understand when it comes to the blueberry, it comes to a harvesting of poop,

Paul Gallo

As far as we can understand when it comes to the blueberry, ... it comes to a harvesting of poop.

Tasnim Aslam

As far as we are concerned, we are prepared to open all five.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Action Bronson

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Don Rittner

As an historian, what I do today doesn't matter to me - until tomorrow.

Stewart Tuttle

As a matter of policy, we don't talk to terror organizations.

Marcus Thomas

As a matter of fact, we're going to have to enlarge Scoop.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Fernando Vargas

As a matter of fact, I have to have my snack right now.

Tony Terry

Aubrey pitched well. No matter who's pitching, they'll put it into play.

Scott Baker

A win is a win. It doesn't matter if it's the Royals or the Indians. Every win is important.

Wayne Perry

As long as I've been here, it's going to come. It's just a matter of when. We'd like to get it out of the way so we don't have to worry about it anymore. But I know, as a a staff, we haven't talked about it at all.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Ron Peterson

Very seldom it happens, but occasionally it does.

William Shakespeare

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.

Peter Takirambudde

Any transfer to the UN could take months.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.