Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Christoph Eibl

Prices at these levels can't be justified based on fundamentals only. While we haven't seen the top of the market yet, the risk of prices collapsing is very high.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

Prime Minister Koizumi made the visit based on his personal judgment.

Terry Thornton

Prisons have always been desegregated, but had we made housing decisions based on a person's race? Yes. It's no secret that many instances of gang violence in prison are racially motivated.

Darby Williams

People typically only buy wine in grocery stores when they already know they like it. The type they like really is based on the number of taste buds you have.

Mary Bravo

People think that you search based on objects. You think you're seeing everything, but you're really seeing very, very little.

Richard Robinson

Our third quarter was disappointing, and based on our review of these results and their impact on the fourth quarter, we are reducing our outlook for the fiscal year.

Akhilesh Pandey

Our demonstration that a proteins importance is not based on the number of interactions it has with other proteins is an important conceptual breakthrough.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Juan Goytisolo

Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.

Henry Eyring

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Justin Rose

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Michael Allen

It was an emotional roller-coaster all day long. I did not play well at all for most of the day, but I was able to get it together at the end. Making three (birdies) in a row to finish the round at least makes you feel like you had a good day. I got in my own way today, and I've got to figure out a way to rectify that before tomorrow.

Nelson Cundiff

The win was emotional a high and a low. We have great kids. She (Kurtz) apologized for getting hurt. Here we have an injured player, and she's worried about letting me and the team down.

David Taylor

That's key. The grandparents are really looking for support, especially emotional support, people that can relate to their situation.

Tim Gallagher

You're giving up a little in sound and trunk space, and paying a little higher pricing. But it's a more emotional purchase. It gets you out of the mode of taking kids around to soccer games.

Brett Hoebel

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

Lil' Kim

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Ben Fountain

A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

T. S. Eliot

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Rajneesh

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Melody Beattie

Control is an illusion ...

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Georges Bernanos

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Christoph Martin Wieland

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Nick Holmes

I think every relative we know will (be at the game).

Hu Shih

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Gene Vincent

It was the sound that got to me,

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.