Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Stephens

While we applaud the difficult decision to reduce the workforce in order to enhance shareholder value, yesterday's restructuring announcement leads us to suspect headwinds may be stronger than previously indicated.

Walter Smith

We want to applaud and celebrate where steps forward have occurred, but criticize and lament where steps have not been taken. We're talking about an issue that is of life-and-death consequence in the nation's capital.

Giovanni Bisignani

I applaud Malaysia's leadership in ratifying this important convention, which creates an international legal framework that will help attract finance to the aviation industry.

Gregory Geoffroy

I applaud Director (Robert) Mueller for reaching out to Iowa State and other universities.

David Collins

I saw Beckham go over and applaud the Welsh fans at the end of the match which was a magnificent gesture on his behalf. He appreciated the fantastic support they had given the Welsh team.

George McGovern

My role tonight is to sit there and enjoy it and applaud at the appropriate places in case he says something wise,

William Crow

We believe the Street should view the 41 cents per share number as the truest operating metric and therefore applaud this morning's report card.

Jodi Picoult

I think libraries are an important part of the community. If it wasn't for librarians recommending our books to people coming into the library unsure of what to read, where would authors be? I really applaud this community for being so serious about giving to their libraries.

Brent Martin

I applaud you for taking the initiative of starting the acquisition process, and I encourage you to finish it.

Helio Castroneves

Once you do it, you have to keep it going. You have to understand, he (Stewart) is not the one who started that. When he's in the mood to do it, he might do it. I have fun with it, and obviously it would be a thrill to climb this fence here and celebrate with the fans.

Jane Gillette

The whole concept was to celebrate spring, not illustrate Washington.

Paula Abdul

You moved me. ... You celebrate what this competition is all about, and you are an American Idol.

Bob Kemp

We want to celebrate the immense positive contribution of volunteers in Henderson County.

Lord Mayor

We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Kevin Walsh

She loved events. This is the kind of thing that would celebrate what Kathleen would do. She loved to go to softball games and tournaments. That was the main reason.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Steve Golden

I hated them. To think that they're celebrating their heritage, the first World Series they won, they have no right to do that. I know a lot of people feel the same way. They won the Series in '59. They can celebrate the '59 Series and everything since L.A., but they don't have to celebrate '55.

Ritchie Blackmore

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Rick Santorum

I'm probably known most by the work I do in Washington on the big issues of the day and I'm criticized sometimes for taking on the big issues of the day like Social Security,

Angie Lucier

It just seemed to happen so quick. It really messed up our rotation. I'm not one to criticize officials, and we don't want to use anything as an excuse, but it just threw off everything we did.

John Ferguson

It's very unusual for there to be a situation where there is nothing to criticize ... This is one of those very special colts.

Wes Walz

I took so many things for granted as a young hockey player. From the time I was 20 to 24, I was the first guy to criticize somebody else if I wasn't playing well. I was lazy. That frustrated my dad a lot. I remember him telling me, if you put something into it, and work hard, you'll always get something out of it. You won't know when it's going to happen. It could be years down the road.

Chris Colfer

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

Frankie J. Alvarez

I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when people criticize my work, they're also criticizing me. It's really hard to sort of divorce that sensitivity.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Eric Patterson

The only time we'll have to play a Broward or Dade team is if we play them in the state championship. We're looking forward to that.

Gary Smith

Bret Harte stuck it to us last year. We learned a lesson. Our kids are looking forward to playing them again.

Recep Erdogan

Turkey has taken a giant step forward on its historic march.

Sergio Garcia

You have to realize you are going to have to make some birdies. You have a lot of par-4s you are hitting wedges into, and these guys can play, so you have to make some birdies. I'm looking forward to (today).

Duane DeSpain

We won it with possession, superior forward play and grit at the very end. Our conditioning really paid off.

Dan Whittle

We start (training) in March every Sunday. They look forward to it every week. They train very hard. This is what they look forward to.

Mirko Mikelic

What incentive is there for GM dealers to use GMAC going forward if it is not really part of GM?

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Sonya Boralv

We just learned of this issue and are looking into it.

Charles Spurgeon

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

Romain Grosjean

Its always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Rio Ferdinand

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece

Sophie Swetchine

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

Paulo Coelho

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.