Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bronfman

In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

Ron Nehring

Is it illegal to have a friendship with someone who has business with the government? And if that's not illegal, then what kinds of relationships are proper or improper? Those are amorphous questions with amorphous answers.

Bob Verdi

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.

Jessica Valenti

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Will Eisner

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival.

Donald Greenberg

People may have feelings about an issue in some amorphous way, but then something happens that crystallizes these feelings and that helps people distinguish between position A and position B. Wedge issues sharpen those feelings.

Fay Vincent

He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.

Bradley Chicho

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Autre Ne Veut

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

Bob Kurtz

I was looking for something to do this summer, and I enjoy baseball a lot. Baseball and radio are a nice combination.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Frank Lautenberg

Keeping a Cold War era base open and closing Fort Monmouth, which is essential to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , makes no sense,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Brian Graham

Jose Bautista needs at-bats. He's shown he has that power, that he can hit at Class AA, which was exactly the right level for him last year. If he does the same thing in Indianapolis this year, then he's earned the chance to be the everyday third baseman in Pittsburgh.

John Hart

Jon is young, but he has the qualities that you look for in a leader, ... He has the respect of everyone in the organization, the business department, the baseball people, the veteran scouts. He's going to be a great leader.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Dave Esquer

Josh had one of his best offensive days when he played second base at Davis. And whether it's psychological or not, we tried it out just to see, and he did well today. He looked much better at the plate.

David Nelson

Kellogg recognizes the importance of constantly streamlining costs ... That is how it has avoided, and we think will continue to avoid, the margin deterioration that has plagued the industry.

John Ellinger

He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.

Terry Labonte

It is pretty obvious when you drive through any race track and there are No. 3 flags around everywhere and still fans with (Earnhardt) hats, shirts and jackets. We are constantly reminded of him.

Jim Ratcliffe

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Joseph Muscat

Lawrence Gonzi is constantly taking the wrong decisions to the detriment of the Maltese and is not interested in tackling problems seriously

Justin Chon

I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have.

Jack Whitehall

I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

Megan Hilty

I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.

James Marsden

I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.

Roger Clemens

just to try and look at the details of everything that happened.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Ann Beattie

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

Eva Nogales

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

Shawn Ashmore

I think, ultimately, those little details come through, even if it's just in my head.

James Mitchell

I think that's going to be probably one of the major stumbling blocks. Some of the details we're going to have to work out.

Dave Lockett

There aren't any details to discuss at this time. We're expecting that the team will go to the White House some time in the spring. As we get more information, we'll pass it along.

Jerry Sloan

Guys played a lot harder. They played a lot more determined to try to win, rather than the way we have been.

Mewelde Moore

He's a classy, determined individual. Those are the characteristics you love to see in a head coach.

Jim Clarke

Going back to the farm and isolating the virus will let us determine whether we have a concern.

Paul Hawkins

It is actually quite a great moment in the sport when technology is trying to step in and determine point ending shots.

Nick Cave

I was determined not to spend inordinate amounts of time on something I felt would fundamentally never get made.

Andy Bryant

There is no good valuation model to determine the fair value of unexercised employee stock options. Including an unreliable estimate of the fair value of options in the income statement would distort earnings.

Ken Cutlip

We talked about the fact that rebounding would determine the outcome. We rebounded well in the first half and were able to get some easy shots, but we ran out of gas.

Jay Weatherill

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Joe Barker

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

Ed Swanson

Knowing it was Senior Day, Nicolle was emotional in the locker room before the game, but after she hit some shots and got her rhythm, she got that swagger that had been missing for the last few games. When she hits shots from the perimeter like she did today, it makes us a better team.

Bill Self

I would say that if you could try to sum up those guys' four years, and the emotions they have, and multiply it by 15, that would give you an idea of what it will be like for Max. I would think he will be very emotional.

Bill Cowher

Joey is the emotional leader for our football team without question. He is the kind of guy that gets us going. We have some unique personalities and Joey is unique in his own sense. I've never been one to try and harness guys. I just want them to be respectful of the game and of the opponents. I love a team that plays with emotion, plays with passion. I love being around people that love to do that and Joey does it in his own way and without a doubt, Joey is the emotional leader for our team.

Michael Haneke

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Roger Massey

He didn't show any emotion. He was not crying.

Kevin Cooney

He could take over a game. Not many people could do the things he does. It's a huge loss, but he gave the team an emotional lift whenever he was up.

Mike White

He is usually reserved and doesn't show emotion. That just showed how much relief there was in him and our team.

Emily White

There are so many emotions. I've never been more happy and sad at the same time. I'm happy because we won and sad because it's our last high school game.

Niki Caro

Her physical transformation was really interesting and astounding, but it was her emotional transformation, what she was doing emotionally in that film. Her work was unbelievable.

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Beth Givens

I think it's probably going to be as big of an issue as say, identity theft.

Troye Sivan

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

Reid Hoffman

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

Samuel P. Huntington

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

Samuel P. Huntington

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Tullian Tchividjian

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

Tullian Tchividjian

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Valerie Harper

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Loesje

I had a nice memory.....now the next one.

Margaret Tennis

In memory of Peggy, who was such a teacher, this loom will be in her memory.

Robert Johnston

It showed us that this region is necessary for recognition memory. The hippocampus has also been implicated for recognition memory in humans.

Michael Crowe

Eventually, they wear you down to where you don't even trust yourself. You can't trust your memory anymore.

Scott Reynolds

It's still a tropical storm but it won't be much longer. By midnight, it should be a memory.

Philo

It was really cool, ... Hopefully, I'll be able to make this memory again.

Eric Bana

It's a very vivid memory and the violence of it really struck me,

Gwyn Richards

It's a way to give memory to our students.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Rodney Eade

He's been doing wrestling and competitive-type stuff for the past month.

Carl Jung

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Carl Jung

You can’t change the past, it just is

Carl Jung

You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask,she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.

Carl Jung

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

Carl Jung

When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Gregg Popovich

It always has been that people didn't think we were for real,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Dylan Brooks

It was a hobbyist pursuit that served a much narrower niche.

P. T. Barnum

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Duncan Fletcher

They've got to be just more selective sweeping.

Jonathan Safran Foer

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

Craig Thompson

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

Jill Soloway

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

Richard Greenfield

If there's a strategy there, I don't see it yet.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Bob Defillippo

It's part of our strategy to diversify distribution.

Nicholas Negroponte

Scale will get you strategy.

Mohammed Dahlan

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

Pete Hegseth

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

Patrick Dixon

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.