Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian K. Vaughan

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

Russell Tovey

Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, beautiful man: completely humble and so accessible.

Ed Orgeron

We've let Alan Abrams back on the team. There will be certain circumstances he must follow.

Richard Foreman

Usually the Fed keeps raising rates until something goes wrong in the economy or the market. Even Alan Greenspan has never gotten it right.

Tony Crescenzi

With the Fed's statement, Chairman Alan Greenspan's famed gradualism is surfacing again, as the chairman appears to be signaling a slow pace of interest rate hikes in the future,

Peter Mancuso

I think the stimulation that (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has given to the economy is starting to take hold. It's going to take us a little while, by the third quarter, maybe even into the fourth quarter, we may see things do better.

Frank Cappiello

The only risk out there is that Alan Greenspan will go one step too far and put us in a recession, ... And it's hard to see what he's doing now as putting us in a recession.

Freddy Shepherd

We are delighted that St James' Park will play host to Alan's testimonial game to celebrate his unparalleled career both at club and international level. It will be a fantastic night. The atmosphere will match the occasion and Alan will be given the perfect send-off.

Robin Lewis

It doesn't surprise me that Alan Lacy was squeezed down due to the questionable performance of Sears over the years.

Shaukat Aziz

The overall assessment -- government, private sector and infrastructure -- would be close to $5 billion,

Ken Boston

The assessment load is huge. It is far greater than in other countries and not necessary for the purpose. We are pushing for the overall burden of assessment to be reduced.

Lee Schlesinger

The assessment indicates total snook harvest has been increasing on both coasts due to the growing popularity of snook fishing.

Ed Loyd

The assessment here is that the EU has not put forward anything near the level of ambitiousness or seriousness that having a successful round would necessitate. They are continuing to be protectionist,

Michehl Gent

The assessment concludes that California will experience difficulties meeting its projected electricity demand this summer, and California electricity users will experience rotating blackouts, much more so than last summer or this past winter.

Andy Hayman

The assessment and investigation of all the material recovered is a colossal undertaking,

Colin Cooper

We have to wait until it settles down before an assessment is made.

Phil Smith

We've got our videos of Wasps in place for a detailed scrutiny but when it comes to a personal assessment I know Frank has recent first-hand experience so I dare say a call will go in,

Jack Straw

waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Robin S. Sharma

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

Magic Johnson

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

Mark McKinnon

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

Bob MacDonald

You can have the same kind of influence on your life whether you're running a gas station or you're CEO of a company.

Joe Galli

I was very excited about the prospect of being the CEO of a fast-growing technology company, particularly in the B2B sector,

Alan Ackerman

I think people need to be concerned about the length of the technology cycle and the inability of most CEOs and analysts to predict the course of corporate earnings over the next several quarters.

Hal Sparks

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

Rick Wagoner

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Charles Adams

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

Magic Johnson

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

Mark McKinnon

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

Alan Ackerman

I think people need to be concerned about the length of the technology cycle and the inability of most CEOs and analysts to predict the course of corporate earnings over the next several quarters.

Hal Sparks

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

Charles Adams

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

David Healy

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

David Rosenberg

If CEOs are just frozen in fear, ... who's going to go on a spending spree.

Michael J. Saylor

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Peter Freeman

We hope to make the point that CEOs need to be personally engaged in information security as a strategic issue.

Garry Hynes

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

Chelsea Clinton

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

Sidney Jones

The police is a very important institution for the democratization of Indonesian society. Unless the police is firmly put in front in charge of internal security, this country is going to go backwards.

Sidney Jones

The police and prosecution really want to see these charges stick,

Niecy Nash

I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

Fay Wray

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

Norma McCorvey

The abortionist I worked for would charge women money and not even do an abortion. He would lie to them and tell them they were pregnant." ()

Eddie Greenspan

The allegations were known way back over two years ago by the auditor general. We don't know why it took so long to charge him, but we're pleased at least that we now have the opportunity to clear his name.

Don Aaron

The at-fault driver has not been determined, so charges have not been filed yet.

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Jim Hamilton

The announcement is really just setting the stage for a new era in process color. Customers prefer incremental change. They don't like to take big steps.

Jeff Garcia

We have an entire team dedicated to ensuring that the needs of our Marketing Planner customers are exceeded.

Jim Henderson

We have always offered free delivery to our customers.

Stuart Rose

We have already received such positive feedback from customers we will be extending the range further this autumn.

Martin George

We have worked very hard on efficiency and productivity (so) we can put lower fares in the market place, give customers better value for money and make money,

David Hillenbrand

We have to understand who our customers are,

Bill Newman

We have three dedicated lines just to handle the calls. Once the drivers learn their routes and the customers become familiar with their pickup days, then the problem will go away.

Mike Moore

We were hired by customers to get out of their contracts. It showed what a difficult industry this is to understand.

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Laurie Pirtle

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

X. J. Kennedy

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Madeleine Albright

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Yolanda Adams

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

Jane Seymour

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Chris Carter

I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.

Paul Wolfowitz

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

Phoebe Snow

All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.

Michael Stoller

Michael told me once that the reason he's so involved with his own kids is because he'll never have to be lonely.

Peter Coleman

I'm shocked and I'm disappointed, but I don't know the whole story yet. Or how I can get involved with the rest of the people here to save it.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Carmen Proviano

We know other people were involved. We want to know who else was involved in our son's murder. We can't have peace until we know everything.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Bette Davis

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

Peng Liyuan

My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.

Peter Senge

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

Matt Williams

We know Jess likes to run so we just give her the reins and let her run.

Didier Drogba

Nobody likes to be substituted but solidarity with the team always comes first.

Ian Hamilton

Nobody likes going into an office supply store to purchase cartridges,

Tubby Goodwin

The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Tom Brandt

I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.

Wayne Oakes

We aren't in a position to be able to comment,

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Eric Schmidt

We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.

Linda Hargrove

I think she could have an MVP season. She is in a position where all she has to do is go out and play. She doesn't have to be the leader.

Rod Graves

It does not preclude us from taking a look at the quarterback position in the draft.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Jose Fernandez

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

Danielle Brian

No one has proven themselves strong enough to tackle it.

Ron Cosner

She has proven she can probably steal on anybody.

George Smitherman

We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.

Dave Martin

I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove. IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Bob Monkhouse

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

Brett Hull

I'm known as a winner now.

Bear Bryant

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Jan Ullrich

I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Alex Haley

History is written by winners.

Alfonso Ribeiro

We are all winners here.

Cassandra Clare

History gets written by the winners...