Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Songz

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

Jo Handelsman

We've been able to target real barriers and roadblocks to women's careers, and we've launched interventions to see which ones make a difference.

Kent Beck

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

David Jones

When we go down that road it will be in a dignified manner. It would be ludicrous for people to think we are going to storm whatever barriers are put up.

Dennis Murphy

With the modifications that we have made -- including four separate barriers to keep ash and water inside -- this kind of leak cannot happen again.

Lori Berry

It's the unattended consequences that I'm most worried about. The problem with personal responsibility is that it doesn't recognize economic barriers that may deter people from getting the kind of health care they need.

Richard Doran

It is putting up some serious barriers to the poor.

Vaclav Havel

It is the beginning of the worst moment. All of the flood barriers are at their maximum level.

Greg Mastel

It's an offer that will never be taken up. Other countries are not likely to drop their trade barriers any time soon.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Tsubasa Ihara

The point for next week is whether or not the Nikkei will be able to break the 13,000 mark.

Jia Qinglin

The ongoing drive to build a harmonious society in China has provided valuable opportunities for the united front organizations and CPPCC to break new ground in their causes.

David Johnson

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

Mike Johnson

We started pressuring them and they started throwing turnovers. We were just fast breaking and started coming back and gaining some confidence.

Mark Stern

We are looking forward to joining forces with Stan and Bruce to search the universe for these fearless competitors. At some point in their lives, everyone has wanted to break out and be heroic, and now is the chance for a chosen few to shed their every-day identities and truly express their inner superhero.

Terry Smith

We struggled at the line a little bit. We took what they gave us. We had a couple of break downs on defense and gave them a touchdown.

Robert Been

We stopped being able to talk to each other. And we found ourselves onstage all playing a different song at the same time. It was pretty pathetic and felt like it was just symbolic of where we were at. We ended up getting into this terrible violent fight and our tour manager had to put us in different corners just to break it up.

Adam Mansbach

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

Tony Kaye

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Jess Glynne

I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Crispin Glover

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Daniel Radcliffe

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

Stephanie Mills

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

Rupert Everett

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Latin Proverb

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions

Richard Adams

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Cassie Johnson

We like to think of ourselves as equals out there. Our philosophy is simple ? be patient on the ice and have fun.

Roger McCarthy

Between the town and the resort, it really is a one-plus-one equals five relationship. I think that's why the relationship has to be symbiotic, and focused on the whole.

Ed Goren

Translation: Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.

Jess Grimes

We were lazy. We didn't come out ready to play, and Elco obviously did. Lazy feet equals goals for the other team.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Joe Jurevicius

As much running as I have been doing, nothing is going to get me in shape except playing the game of football,

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Denise Bottcher

A lot of the lessons were learned before (Hurricane) Rita.

Daniel Alfredsson

A lot of us learned from Salt Lake, and we learned that if you're not ready, anything can happen.

Bobby Bowden

They played like freshmen. Maybe they learned something.

David Thompson

I told him to keep it up. He's really learned the game.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Rick Ford

A lot of it is related to safety.

Carl Edwards

It's a little different. There was a time not too long ago when I just wished I had something to do related to racing. Now there's so much to do.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.