Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Spencer Waller

I had expected there to be some more hearings. I would have expected him to entertain witnesses, but not engage in the full-fledged discovery that Microsoft wanted. That would have given them a little victory, and to the extent where if the court of appeals disagrees with him, it would be on the merits, not the process.

Hank Greely

The bond market wants to be very certain that these bonds will be repaid, which means even a trial victory may not be enough for a bond market. It may have to go through appeals and be affirmed on appeals before the bonds can actually be sold.

Howard Davidowitz

Stuckey's strategy would be to take a plain low-priced product like jeans and embellish it with design. Suddenly it becomes a 'fashion' jeans and appeals to a new ethnic audience. It's the same strategy with 7,

Kathi Glist

It's very much a celebration of women. It appeals mostly to women. Men get dragged to it, but end up loving it.

Dave Williams

It?s not something that appeals to me. It?s quirky. But I?m glad to see it out here in public and changing all the time.

David Prowse

It's obviously primarily for sci-fi fans, but it's a nice sort of quirky movie that appeals to all sorts of people. I think it's quite good.

Jim Cullinan

It's surprising that they took 17 pages to respond to our two-paragraph request for a stay from the trial court. These requests are normally pro-forma. The real request for a stay is filed at the appeals court level.

Thom Cooper

They are a well trained group of dancers with an outstanding international reputation. Sleeping Beauty is a classic story and appeals to younger audiences as well as the traditional patron.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Joe Cocker

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

Pat Campbell

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

Tae Satoya

The course out there has artificial snow and is stiff, which may prove to be of my advantage.

Tristan Tzara

Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head.

Michel Alaby

They want to come to Brazil after tour agents. They were after material for production of matches, furniture, leather and plastic shoes, iron bars, machinery for the textile industry, electronic products, artificial sweetener, machinery for preparation and preservation of food for hotels and restaurants.

John Cornyn

an artificial landmark. Of course we grieve over each one of those losses, but it's an artificial number that some are using to try to undermine support for our effort there. These are people without any constructive alternative; is cutting and running what we're supposed to do?

Jim Porter

This bill would create an unfair artificial market and a potential environmental problem.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Richard Cohen

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Diane Ravitch

Removing books from the library is a no-no.

Mo Ibrahim

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made.

Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Stevie Smith

The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind.

Genghis Khan

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?

Charles Dickens

It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.

Adam Mansbach

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

William Wordsworth

The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

Geoff Brown

I think we'll feed them and they'll feed us, ... When you can see the neon sign of the bank, the restaurant or whatever, the businesses are there, that's great. It's a great partnership.

Peter Mirsky

I think what they've created is the fastest growing company in the media space focused on interactivity. In a nutshell, you had the Internet bust, valuations go bust, but clearly there is value to the businesses that can be done on the Internet.

Tom Perkins

It gives the city a mechanism to more quickly and more effectively stop businesses that are masquerading as legitimate businesses,

Kim Elliott

It gives businesses guidance on how to take the next steps.

Jane Jankowski

Remember that if this is a deal that we end up finalizing, that this company will want to maximize the use of the Toll Road. They will be eager to have local businesses involved.

Paul Anderson

Our major businesses contributed to the improved results in 2005. I expect the company to continue on a positive trajectory with an equally strong performance in 2006.

Arnie Berman

In the midst of the mania there were a whole lot of companies that went public that were just pure plays on the willingness of businesses to throw money at new projects, ... Now that a lot of these companies have had difficult times, it makes sense that there would be consolidation.

Harvey Rosenfield

California motorists, homeowners and businesses can expect to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars more every year for insurance if the insurance industry is able to trick the voters into passing their initiatives.

Craig Benson

California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.

Bob Brenly

I don't think he derived a whole lot of satisfaction from being a closer. It just didn't ring his bell. We think giving him a job he wants, we think he could be something special.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Yuri Kochiyama

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

Zhuangzi

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Viola Spolin

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Diane Nelson

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Rick Tocchet

In your career, it's nice to be known that you stood up for your teammates but it's also nice that when your team needed a goal, you were put out in those situations.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Pokey Chatman

I learned a lot about basketball. I learned more about life.

Elizabeth Miller

I learned what invasive species I have. Even in my own backyard.

Chris Lee

I learned to swallow my pride. Swallow it and walk away.

Ruth Saunders

The first thing we learned was to pronounce his name:

George Hamilton

The cha-cha-cha is not the one I learned in Mexico. The tango is not the one I saw in Argentina. They have their own way of doing things.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

John C. Maxwell

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Paul Gascoigne

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Learned Hand

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

Ken Follett

I enjoy learning technical details.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

M. Wolfe

None of the property rights that we have is absolute,

Henry Giles

No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.

Claude Allen

Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied.