Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

E. Hicks

Usually, the trip to the gym is the first thing to go when our schedules get tight. But, as competition for members grows, fitness centers are taking steps like offering child care and a greater variety of fitness classes to make working out more appealing and convenient, no matter when you get around to it.

Lauren Chattman

With the temperature the way it is this time of year, anything from the refrigerator sounds so much more appealing than something from the oven.

Scott Wren

Most companies want their stock to be appealing to a wide audience.

Tom Burt

Microsoft is appealing the District Court's preliminary ruling because Microsoft does not believe any preliminary injunction should have been ordered. We are confident that Microsoft has developed the best Java implementation within the terms of our contract with Sun and in the best interests of Java developers and consumers.

Cassandra Peterson

It didn't sound that appealing and it wasn't paying much, ... They liked a character that I was doing that was sort of a Valley girl type ...They said they wanted me to do that character but come up with some sort of outfit that was spooky.

Steve Duplessie

It is completely unrealistic to think that remote office operations are going to get rid of all the functions they run, no matter how appealing the concept. Microsoft plays a role at both ends of the WAN, so I like the Tacit Networks' implementation of providing Microsoft-based services locally while centralizing the data itself back at the corporate data center.

Kevin Gibson

We didn't do it to be angry, we did it to look cool. We thought it would be appealing to us.

J. R. Moehringer

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Christina Baker Kline

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Dennis Miller

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Darell Hammond

Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.

John C. Calhoun

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

Nancy Grace

To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

Nick Lachey

It all comes back to the same place, whether she does well, I do well, or we both do well, which is obviously what we're hoping for. It's all good. You know? We're definitely pull for each other.

Park Seung

The polarization between households and the corporate sector is a phenomenon seen in the course of the economic restructuring process.

Mary Rich

That was the first time that any of us knew that our plan was no longer protected. I think the corporate people knew but were keeping it quiet.

Eric Kuby

We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.

Bob Parker

We've lost a third of our corporate contributions.

Chuck D.

Valuations are getting stretched, especially in the technology sector. There may be some recovery in the economy, but the notion that it will translate into a big jump in corporate profits - the jury is still out on that.

E. Hurley

Most of the corporate money in Newcastle goes to the Knights.

Paul Browne

Members of our corporate security network informed the police department of the e-mails' existence days prior to any announcement of the threat.

Don Hays

You'll see most of the corporate earnings out of the way,

Gordon Graham

will include a significant reduction in Bell's corporate support structure.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

Bethany Hamilton

The end...is just the beginning

Aaron Small

That was huge; that play right there gives them their fourth run if they score it, and it ends an inning, ... Any time you make a play like that, in a game like this, it swings the momentum to the team that makes that play.

Shanna Zolman

We could have the most difficult, roughest experience throughout my senior year. But if it all ends the way we want it to end ? in the very end with the NCAA Tournament ? it's all worth it.

Scott Turow

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Jason Witten

We have a good era of tight ends right now,

Glenn Greenwald

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

Allen Michel

Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Steve Case

We've learned the market functions a little differently in Europe.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Venancio Figueroa

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

Winfried Vahland

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Mike Edwards

We do functions for all sorts of student organizations because of the slide and sunning patio.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Robert Kelly

Longer term, the vision is to put all functions on the Internet.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Peter Lombard

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

Gene Luen Yang

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

Ken Kutaragi

Microsoft has put itself out of the game, ... Retailers in the US are already disappointed.

Joel Klein

Microsoft itself is responsible for where things stand today,

June Daugherty

Who knows? You never know. What you do know is you keep your staff and your team ready for the next opponent. It's going to sort itself out right after the Pac-10 tournament.

Joan Greenberg

I think locally we're seeing more than that.

Greg Davis

I don't think people locally are worried about it,

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

David Williams

There was no coordinated national effort. I think that's why people locally remembered this, but there was no national con.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Mark Anderson

That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.

Stewart Alsop

Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.

David Filo

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

Chuck Austin

Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before.

Bill Gates

Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.

Chris Grisanti

Microsoft could very well be the next Microsoft.

Drake Johnstone

Microsoft would do whatever they can to keep AT&T from going to AOL.

Harvey Saferstein

Microsoft needs a settlement more than the government.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Sagan

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Terry Shea

The assessor's office respectfully disagrees with some of the court's rulings.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Howard Osofsky

You are going to have officers with shorter fuses,

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Robin Oakley

are not remotely on the same scale as the U.S..

Stan Wasowski

It is very remote it will rain. Most of it will stay north.

Jeffrey Skilling

I never did that. I don't think I did anything remotely like that.

Lynette Willie

There's a lot of use in more remote areas.

Werner Herzog

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

Donald Trump

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.

James Bowden

Usually, you ride and then you party. Now, you just party.

David Hayes

We haven't sorted out just who will ride which one.

Johan Bruyneel

We haven't signed anybody. We're full. We have 27 riders and we're going to keep it that way.

James Costos

You can have all of the laws and protection in place, but how do you get rid of homophobia? This is something that the U.S. is going to have to deal with.

Deniece Schofield

You can get rid of those utility bills. They have no long-term value. As soon as we throw them away, it's a relief.

Polish Proverb

Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself

Gary Lewis

Most of the riders up there are locals,

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.