Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

Denis Waitley

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

Bob Toth

We are pleased that yet another independent source has recognized the tremendous value of our tires. Goodyear's product development efforts have focused on an application of relevant technology - advancements that are technologically innovative, but which also offer discernable benefits to those who drive on our tires.

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Amy Jo Martin

We don't like what we don't know or understand. Parents don't like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don't fully understand the benefits and dangers.

Murray Gell-Mann

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

Lindsey Kildow

World Cups are important because you have to ski well and gain confidence for the Olympics. You have to have other goals besides the Olympics because the Olympics is only one race.

Matt Link

We're hoping to build on last year. Our goal is to get by the second round of the tournament and to be competitive with some of the big teams in the SCC and get into the SCC tournament. We want to capitalize on our experience. These guys all have a lot of time as varsity players last year. We are working on solidifying our defense. We're hoping we can get a couple of guys besides Matt to score some goals. If we do those things, we should be all right.

Ashton Youboty

They had a few dinks and dunks, but besides that, I think we did a good job of containing them. We eliminated the big plays.

Andrew Wilson

They're the best 3-10 team you're going to see in any league out there. And besides that, we've got too much at stake.

Bruce Bochy

It's very close between the two. I wish I had a better reason besides what I just told you. I think Sweeney is our best guy coming off the bench.

Josh Beckett

It's about scoring runs. Pitching, your top three pitchers are going to be out there but besides that, they are going to be yanking guys pretty quick. All the teams will do this, Houston, Philly.

Michael Kennedy

It's a huge undertaking for a community. There is a lot going on besides football.

Ryan Karl

This is the time. There's no other time to do it besides right now. If I don't do it now, it's never going to happen.

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Mario Testino

Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

Mark Skousen

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th century. It will recover from the financial panic of 2008-09 and Obamanomics.

Matt Ridley

Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Bill Cosby

Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Monk Frost

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Iveta Benesova

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

Jack Handey

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar

George Bernard Shaw

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself

Kevin Hallinan

It's not something that would have been seen at the gate. The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Carson Palmer

It's not offensive, it's harmless. He's just being Chad. He's being himself and doing what comes to his head.

Tony Stewart

For a kid like him to put himself even into that position was pretty remarkable.

Phaedrus

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Troy Robinson

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Peter Hammill

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Dick Tomey

We recovered from (Penn State). I don't think it had any lingering effects.

Michael Allen

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

Frank Lesh

It's nothing more than a psychological spot; it's like 10,000 on the Dow. In reality, the markets themselves don't see anything special about that $50 level.

John Felmy

Right now, the short-term markets are going a little crazy. If there is little damage, they can reverse themselves.

Martin Winterkorn

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Art Hogan

The way the markets have been trading this year,

Robert Brusca

There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession yet -- it's not on the radar screen.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Agbeli Ameko

You have a transition to a warming trend. Because it's switched to warmer weather, we've seen the weather markets sell off and of course, the natural-gas markets sell off as well.

Robert Goodman

You may find there is more volatility in the various markets in Europe,

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Manson

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Julie Gerberding

what we're seeing is well within the normal range for this time of year.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Mario Hernandez

We feel this will be one of the most productive work sites for them.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States does have, in fact, productive relations with Russia.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Brian Kerr

But I think Richard will be alright. I don't think it's too serious.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Kyle Petty

I never thought I had to live up to Richard Petty, ... I never had to live up to anything but what I expected.

Suzy Buchholtz

There's always somebody to help. I don't do math.

Frank Pasquarello

It was a strange turn of events. It could have been somebody else doing it for him.

Samantha Fox

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

Priscilla Presley

I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.

Pete Rose

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

Sevyn Streeter

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Melissa Doi

Are they going to be able to get somebody up here?

Ozzie Guillen

The thing about this team is, every day, somebody different.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Mark Holleran

The street is a tough place to be.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Larry Nelson

Essentially, we are migrating to a 28-foot-wide street in all residential neighborhoods.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Charles Dickens

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

Alan Greenspan

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Bennett

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Al Seckel

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Al Lopez

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

Chris Chocola

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

Chris Christie

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.