Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Maurice Luque

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

Alex Honnold

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.

Anibal Reluz

It could get better, but all in all, we did good. It's experience and it's the first time. We took care of all the areas we need to take care of.

Michelle Bell

I think the police have better things to do than to drive around looking in people's cars checking if they're wear a seat belt. There are other areas of law enforcement that need to be focused on.

Lou Steinberg

He showed real passion for kids. When you are president of Little League and have spent time in the classroom with kids, that's what we were looking for.

Shelton Quarles

I'm not the one to make those decisions. When the coaches feel (Ruud) is ready to take over that position, they'll make that switch. I'm going to do all I can do for our team whether that's being on the field or helping Barrett in the classroom and on the field.

Pam Dixon

You can't slink into the back row of the classroom and tune out,

D. James

The dorm provides students with an opportunity to use language in an informal setting outside the classroom it's like an ongoing German class.

Randall Rothenberg

The big problem here is that people see this purely in terms of either-or. That's not what it's about. This is about opening up a whole new set of tools and a whole new set of opportunities in the range between the classroom and the distance learning experience.

Mark Bollinger

It's been a tough week. It's exam week, but the kids have done a good job of concentrating in the classroom and then concentrating in the gym.

Sharon Miller

It was pretty extensive with the paint thrown on the classroom materials and some physical destruction of equipment.

Jan McDonald

They can grow on their own: plant the seeds, harvest the produce, learn how to cook with it, take it home, learn about nature, the environment and integrate what they learned in the classroom into the garden.

Paula Brown

They've literally flipped the weight. This has been such a shock to classroom teachers.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Fred Eckhard

He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Bryce Kaneshiro

I thought we were going to score one before the end of the game. We had a lot of opportunities on the long throw-ins. We just didn't put it in. I'm extremely proud of my guys.

Tony Battie

It hurts to lose, but we had a good run. We would have loved the season to end on a strong note, especially here at home, to keep that winning streak alive. But it just didn't go our way tonight. We played extremely hard, but just didn't get a break.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa. It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa, ... It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Jeff Raikes

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Knox Fuqua

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

Alan Skrainka

Take IBM out and the market looks pretty much unchanged on the day.

Bob Djurdjevic

Prior to 1994, IBM didn't have the kind of structure it has now. They also had silos,

Larry Rice

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Gordon Bethune

I'd rather have 50 people at 100 percent of their pay than 100 people at 50 percent, ... If you don't pay people what they're worth, they'll go to IBM or somewhere where they are paid what they're worth.

Rob Brydon

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Richard P. Feynman

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Robert Toth

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

William Powell

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

William Joyce

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Werner Erhard

You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work.

Virgil Goode

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

Virginia Madsen

It would be good if you opened your heart to the fullness of time and spirit.

Wayne Dyer

Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships. Rather than regarding your partner's need for time alone as a threat, see it as a time of renewal that you celebrate. Make every effort to help each other have that space. Treat that space as sacred.

Robert Penn Warren

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Robert Penn Warren

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Sandra Fluke

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Sandra Bullock

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

Sandra Bullock

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Lynn Margulis

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Barbara Ryan

You've got to give product away in Africa, ... There's a natural arbitrage where the prices get pressure around the world.

Epictetus

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Jacques Chirac

I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,

Tom Sneddon

It's natural ... why don't you do the same?

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

John Shaw

Our offer is the most valuable and the most straightforward, ... Our record of performance is significantly better than Royal Bank's.

Mukhtar Mai

I offer all the riches I've made out of the panchayat-enforced gang-rape to the president in return for justice.

Carter Ham

Clearly, an AAV (Amtrac) does not offer the same protection a tank does,

Jim Payne

If you can only offer one section of Spanish V it makes scheduling difficult.

Mario Puzo

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse (The Godfather)

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Tony Espinoza

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Ron Chernow

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Tyler Oakley

It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.

Travis Tritt

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Rick Derringer

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

Rex Stout

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!