Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Kelly

I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

Geoff Hoon

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

Michael Dell

The 55 percent growth is very consistent with what we've seen over the last 14 years,

Jonathan Fulton

That was a great experience. The thing that I realized was that the game isn't any different, it's just that everyone's more consistent and the pitchers are around the plate more. That's really the only difference. Nobody was real overpowering.

Sean Murphy

We just didn't play well. We just weren't consistent on offense, which makes it tough on defense.

Chris Renner

We hadn't played well in two games here, but we're not the same team we were then. We have been improving each game. We're more consistent on offense, and we played great defense.

Angie Krebs

We were so consistent throughout the entire game. It was great to see.

Kevin Stallings

We've had consistent breakdowns, especially offensively. Unfortunately, some of the same guys are making the mistakes.

Fidel Ramos

We have been very consistent in our position that the labor issues be better addressed by the International Labor Organization, ... and that the human rights issues be taken up in the political arena.

Stephen Baker

The PC is a big durable goods item now. When the economy is slowing, people tend to reduce their spending on those kinds of things.

John C. Calhoun

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

Travis Thomas

I thought I showed, first of all, that I was a durable back since I took all the reps for my team. I showed some speed, some acceleration, some vision. And I just showed some will.

Sam Dubbin

We hope it will stand as a durable lesson for the future.

Scott Turow

Yes, that's a pretty durable Turow theme. Everyone has two sides.

Michael Woolfolk

Given the recent spate of positive January data, CPI and durable goods are unlikely to disappoint. The USD is positioned to make new gains ... as favorable U.S. growth and interest rate differentials weigh on market sentiment.

Pat Hill

He's a very durable running back. He's always getting us the tough yard. The first two weeks of the season we didn't use him much. We rode him pretty hard (against Toledo) last week.

Ned Colletti

We think Brett is a huge plus. He's been so durable, probably a 200-inning guy. Having starters who are durable gives us more options in the rotation, in the bullpen.

Andrew Friedman

We are happy to have Harper back in 2006. Travis has been very versatile and durable in his seasons with the Rays. Travis pitched very well down the stretch and we expect him to be a positive contributor.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Mary Pipa

That was a tough one. (Montoursville) just took over the net. When they won the second set (7-5) I think it gave them a boost.

Johnny Podres

That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.

Terry Wilczek

That was a key play. That gave us a big lift and some momentum going into halftime. We needed to keep them out of the end zone.

Glenn Ford

One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.

C. S. Lewis

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

C. S. Lewis

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

Bill Bryson

No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

Bill Bryson

There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.

Bernadette Devlin

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Arrigo Sacchi

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

Arsene Wenger

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I was the class clown type of guy.

Taye Diggs

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Ryan Robertson

We're not used to that type of athleticism in our league. They get in your mind.

David Morse

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.