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.

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Cindy Sheehan

The 56,000,000-plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda,

Hilary Clinton

The American people have waited a long time for this day and we must not let this opportunity slip away. All Americans in all plans must have these basic rights. That's what this is about: Are you for or against all Americans and all plans having these basic rights,

Larry Sabato

The American people have turned against the war, and they're not turning back.

Iqbal Khan

The appeal on the bail decision by the High Court will be filed tomorrow and it can be accommodated for as soon as possible compared to the appeal against the High Court judgment.

Thomas Barnett

The Antitrust Division will vigorously enforce this requirement against any company that assumes operational control of a business that it is acquiring.

Ron Bringewatt

The anticipation is, people will bid against each other and drive the price up.

Jim Hoffa

The arrogance of Sikorsky has been astounding. As one of our country's major defense contractors, Sikorsky throughout this ordeal showed its disdain for workers, our elected officials and ultimately, the American taxpayers. This company is the poster child for bad behavior and corporate greed. We will continue our fight against this company and against the growing, unchecked power of all of big business in America.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Jason Kidd

That won the game for us, (Jefferson's defense) and Jacque's two shots.

Adrienne Shelly

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

Mario Cuomo

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

Francesca Schiavone

I was very focused, very motivated today and managed to impose my tactics.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Daniel Everett

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

Jerry Kilgore

He'll have the power if he wins to impose a case-by-case moratorium in Virginia. He's misleading the voters.

John Barton

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Leos Carax

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Carl Sagan

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Tommy Amaker

That was a role reversal from last time. That was a key today.

Spencer Taylor

That was the key to the game. Somebody was going to start making some shots, so it was going to be us or them and fortunately for us, we got some together.

Sean Taylor

That was the key play of the game. That sort of put it away.

Paul Hatcher

That was a key stretch. When Greensville took that lead, I wondered how the kids would respond. We haven't trailed in many games, and especially on this stage. Everyone stepped up with Hosea on the bench.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

David Vallee

It's rare to have a system of that magnitude back up.

Jim Lushine

It's probably going to stand for quite a while because of the magnitude of it there.

Scott Hand

It's not unusual for a transaction of the magnitude of ours to move to a second phase.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Roy Jorgenson

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Lance Armstrong

Those are motivating moments for me. That's the way I can give back to someone who is in the same position I was.

Randy Shaffer

I have my moments - my ups and downs.

Jeff Fager

What you get on Yahoo is an expanded version of different moments in the story.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think it is tough; I think it is difficult. But you know that's just the nature of our business. I'm sure he has moments of frustration and/or disappointment. But he has a lot of fiber.

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.