Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Urman

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

Eliot Spitzer

It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.

Steven Goldstein

This is a major milestone. This is the most populous county in the southern part of the state. It shows geographic unity against homophobia and abject hatred.

Steven Camarota

Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.

Eric Massa

Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.

Thomas E. Lawrence

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Kara Walker

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Jim Boeheim

First of all, I want to start off with a profound abject apology for my language yesterday.

Atharva Veda

Water is the abject necessity for any kind of life to exist.

Peter Reed

We actually had a crisis in the beginning of the testing, in that the first three or four vendors did not pass,

Steve Miskin

We actually are at the beginning stages of not using outside counsel as much. We're planning to use in-house more often.

Ron Jones

We accomplished what we wanted to do. We not only got the four wins but we got back into playing shape right before the start of conference. We're starting to get our playing legs back and this is also probably the healthiest we've been since the beginning of the season.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Larry Ellison

We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,

Glenn Nick

We are at the very beginning stages today.

Richard P. Feynman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Bob Peterson

We are at the beginning stages. Are we going to be successful? Yes.

Ron Davis

We are losing bodies to other communities who need our services less than this city but pay more for it.

Jose Vicente

There are bodies in the sea, bodies buried under mud, bodies everywhere, ... won't be less than 10,000 dead.

Alessio Vinci

There are bodies all over here. There are burned body parts ... The wreck of the bus is still smoldering.

Karim Rahimi

We strongly condemn any disrespect to human bodies regardless of whether they are those of enemies or friends.

Ron Allan

West Port is a different animal. They have speed. They can press. They have big bodies inside. They have three-point shooters and they have two-point shooters. We are going to have to come out and put forth a great effort, to where we have a chance in the end.

M. F. K. Fisher

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Lindsay Lohan

If I can change bodies with anyone, it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?

David Nonis

We're going to get some bodies back but the timing on that is really uncertain. We needed some character and strength on the back end.

Otis Smith

With this flexibility, I think you're able to get the players you want to get as opposed to doing a trade for bodies that years from now might not help you. It's about complementary pieces that can win you a championship; it's not about collecting as many bodies as you can.

Terry Gilliam

There I was back in American television with all of the restrictions. I managed to finish my contracted animation, but it was radio animation.

Gary Roberts

It would be nice of their manager Tommy Taylor to ring us rather than go to the media, especially when it is a contracted player. Tommy should know better.

Julian McMahon

I've been told they want Dr. Doom to come back for the sequel, and I am contracted to do a couple more,

Jose Sulaiman

what weight the fight was contracted for and if that was his weight. And if not, why it was contracted.

Ray Yeakley

Guys who are now testing positive for hepatitis C more than likely contracted it in the 1980s or late 1970s when it wasn't understood what hepatitis C was.

Steve Kean

He is contracted until 2008 and we are very hopeful we can secure his services for longer.

Graeme Souness

He is contracted to Real Madrid and it won't be him that makes that decision. No player can make that decision,

Dean Ryan

Henry is contracted here and I've no knowledge of any speculation in Australia.

Corin Nemec

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Peter Ueberroth

We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Pope John

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

John Keefe

After all these years of service, ... you kind of feel, 'Why did I do this?'

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Charlie Hunnam

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

Fidel Castro

They should put those signs inside, not outside.

Jack Kilby

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Orlando Ayala

It's trying to signal how important we think this is.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Bernard Law Montgomery

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

William Shakespeare

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Proverb Proverb

The one who wills is the one who can.