Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Lastings Milledge

I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities where I could have gone. But nothing's done until they call you and say, 'You're traded.' I feel like I'm here, and as of now, I'm going to stay until they make a decision.

Mike McLeod

Our cell phones wouldn't work; our electricity is still out, ... Our homes are damaged but still livable.

John Hewitt

Our franchises were very excited to be involved in this collection project. Liberty will ship all phone donations to Cell Phones for Soldiers.

Eugene O'Neill

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Ernest Istook

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

Fabrice Grinda

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

Carol W. Greider

In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

Marianne Williamson

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

Virginia Foxx

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

Steven Cojocaru

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Tom Izzo

I don't think he's looking at that as maybe an option now. But if he does well, we make a run, his stock continues to rise, which I think it has all year, and he's a certain pick, I'm going to be telling him to go.

Russell Schweiss

If an elected official is charged with a felony, the governor will suspend them from office, then if they were convicted they would be removed, and if they are acquitted they would be reinstated. But misdemeanors are all handled case-by-case and there is no certain time to have that done.

Mo Johnston

(I expect him to be) getting up and down the wings. I'm just looking at certain things. I know in my head what I'm looking for; I'm not worried.

Joe Gibbs

I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.

Jamie Cullum

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

Robert Thompson

From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures ù and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside ù if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.

Dave Bliss

For us to be perceived as having a drug problem, it couldn't be further from the truth. There may be an individual that has certain problems, I don't know about that, but I do know we have one of the most sound and supportive drug policies.

Kathy Banks

For this method to work, we've got to get the roots in contact with the contamination. Sod-forming grasses work well in certain situations, because they have a large root surface in contact with the soil.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Jefferson

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Robert Higgs

For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?

Rick Santelli

The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

Rick Santorum

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

Rick Santorum

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Rick Perry

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Rick Perry

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Chuck Palahniuk

People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

T. S. Eliot

I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

T. S. Eliot

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Sydney J. Harris

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

Ray Stevenson

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Robert Herrick

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

Rick Pitino

Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.

Rick Santorum

We’ve seen with this president, experience matters. When that phone call comes at three o’clock in the morning, I will be up and ready for the call because I will know what’s going on in the world around us.

Tony Randall

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Peter O'Toole

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Todd Haynes

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.