Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Leaving the board will relieve me of formal duties and give me more flexibility, but I still expect to spend as much time as possible with the extended family of Ford people and will gladly help the company and the board in any way I can.

Harold Levy

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Clyde Tombaugh

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Ben Elliot

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Rebel Wilson

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Frank Quattrone

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Morris Almond

The 36 points, I wasn't surprised with it being an overtime game. I'm only averaging four or five boards a night so the double-double-I'll take any day.

William Sleator

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

Zubin Mehta

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

Bill Bryson

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Skip Prosser

The ACC will be as strong as always, ... Duke may be ranked No. 1 nationally in the preseason. Our fans will also have the opportunity to see Boston College when they come to Joel Coliseum.

Neil Abbott

The 2003-2004 Bruins team has pretty much been dismantled, and he understood that. Leaving Boston is pretty difficult for Sergei, because he has been here pretty much his whole pro career. It's a fresh start, and Sergei will go to Edmonton and do his best.

Susan Bysiewicz

We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut is a beautiful place to live.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city, regardless. We deal with that daily. Boston is ... unique. Boston is a small city, it's Sox Nation. People live, die, eat and breathe baseball. I think now our job as a group is to come in here and make everybody, you know, be a rock star.

Paul Donovan

We have brought a lot of companies into the Boston Scientific family and we have never been more confident or enthusiastic about the prospects for a merger.

Devon Williams

I would love to study musical theater in a big city. New York University and the Boston Conservatory have always been at the back of my mind.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

Jake Brace

We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.

Barbara Williams

We have the luxury of just watching a little bit. Every company must make a decision about where they want to be on the curve. There's always the risk that if you lead, you bleed.

Robert Hartwig

Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.

Brent Bracelin

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Robert Kirby

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Kozo Hiramatsu

We will rebuild our company and keep it going for the future. But this time we promise we'll grow our company with integrity, enhanced corporate governance, and compliance.

A. Bush

We've got some people working here because of the ingenuity of the plant managers, ... . . . This company has provided housing for the folks who work here.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Tim Pawlenty

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Ian Anderson

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Gary Kendall

I thought, I'm going to gamble here. We haven't been putting too many hits back-to-back-to-back all year and that's what I was thinking there.

David Neumark

I think this is a gamble by opening up to more research. Some will be good, and some will be bad.

Dan Bennett

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Terrence McGee

I was hanging back, but I saw when he had that pressure he tried to throw it short. I took a gamble and it worked out.

Jacob Ruppert

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

Nasir Khan

I don't Understand why People become Farmers, Gangsters & Gamblers when they join Facebook...

Christopher Meeker

If it didn't have Gillette, Procter & Gamble would be in a tougher spot.

David Sullivan

He is a very good player but it seemed a gamble paying that much for a young centre-half, and we had already spent our money anyway.

Frank Robinson

He may come back from this and be able to compete. But if they go in there and operate, he's done for the season. If it does work, we'll lose him for a month or so, and that's about it. Maybe two months at the most, but you would have him for the rest of the season if he holds up, which is another gamble. It's worth the gamble to try this first.

Rick Carlisle

Johnson played great. We did a lot of different things on him defensively, but he was able to get shots or get teammates shots.

Chris Pardue

Johnson is really a good, tough back. If you don't wrap him up, he just keeps going.

William Hamilton

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Graeme Smith

We are always going to put the pressure on the likes of (Shane) Watson and Johnson and Lewis.

Clint Hill

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

Matt Czuchry

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

Bethenny Frankel

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Mark Steber

The AMT is not just a tax that rich people pay anymore.

Sabrina Harris

The 125 years don't have anything to do with my daughter. He killed my daughter, so I want him to pay for it.

Ben Hinson

We can't have people at the partnership wondering if they can pay the bills.

Braylon Edwards

We wanted to pay tribute to him for revolutionizing the position. He was the front-runner.

Peter Schuyler

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Mark Baldassare

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Paul Cavalluzzo

I don't ever recall receiving any instructions with respect to caveats being down,

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

George Thompson

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

Anna Akhmatova

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Ambrose Bierce

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Rudy Langford

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Adrian Aucoin

We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.

Darren Criss

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

Leslie Williams

We've never separated two vehicles going Mach 5. That's just never happened. It's a very risky thing.

Duncan Fletcher

If you take a risky single and get run out, you would be frustrated.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Ernest Dimnet

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Dave McCoy

We're pretty much just waiting. It's somewhat frustrating." ()

Dudley North

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

David Spade

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Bridget Derrick

Our terrain here is pretty wooded and it's somewhat rolling.

Frank Dunham

somewhat of a surprise, but not a total surprise.

David Pittman

That's why I think this study is somewhat surprising.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Austin Corson

We have a lot of support from our families.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it will have the support of the American people, and it will be sustained and we will be successful.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Jack Bass

I won't support it, ... I don't want anything to do with (Shirley).

Jeff Moore

I was there for (Gwen) but I couldn't do anything for her. You can't do anything. They're all on their own, and you got to support them.

Sally Pacheco

To go this long and have all that stress, we have to have support from somewhere.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I thought it was very original, and I said, 'This should be a hit.' And it was. So I wasn't so much surprised as I was really pleased.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Felipe Alou

I won't say surprised but I'm kind of disappointed.

David Levine

I was very surprised in the ambulance when they started talking about e-mailing some doctor.

Andy McDonald

I think I'm the most surprised out of anyone.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Stan Grimes

We've got some wagons that are worth between $400,000 and $500,000.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.