Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Brad D. Smith

Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.

Victoria Osteen

Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.

Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Stan Magee

The allegations were all baseless, without merit, highly suspect and I am very surprised that the TEA even bothered to get involved in making a judgement call in areas that were governed by our own board operating procedures.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Idris Elba

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

Evel Knievel

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

David Bailey

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

Brandon Jennings

I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game.

Dennis Ross

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Desiree Rogers

I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.

Barack Obama

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Alice Walker

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Brian Frosh

We know the administration had a policy of telling employees that, if they resigned, they would get a neutral referral,

Paul Lambert

We're very proud of the employees who have hung in there with us.

Brian Green

Virtually all of the employees will be staying (with the board).

Ed Epping

Most of the ideas come from the employees themselves because they are the ones doing the job, so they know it best. On the other hand, they want to get the job done the fastest way possible, so we have to work together to make sure no one is skirting around the problem and not being safe.

John Graves

Most of the employees treat us with respect, but I give respect. That's why I get respect.

Ed Dumas

It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public officials.

Scott Sharp

Most senior management do not even know if their employees actually understand what they should be doing,

David Hill

We are not prepared to negotiate now with a minority union and give a minority of employees more benefits.

Nancy Norris

We have a no-solicitation policy, so that employees don't feel pressured.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Carrie Underwood

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city.

Richard Tucker

I tease them about geezer rock and now they're seeing it themselves.

John Varvatos

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Carolyn Gray

We've got one right now that we need for someone from the south side of the county,

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Deborah Moggach

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Dick DeVos

Who better. I know what it's like to sit on that side of the table.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

Timothy Brown

We are taking this station from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Sylvester Stallone

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Walter Salles

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Casey Kasem

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

Curtis Myles

If they come to the station and try the system, I think we've got a customer.

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Afrojack

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

Sofia Vergara

For me, this is a totally new thing,

Doug Wilson

He's a freak, ... totally off the charts.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Nick Hardwick

He is just crisp out there. He is totally in control.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Arnon Goldfinger

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Steve Howard

We've got some things started I'd like to see completed. A lot of it is infrastructure in town I'd like to see upgraded.

Zona Jones

I think I was the only one in town that day when the show was announced.

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Keith Smith

I don't think it's appropriate on a town ballot.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Jose Maria Aznar

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.