Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

the way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.

Lori Mei

That's too late for us to be able to make promotion decisions in grades 3, 5 and 7, to accurately identify students who have to be invited to the Summer Success Academy.

Hal Varian

I was a little surprised. I expected this to be accurate because there's a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.

Nat Harrington

It will be very similar to how the district responds to hurricanes. We'll look at the district communication network and make sure we have accurate information.

Charlie Coe

It won't at all be an accurate gauge of what people will see next season. We want to have a good afternoon, not get anybody hurt and give these young guys a chance to play. But it won't be an indication of anything, really.

Thanasis Economou

It will take the experts many, many months before they will determine the accurate number, but I am sure that in the end their number will be close to what we have predicted. Stardust was very successful beyond all expectation in all its phases.

Mike Smith

they can't make accurate hurricane forecasts - and neither can I.

Haley Barbour

They are unconfirmed but likely are accurate and likelier to go up when we take in the other counties,

Russ Kinnel

It wasn't a nice thing to say or completely accurate ... It was bad form,

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Barry Long

Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating.

Corita Kent

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries

John Clare

Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Paul Bacsardi

Sean has been unbelievable for us this season. He has played beyond any expectations I had for him. Sean is always so calm out there.

Leslie Moonves

Seasoned broadcasters who are at once respected, charismatic and known throughout this country and beyond are increasingly important in this fragmented media landscape.

John Koh

So if we have to look beyond our shores to provide the lift, then we might just have to do so.

Rich Tehrani

She wanted to make sure we didn't call her the most powerful woman in the world. She seemed beyond humble. She's put on this pedestal by so many people, and yet is more humble than the person sitting next to you. Maybe that has to do with not working. Retirement may relax you to such a degree that you're not stressed out anymore.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Robert Giuseppi

We are very, very close to a resolution and we have made some compromises with each other.

Roger Salazar

We are very pleased with our fund-raising efforts so far. With the matching funds and the number of low-dollar donors, we're very close to completing the fund-raising portion of the campaign.

Jonathan Todd

We are taking a close interest in the situation. There has been informal contact with the Polish authorities in the past few months.

Mark Morris

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

Donalyn Woeste

We had some close matches and had some opportunities with some of the other singles and doubles, but couldn't quite pull them out.

Richard Jefferson

We had plenty of good looks, especially close around the bucket. We missed some easy shots.

Chelsea Peretti

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Shaukat Aziz

The number one priority is shelter, ... We need tents, tents, tents.

David Wood

Even with six surgeons working there it was struggling to get that number because there is not enough theatre time to do the surgery.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Josh Hutcherson

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

Eric Thomas

Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

Eric Thomas

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.

John Hench

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

Livy

Temerity is not always successful.

Lynn Abbey

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Pierre Lafontaine

We're not really competitive yet, but we're sure getting there.