Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Dan Gilroy

Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

Andy Beal

Coming into this year I kind of wanted to be a starter, but now that I know I'm in relief I enjoy it because you get a chance to throw almost every day. In four games I've thrown in three of them. I feel like I have an opportunity to help the team, just come in and help us get out of jams and get the job done.

Rakesh Shankar

Despite the moderation in refinery utilization by almost 1.2% last week, gasoline inventories rose a whopping 4.3 million barrels.

Joel Greenberg

Developing a budget is one of the most powerful tools. One woman, earning a fairly decent salary, was left with almost nothing at the end of every week. When she checked her expenses, she found she was spending $600 a month on clothing. Most people, in fact, don't know where their money is going.

Lynn Franco

Despite sluggish economic conditions and almost non-stop layoff announcements, consumers are cautiously optimistic that the economy will rebound later this year,

Steve Pogorzelski

Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005.

Pat Ross

Dennis is as much a part of our neighborhood as any of us. Almost everyone left a card for him in their mailbox, and some left cookies.

Henry Blodget

AOL seems undervalued by almost any measure. If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Terry Jones

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Jan Ullrich

If it's true, I would of course be disappointed. Lance is the greatest of our time and maybe somebody's trying to put him down. I don't know what it's about, so all of this is very speculative.

Tuffy Rhodes

I got a chance. Of course I wanted to play a little longer. Everybody does. Sometimes things don't work out in your favor, but it's OK. I'll keep my head up and know I gave my best.

Paul Mitchell

If the course is not accredited by one of them, it's probably not worth doing.

Erkki Liikanen

If something is at a historically low level, then of course it can't stay there forever.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Alexander Yakovenko

Despite the firmness of the statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry, ... Russia still hopes for the soonest possible resumption of the six-nation negotiations and compromises in settling problems with due consideration of the interests of all sides.

Bruce Wright

Despite the fact there is a lot of churn in high-tech, we've seen this to be pretty steady,

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets...

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Jack Kelly

For the year, Xerox's revenue growth should be in the 5- to 6-percent area. In the second quarter, they have to start making progress of about 4 to 5 percent,

Peter Graves

I wish this season were two weeks longer, as these men and women are getting better by the week. What's really pleasing is that, to a person on this squad, the technique improvements and the growth in speed and tempo are really on the upswing.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Anne Donovan

The way of the WNBA playoffs, it does not put the higher seed at an advantage, ... You have to go in there and make the most of it.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Benjamin Bratt

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Douglas Coupland

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anish Kapoor

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Alfred Korzybski

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

V. S. Pritchett

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.