Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lizzy Caplan

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Burn Gorman

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

Carl Edwards

The other day I woke up and went down to my truck at my apartment and somebody had written: 'Go Tony. No. 20' on my truck,

There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.

Robert Kiyosaki

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Mark Margolis

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

Gil Kleiman

The army and police force give their officers flak jackets, but their souls are ripped apart with no protection whatsoever. The help does not come from the establishment but from private places.

Josh Beckett

That's the way we feel. We'll see how things play out. I hope they don't tear this team apart and we have to start all over. I know we have some good young guys coming up, but it would be tough for a lot of us to swallow if we have to start over.

John McCarthy

That's baloney. There isn't a company in the world that wouldn't try to stop people from ripping apart its beta version.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Terry Francona

Is it going to happen? It might not happen, but we're trying to cover every base we can.

Jim Tracy

Is he not a guy going into day one who is considered a Gold Glove candidate -- and a Gold Glove candidate that can go out there and get 200 base hits if he uses the whole field and hits intelligently with the situations that are in front of him?

Kevin Youkilis

I've been taking groundballs out there for about two months. It's an easier throw than from third base and the (double play) turns don't really get me so much.

Jim Tracy

Think about the ... significance of ... how many at-bats he takes this year with men on base because the guy (Casey) hitting in front of him is going to be on base. There's going to be a number of times that he's going to come up to the plate with people on base and have the opportunity to either extend the inning, put a game away or extend leads. All those possibilities will be there.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Anthony Chan

Next week's producer price index or consumer price index could tip the Fed in favor of a June hike if they're on the upside.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Jill Krutick

Cheese, while a consumer product, is very different than toys which can be fad-driven,

Fadi Farra

Most people don't know that the Middle East has one of the highest growth in consumer spending in the world.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Dan Ryan

This really is a new application driven by the customer base.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Judy Greer

He said please open up the register now, I don't want to hurt you. I was more worried about my customer than myself and I wasn't scared. I saw that he had like a little pen knife.

Steve Todd

You can only be in so many places so often. Mystery shopping is a great way to get organized feedback on ticket times, food quality, customer perception of value and all the service points you're trying to hit.

Howard Rubel

The ultimate customer is the flying public, and as long as you have more demand for seats than you do supply of seats, then the production of jetliners is going to go up.

Kenes Bowling

It's real important to our customer libraries that patron goodwill be protected. So we use a gentle approach. We help patrons understand the importance of libraries to their communities and most patrons respond.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Robert Milton

The year kicks off with the efforts on Jazz.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Simone Weil

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Steve Martin

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

Ron Paul

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

Stuart Rothenberg

The environment is better and better for Democrats.

Rick Riordan

I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Dave McAlindin

Because we were able to do what we did, Universal Foods was able to expand here rather than in Grand Rapids.

Sam Carroll

He gave me support to expand the idea.

Zac Wright

In its first six months, it has already grown from five schools to 11. The program was started six months ago with the intention of expanding it, and that's already been happening.

Evan Steinberg

This is a lot more than a T-shirt company. We want to expand from our Web store to small boutiques and some national retail chains, but that's not the end goal. We're really trying to push the educational side of what we're doing.

Richard Rippe

It means manufacturing is expanding sluggishly and that's probably about what we want.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Richard Williams

The growth rate is not very impressive, ... Why pay such an exorbitant multiple on earnings?

Mahatma Gandhi

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

Sherry Sylvester

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

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Matt Rosoff

They have to find a way to increase search traffic. You'll have to look a year from now to see if they made any progress.

Walter Jones

It's fine, man. When you get an opportunity, the increase in notoriety will come. There's really enough here for everybody.

Suzanne Marchman

That's an increase of 4,000 from the previous day. So, we don't know when it's going to slow down.

Judy Blume

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

Sathya Baba

The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Orson Scott Card

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Jason Boyd

We tried to pressure and trap in order to pick up the tempo.

Ed Byrne

We weren't going to get into a situation by where this had to come off the table in order for that to happen,

Donna Tartt

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.