Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Constance Wu

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Jack Anderson

The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,

Jiao Yang

The police are now carrying an all-out investigation into the case. And this is only a single case.

Jorge Belevan

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

Art Hogan

The overall passion for Internet stocks is carrying over to the index itself,

Randy McMichael

We are not surprised by anything. This isn't the same old Dolphins. Last year's Dolphins would have lost this game, but this is a new team and a new day.

Chad Pennington

We talk about our football team complementing each other. The Dolphins put a good drive together, and on offense we needed to step up and put some points on the board. That's what we did.

David Levine

We knew this was always a possibility. There's still a possibility that he could resign with the Dolphins in a week or two.

Austin Stowell

Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies.

Drew Brees

We did the 1972 Dolphins a big favor. But why? Two weeks ago, the 2005 Dolphins handed us a home defeat, which might end up costing us a spot in the playoffs. It would have been sweet revenge on the Dolphins had we lost to the Colts. With all this talk of whether or not the Colts should have rested their starters, wouldn't it have been funny if we had rested ours? That would have been hilarious.

Wayne Huizenga

There are still a lot of Dolphins fans who have never had the opportunity to get to the Hall of Fame,

Don Shula

Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

Ron Jaworski

I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.

Kit Spahn

She got involved with the Dolphin Research Center. We have a picture of her swimming with the dolphins.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Matt Lucas

We were friends for four years before we started writing together, so that is the foundation on which our partnership is built.

Adam Ereli

We've made significant progress in funding projects throughout the region. We will be using MEPI money to fund our contribution ... to these two funds, the Foundation for the Future and the Fund for the Future.

Adam Ereli

We've made significant progress in funding projects throughout the region, ... We will be using MEPI money to fund our contribution ... to these two funds, the Foundation for the Future and the Fund for the Future.

Erskine Bowles

will lay a strong foundation for further action.

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Rocky Hager

We have a very good offensive line returning. That will be the foundation for how things are constructed offensively.

Steve Koonin

We have not been able to leverage our foundation at TBS,

Alonzo Church

I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a minor paper about the Lorentz transformation, the foundation of (special) relativity theory.

Steven Kaye

The 401(k) can get you where you want to go, it's just a shame that you have to fund it yourself.

Craig Bryson

The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Warren Huff

We're working with funds where individuals are putting money into deals.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Travis Reindl

When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last.

Joanne Vavrek

We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.

M. Wolfe

It did work out a little better than we thought. But you have to remember that one key part of all this is that we're still using our fund balance.

Jim Gibbons

We can always do better and we will by making sure government respects the wishes of those who fund it ? the hardworking taxpayers,

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Chris Snyder

We've done a lot of research on it, and we don't know which way we'll go if offered one or the other, or both. We'll have to wait and see who wants us.

Wade Wimmer

We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.

Scott Strasemeier

I think people would feel differently if he didn't feel like he made a mistake. He apologized right away. He offered his resignation.

William Brownfield

For more than 20 years, the United States has offered replacement parts for the F-16 planes,

Pao Xiong

He offered me a lot of cash. I just called my supervisor, and he ran off.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'