Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Somers

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

Lawrence Halprin

This isn't a memorial to him as a person. It's a memorial to what he achieved as our leader. It's a way of communicating to this country what he stood for.

Joseph Johnson

We developed this product specifically to meet the military's need for an affordable communications OTM solution. By combining the characteristics of new X-Band satellites and our heritage of designing to military specification requirements and maximizing highly reliable COTS technology, we have achieved that goal.

Martin O'Malley

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

Joaquin Castro

Since becoming mayor in 2009, Julian has worked tirelessly to pursue policies that honor the aspirations of the people he represents. I'm proud that my brother has achieved his dreams, but I'm even more proud of the work he's done to help others achieve theirs.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Antonio Guterres

In these next 12 months what we'd like to see is the steady start of the return to the south, a peace agreement to be achieved in Darfur and the east, progressive improvement of security in Darfur and the start of the sustained return of refugees there,

Shane Pendley

I hope that I have achieved what I set out to do and that is to make your days more memorable, a little more bareable, lighten your troubles, and fill your heart with love.

Steve Jobs

I hope that every customer, artist and music company executive takes a moment today to reflect on what we've achieved together during the past three years. Over 1 billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

James E. Faust

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

Kourtney Kardashian

I know that, for me, I need to try to cover myself while breastfeeding so that no one snaps a picture. If this wasn't the case, I probably wouldn't mind as much because my son is my biggest concern. My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.

Jason Bateman

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Janet Jackson

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

Chris Evert

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Earl Nightingale

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Earl Nightingale

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Bobby May

That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.

Pete Newell

Bill Sharman was coach at that time and I didn't want to intrude, ... But Kermit had to learn to play facing the basket, which he'd never done. So, I began meeting him at the Loyola gym at 7:30 each morning and we'd work on his development.

John le Carre

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

Maynard Jackson

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Maajid Nawaz

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

Eddie Floyd

Hey, we thought it was kinda neat, ... It was sort of an exchange thing, the way I felt. You know, with guys from England coming to the U.S. and then we began to go over there.

Joseph Bruchac

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Roger McGuinn

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

Edward Hirsch

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.