Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Ian Watson

Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

Nathan Grube

We have a new policy. We're going to report a weekly number instead of a daily number. There are other tour events that don't report attendance figures, such as the Buick Open.

Richard Greenfield

We believe the Labor Day weekend is a significant weekend for local resident attendance, ... We believe the net impact of Charley and Frances implies that attendance will likely be down in Disney's fiscal fourth quarter.

Ron Jaworski

To lead the league in attendance is mind-boggling. I know as well as anyone, you've got to win in Philadelphia and that's our goal. You've got to start winning.

Cedric Jones

We have a football fund that is funded by the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association, a fund that commits grants to all-star games around the country. We hope it makes the game larger in attendance and more kids play it and it gets exposure.

James Henderson

Maybe she took it a little too far, but even the African-Americans in attendance didn't seem to mind. I don't think it was racism. Maybe it was ignorance. They just didn't know. They didn't intend to offend anybody.

John Leighton

Managing physical and attendance expansions is part of my CV, ... but we shouldn't put too much of an emphasis on trying to double them. What's most important is the quality of what you have to offer and how you get the audience engaged in the collections. That's more important to me than a monitor at the door that salivates every time you have another 100,000 visitors.

Paul Dolan

We are in a better spot (financially). With attendance going up, we think what were doing with TV, we feel like we're in a better spot to keep players for a long time.

Dave Messing

I think people who work here know we have high expectations for their attendance in support of our reliability needs. Same thing that we find in snowstorms and floods ? people always try to find a way to work at least until the roadways are shut down.

Brewster Kahle

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

John Taylor

Microsoft has recognized that owning a significant piece of real estate in the living room is key to them being a winner in digital entertainment, ... This is a strategic investment and part of a long-term plan for them.

Chris White

Microsoft is stepping up to support this vision further with 'anywhere everywhere' protected digital bits.

Susan Adams

Manchester is a microcosm for what we do in the whole division. It's the place we often go to first for launching new products like digital phone or a high-speed upgrade. It's a well-run system where people are collaborative and go the extra mile.

Edgar Bronfman

We are now seeing digital gains outpacing physical sales (in the United States).

Adi Kishore

The problem of piracy of digital screeners has been going on for a while and is a growing trend. Originally, the industry did not take the problem seriously, however.

Albert Lin

Those hoping for the price of digital songs to rise toward the prices paid for ring tones are out of luck. Some hoped it could rise from 99 cents, $1, to the $2, $3 or $4 paid for ring tones. That's not going to happen.

Hakeem Jeffries

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

Hod Lipson

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Dave Ramsey

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Victoria Osteen

We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

Carl Sagan

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

Bethany Hamilton

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives.

Bethany Hamilton

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

Bernard Berenson

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

David Stern

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

Bill Vaughan

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

Sue Wilson

The abusive person usually doesn't understand the game and are usually the loudest. Fans see officials abused on TV, and they think it's fine to do it on the high school level.

Ken Hitchcock

We have unbelievable fans and they're disappointed. We have to stick together.

Darin Dollemore

Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.

Jeff Battles

We haven't had a guy in the finals in 10 years, so it's unbelievable right now.

Mike Polz

It doesn't get any better than to have five guys in the finals and one of them your son while your other son is also down here. We're very fortunate since things have gone very well for us. They're great kids and they've wrestled hard.

Brendan Higgins

We went to the regional finals last year and we had a lead with about two minutes left in the game. It was a disappointing loss last year. We tasted it. We spent a year having this goal in mind. We're here now.

Fred Russell

I hated finals week. Finals week was 24-7 quiet hours, which meant no serious guitar playing for a week.

Ron Averill

Having those three guys in the finals is going to nail our name to the wall pretty well.

Jim Boeheim

We've been to the finals a lot and we want to play well. It will be a tough game.

Steve Virgil

He was strong and really athletic. It was a tough match, but it was a big thing for me just to be down here. A lot of guys would have liked to have been out there in the finals tonight.

Chauncey Billups

He's played a lot of years and not gotten to the Finals yet, where he wants to be.

Becky G

For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

Ashley Tisdale

Just because I live in L.A .and I live in Hollywood doesn't mean I have to have a Hollywood life.

Tom Fuhrman

We'd sit and talk, b.s. about old times ---- about all the Hollywood celebrities and so forth.

E. B. White

To be the hottest ticket in L.A. makes you feel pretty good. Being in Hollywood, we meet so many people. We've got Snoop working out with us, Will Ferrell working out with us. All the movie stars, all the rappers, they want to be part of winning.

Alex Jones

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

Alex Jones

And I got a lot of friends in Hollywood.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Nikki Sixx

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

Maria Valverde

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Brian Morris

When something like this happens, you get your hopes up and they just get dashed.

Stephen Hawking

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Haley Jowle

I didn't want to get my hopes up. He might have said that I wasn't his daughter.

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Paul Nelson

We are going about this in hopes in will identify system problems.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Lofa Tatupu

Man! ... I'm lucky he didn't see me.

Mike Hargrove

We'll probably send him to the instructional league. I'm not sure, but we've been talking about it.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Jim Morgan

When that tsunami hit, they sent planeloads of supplies and U.S. soldiers. Where's our help?

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

John Kelly

Here he sits in this courtroom. 'Frank the Monster,' because of a tape in a shoe.

Bill Self

He'll wear a splint when he's not practicing. (On the court) he'll tape it up and be fine.

Alan Parsons

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Chance The Rapper

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

Josh Childress

Watch the tape throughout, and you'll see him doing things like that.

Derrick Brooks

Watching those tapes told me I've still got a lot of work to do,

Bill Maher

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

Ben Bradlee

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

Bellamy Young

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Mike Ledsome

I'm so thrilled for him. It's so great.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Graeme Murphy

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

Scott Coffey

I am thrilled with the results. I am thrilled he is going home.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Bob Monkhouse

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

Brett Hull

I'm known as a winner now.

Bear Bryant

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Jan Ullrich

I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Alex Haley

History is written by winners.

Alfonso Ribeiro

We are all winners here.

Cassandra Clare

History gets written by the winners...