Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

John Grady

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

Christine Callies

In Nasdaq, we've been in a confused bear market for a while. The background environment, particularly in the economy, is not as bad as people think.

Lawrence Story

I guess we had talked about his background and questioned him about Medicare. He said he had no problems with Medicare in the past.

Gil Gutknecht

It is not my definition of compassion to simply write checks from the federal government and expect our children and grandchildren

Eric Smith

We made some different checks here and there, ... In the third quarter we were saying 'It's on us, if we don't let them score we win.'

Tom Greer

In the process of checks and balances, we missed it,

Grant Wistrom

If you are looking for silver linings, I think that went pretty darn well. It was a much better job of getting our checks out there on defense than we had all of last year.

Marc Garneau

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.

Marc Benioff

They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate.

M. Wolfe

Our slogan is 'Money for Nothing, Checks for Free,'

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Madame Stael

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

Tom Gray

(His mental health history) suggests that his criminal culpability is materially diminished.

Kemal Saiki

Whatever semblance of political and or ethnic motivations disappeared, the main one is the illegal exploitation of resources and criminal enterprise.

Juan Morales

He was going to college. He was studying criminal law. He wanted to be a police officer.

Kevin O'Donnell

He has not touched in a criminal manner in his entire life.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Andrew Benson

You can't shoot someone under Maine law just because that person won't get out of your house, ... It's not open season on criminal trespassers in the state of Maine just because they won't get out of your house.

Gary Holt

The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Officer Halttunen

All four students face criminal charges, all four students face school sanctions.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

Michael Spiller

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Jackie Cooper

I had directed a little in summer theater, and I liked it, and I started getting interested in directing, in live television.

Mary Curtis

Then, with supporting documentation in hand, that person can be directed to the assistance.

Alex Graves

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

Patrick Warburton

Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

John Patrick Shanley

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

Mark Singletary

God directed me to do for gospel music what I'd been doing for the secular music. I had no peace with the secular side; there was something else tugging at me.

Mike DiMatteo

He was calm, made the right reads. Tom directed the team well and was a true leader out there.

Ron Hays

If you look at the initial search and rescue (after Katrina), ... it was neighbors on boats.

Stephen Hadley

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Julius Jones

I know the initial response from students is, they don't like it at all.

Daniel Everett

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

Manuel Gonzalez

The investigation is still open, but we have an initial theory.

David Menlow

The initial talk was for $3.6 billion. Now we're talking a valuation of $2.8 billion.

Paul Hamerman

The initial scenarios are pretty thin, but I think more importantly they are providing a more comprehensive vision around what kind of applications could be offered under this partnership.

Alan Stern

This is in a very real sense the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets that the United States has led for the world since the 1960s.

David Longmuir

After the initial 'Oh my god' reaction when the market lost 15 percent, things have settled and we are seeing some buying, particularly in oil stocks.

Joseph Darby

a large number of pictures involving prisoners and poses with prisoners.

Estelle

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Steve Thomas

My objection is it's involving the students in a controversy.

George Wald

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Bea Arthur

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Steve Martin

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Jennifer Pralgo

The rainfall is going to be a major major issue and it could intensify because it is moving so slow.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Robert Pattinson

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Frankie Dettori

He's having his first run for us and it will also be his first run on the dirt. It will be interesting to see how he will do.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Oliver Purnell

I think we will probably be in the NIT. It's disappointing we didn't make a run at winning (the ACC) tournament.

Jim Hendry

I think we've got more versatility. We're more athletic. I think we're going to run a lot better and play a lot better defense.