Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

William Pepper

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

Nik Nanos

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

Gloria Feldt

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Jeffrey Toobin

Michael Jackson is one of the dozen best-known people in the world, and he is facing extremely serious criminal charges. That is a very big news story.

Allen Lichtenstein

You just don't have criminal trials dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, intentional or unintentional.

Rush Holt

We have an oversight responsibility regardless of what criminal investigations may or may not be under way.

Andi Mallarangeng

The president also wants to make sure that our legal justice system, our criminal system is working, that they can work and function as it should be in investigating this case.

Eric Holder

I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

Eugene Fidell

It does look like there were some major gaps in the earlier investigations, which were not criminal investigations incidentally.

Oscar Isaac

You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

Hailee Steinfeld

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

Ron Lynam

Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.

Dana Reeve

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

N. K. Jemisin

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

William Shakespeare

We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.

Steve Hamilton

Some of these bathrooms defy description, ... There's no way to go into a judge and a jury and describe what you're seeing.

Jose Garcia

The only thing that can justify this is to give the people a moment to party, and a way to defy the fear of terrorism. In other words we'll have life in all its splendor,

Susanna Clarke

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

Brian Bruce

With the end of employee discounts, I think there's going to be a halt of traffic to GM's showrooms. It's never a good time for a disruption like this, but GM could have had it at a worse time.

Barry Diller

I can't imagine that there'll be any disruption of any kind, in any area, on any level or in any particular. It just simply seems to me actually impossible.

John Ashcroft

from investigation and prosecution to disruption and prevention.

Phil Bredesen

Until you sit down and talk with someone who's been through this, it's hard to imagine ... the type of disruption this has placed in people's lives,

Lucy Jones

We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, most of our transportation systems. We are going to have a disruption to our infrastructure in a way that is going to take months to recover from.

Bill Adams

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

Lawrence Eagles

We have responded to a very specific physical supply disruption and we will review that response as we go further forward.

Rob Yingling

The extent to which the disruption is being felt by passengers is minimal at this point because there's been enough taxis from outside operators making pickups.

Robin S. Sharma

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Michael Foreman

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Tony Marshall

I feel rapt that we will now see the tangible results of the money.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Antoine Fuqua

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Bertrand Russell

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Robert Kiyosaki

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.