Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important that, to the extent possible, those contingency plans be coordinated, that each branch work in concert with the other. I don't think that's been done adequately to date, but I am confident that it could be in the future,

Peter Angelos

I think the past three years Jim Beattie has been leading the effort with strong assistance from Mike. Now it will be Mike's chance. I think Mike is very capable and a very bright guy who certainly is adequate to perform the job.

Kathy Lewis

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Piet Smith

We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances and equipment, we can't render this service as well as we should be.

Richard Martin

We are finding that the President has surrounded himself with some capable and pretty knowledgeable people. I am comfortable that they will adequately be able to represent the issues.

Gerald Garrett

It is probably not going to happen, ... At this point, I have had no indication from the members that we need to have a formal hearing to adequately explore this matter.

John Hines

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

James Loney

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

Angus Campbell

The only thing that can stop further declines in the market today is a tame ISM figure and lower oil prices,

Hugh Johnson

Hardware, software and semiconductors are the three top-performing groups right now, and there has been a decline in oil prices. These things are pushing the markets up.

Hirokaza Yuihama

I think the price decline pressure is gradually easing.

Pat Livingston

We feel hopeful there will be a reversal of decline in enrollment.

Jim Smith

The purpose of pay phones was to serve people in motion. Wireless phones now serve that same purpose, which is why we're seeing a decline in pay phones throughout the United States.

George Washington

When, in the decline of Life, I gratify the fond wish of my heart in retiring from public labors, and find the language of approbation and fervent prayers for future happiness following that event, my heart expands with gratitude and my feelings beco

Richard Jaffe

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

George Glynos

If you look at the historical volatilities of the rand you'll find that they have declined through the year.

Joel Sawyer

If you look at our labor force, despite a slight decline in the past month, our labor force is still the fourth fastest growing in the U.S..

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

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.

Immanuel Kant

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

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).

Alan Greenspan

A gradual reduction over time of the GSE portfolios should be a non-event to investors and market participants, other than GSE shareholders,

Barry Long

The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.

Howard Waldron

It's going to be a gradual warming trend overnight.

Kelly Klein

Actually, it looks a lot harder than it is. It has a very gradual incline.

I. Stone

This obviously suggests that if they were going to tighten monetary policy and raise rates, it would be in a very gradual fashion.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Michael Showalter

Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

John Devine

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs,

Eric Holder

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

Paul Feig

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Stephen King

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hell is the inability to love.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Anton LaVey

It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Rick Fox

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Sarah Palin

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Vince Young

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

William Vickrey

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

Samantha Barks

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Mike James

If you get that type of lead, the toughest thing is to maintain it. But we did which shows that as a team we're going in the right direction.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Fadel Gheit

All they want to do is maintain the same speed.

Michael Costigan

It's important we maintain strong ties with Kankakee at all levels.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

David Nelson

They'll spread rumors and give their peers the silent treatment. They do whatever works to maintain control.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

David Reeves

He's a very physical kid, but I think he played physical in basketball, too, when I watched him. He was always up on you bumping guys.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Willie Randolph

He has to feel real strong physically and throw a little bit. You don't want to play around with a hamstring.

Rich Manning

He is a very reliable defenseman who is physically gifted. He can recover and play a lot of minutes.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Marlon Defillo

I would not say we're at 100 percent. We're still in the process of rebuilding our infrastructure. But in terms of the department's responsiveness to the community, we are functional.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Phil Frame

We're in the process of interviewing right now. We take their statements, then go back to the site to verify what they said they saw.

Pearl Norris

We're in the process of getting it started.

Bob Hill

We've got to get Vitaly in shape. And there's a process in that.

Larry Brown

I think we just sometimes don't understand how we get leads, and time and score. We're just young and this is the process you've got to live with.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

Samuel Hopkins

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

Ricki Lake

Hey, I don't produce my shows, I just show up to work!

Jonathan Zittrain

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

Brian Rolston

I've got to produce if we want to be successful.

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Rasheed Wallace

I don't know what they were trying to do. But whatever it was, it didn't work.