Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Lefteroff

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Gordon Smith

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Simon Cowell

I thought the song was boring. It is 'American Idol' and you've got to be as broad as possible.

Terry Palmer

I think this needs to be broadcast a lot more in the coastal communities and the fishing communities.

Jonathan Adelstein

I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Jim Higgins

We may end this round of talks without any deals getting done. The next round of talks may be more in the nature of niche acquisitions than broad combinations.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Joe Malugen

We look forward to closing the Hollywood transaction promptly. With a broader geographic presence and greatly improved distribution capabilities and scale, our combined company will be a strong competitor.

Lukas Krajicek

Just to get to play the first game of the season is what I've dreamed of, and it happened.

Michael Ende

Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?

Rob McClure

I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!

Alyssa Lampe

I never even dreamed about this when I was a freshman. But I've learned that nothing is impossible. I know how hard I've worked. I've earned the right to be here.

Mickey Goulet

A lot of these guys, when they were kids, dreamed of playing in the NHL.

Ricky Hatton

This is the position I've always dreamed of being in.

Toby Dawson

It was everything I dreamed it would be. It was just so much fun. This was my first Olympic Games, and it lived up to every expectation.

Samantha Fox

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

Trey Anastasio

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Will Self

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

Winston Churchill

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Karla Owens

I just want to make sure we don't get inundated with dwelling units.

John Burnside

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Bertolt Brecht

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Shane Battier

Every year is independent. What we did in the past doesn't come in our minds. Obviously, we like to taste a playoff victory this year, but it's not something we go to sleep at night dwelling on or lighting vigils for.

Andre Gide

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.

William Shakespeare

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

E. B. White

We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.

Rick Riordan

I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!

Sarah Rees Brennan

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

Vladimir Lenin

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

Virginia Woolf

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Zalmay Khalilzad

I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

Ziggy Marley

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

Winston Churchill

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Tommy Amaker

I thought our veterans led the way for us with a lot of toughness and heart.

Drew Sullivan

He's been incredible for us all year. He's been the heart and soul of our team.

Carl Jung

Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Sally Sondesky

The story was he'd come out to visit and he'd sit on the porch in a rocker overlooking the river.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Al Horford

I'd like to win another one. We'll have to sit down and talk about everything. I think we want to win another one.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Nick Adams

I don't know. We qualified. We'll have to sit down and talk.

Jody Conradt

I don't know when Tiffany's going to be ready, so we can't sit around and wait.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Ryan Phillips

He had to stop and tell all the bidders to sit down, because he couldn't tell who was bidding.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Saint Augustine

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

William Goldman

[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.

Voltaire

We cannot wish for that we know not.