Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idina Menzel

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

Richard P. Feynman

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

Carrie Brownstein

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

Ashton Kutcher

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

Bill Vaughan

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Ron Myers

We need to keep creating turnovers. Special teams was much improved.

Robin S. Sharma

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

Dennis Barry

Time after time they have helped us by expanding or creating new programs.

Robin Lee

You are creating a ghetto within a ghetto.

Chuck Palahniuk

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Ron Oden

Who knows what crises situations there might be when people are placed in that position and they're not developed? ... I'm not saying that I won't run again, but I'd have to feel something really, really special in order to stay.

Ben Bernanke

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Jim Yong Kim

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

John Prendergast

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

Alan Greenspan

While the adjustments may be difficult for a time, these crises will pass. Stronger individual economies and a more robust and efficient international economic and financial system will surely emerge in their wake,

Sidney Blumenthal

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

Buddha

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

John Macdonald

We are obviously disappointed. But we're very pleased as to the (acquittal of) fraud charges.

Glenn Jennings

We hope the word is getting out that insurance fraud will not be tolerated in Kentucky.

David Boies

I would be very, very surprised if we uncovered a large fraud at this stage. The work we have done would have been enough to uncover a very large fraud at this stage.

Al Pacino

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

John Payne

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

Tim Potts

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.

Bernard Ebbers

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

Tony Dixon

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

John Ortberg

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Nina Easton

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

John Schwartz

The $24 million jumped off the page. At first, I thought it was a typo, ... Then I kept reading and said, 'No, they're not joking.'

Connie Lemos

We were his legacy, and we just want to thank all of the people who have kept his memory alive.

David Phillips

We were going to play it here if we kept these theaters.

Sarah Soesbee

We've kept our reputation by playing hard. We may have less superstars, but we're probably more team-oriented.

Kevin Coleman

We've kept all the artifacts, all the character.

Ilian Evtimov

We just couldn't stop them on defense. They just kept scoring at will.

Ian Snell

I thought I was getting squeezed a little bit. I wanted to lose control, but I just kept my composure. I'd just turn around and slap my thigh.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Matt Clement

I don't think we're worried about who's the underdog or the favorite, we just get to the postseason and now you have the opportunity, ... Hopefully, we can seize it.

Bill Watterson

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.

Horace

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Joely Richardson

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Lloyd Alexander

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Charles Rosser

I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. We struggled in 4A for a while. I feel like now we are right where we belong.

M. Thompson

We struggled with that, ... made all the sense in the world.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.