Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Ackerman

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Tyler Mane

Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.

Tracy Morgan

I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

Talulah Riley

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

David Novak

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Chuck D.

We had some big plays. This isn't the normal Vernon team you see with the three yards and a cloud of dust ? although we had clouds of dust today.

Zedd

Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

Gary Dugan

There are two key challenges to the U.S. market: one is Fed policy -- and it's still our concern that the Fed will be increasing rates this side of Christmas; secondly, it's the slowing corporate earnings outlook. Although corporate earnings are still probably going to rise, I think there's a concern that numbers may come in below consensus and drive the markets down.

Sally Hawkins

I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

John Hawkes

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

A. Johnson

As a company founded by a competitive cyclist who wanted to create the first great-tasting, nutritious energy bar, we're ecstatic about helping bring professional cycling to California. We also value the opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint of this event while raising awareness about global warming.

Larry Ponemon

AOL's efforts in raising awareness and understanding about good privacy and data protection on the Internet is paying off in terms of positive consumer perception. This is an especially significant accomplishment given the rash of privacy issues such as phishing and spam that impact the ISP industry.

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

Michael Bell

pretty aware of what happened and he's just sick about it.

Brian McCarthy

The Stones were aware of it, and they were fine with it.

Bob Bennett

is fully aware of what we're doing and is encouraging me to go forward.

Atsuko Abe

Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,

Steve Warren

You wouldn't believe how busy we are, ... It's very interesting to see the awareness pick up. Most (people) are finding out that technology is your friend in this situation.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

Janet Reno

The most important thing in any investigation, particularly at this time of year, is that we just do it right -- methodically, carefully and without commenting on it,

Suzanne Fields

Style has rarely been either a characteristic or a qualification for secretaries of state. Henry Kissinger had his square, dark-rimmed glasses, and Madeleine Albright her funky hats, but these were carefully contrived affectations.

W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Max Mosley

It would be very difficult to enlarge the facilities and we would also have to look carefully at the safety issue. The number is unlikely to increase.

Michael Farr

You should evaluate employers just as carefully as they evaluate you.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Brian Mason

We were confident that we were going to win. We knew what we had to do in order to get the job done.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Ronnie Belliard

I started feeling a pinch in my right side a few days ago but figured I would just play through it,

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ali Omar

I've been trying to vote since 10 a.m.. They say I'm not registered to vote, but four days ago, I went to the police station to register and they said I could vote with my ID card. Today when I tried to vote, they said I couldn't.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Craig Barlow

Saturday is moving day. You don't win a golf tournament on Saturday, and by all means I'd like to have a few holes over, but I'm in great position.

Tom Tauke

put us on firm footing as we seek the remaining few state approvals.

Phil Dow

If we have a series of big moves up, that would be a shock to the system, ... but, considering where are from a historical perspective, they could go up more gradually and not be a terrible headwind for the market.

Michelle Paver

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Amy Smith

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

Ravi Shankar

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Liang Guanglie

China-US military relations, an important part of overall relations, have seen an increase in exchanges.

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Jerry Rucker

Defensively our intensity level picked up. They went through a spell of about 25 possessions from midway through the second to about mid-third quarter where they only scored six points.

Sthefany Thomas

That's why you can never lay back. You can't play to the other team; you have to play with your own intensity that your team always plays with.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

John Lazicki

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

Kenny Carter

You have to have intensity for 32 minutes. It didn't happen.

Dan Dersam

We just turned cold, and we couldn't make anything. We were trying to live on the jump shot, and we lost our intensity on defense.

Mario Chalmers

We just tried to match the intensity they were bringing.

R. Ingram

We weren't really playing with a lot of energy, we told ourselves we have to pick up our intensity and pressure the ball.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Russ Feingold

You are obviously very talented. And you also look healthy.

Steve Loney

When you only have one touchdown in two games, you obviously have some things to fix.

Tyrone Marshall

You look at our record, obviously it doesn't tell the tale of the Galaxy,

Lyndsey Medders

Everything we do we're going to try to do it together. We obviously don't have any All-Americans on this team, so everything we do is going to have to be done by a group.

Kevin Kelley

There's some optimism available, but obviously it's a competitive market.

George Sharp

What can I say, we're obviously disappointed, ... At some point, we're going to have to sit down and revisit what we proposed

Lomana LuaLua

We showed it wasn't just about money. It's about spirit. We're not here just to participate in this tournament and go home. We want to show everyone what we can do and obviously we've started really well.

Roger Clemens

What I took out there is not going to get it done, ... I need to obviously be sharper, a lot sharper than what I took out there. Just too many walks.

Herman Edwards

Obviously they're still talking. We'll see where it's at.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ahmed Plummer

I would like to start. That's what I've been doing here, but that's totally up to the coaches.

Max von Sydow

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.