Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Natalie Imbruglia

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

Jack Wilson

We have a very young starting rotation and I think it's important that they know they can lean on our offense to score some runs and take some pressure off them.

Josh Silver

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Emanuel Steward

He'd lean over and whisper to me that this is never going to leave Detroit. He made me promise.

Vanessa Friedman

For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal,

Brian Seymore

We're going to lean on Sam all season. He makes plays no one else can make.

Kris Carr

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Axl Rose

I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

Jean Chatzky

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

Ronald Jones

The Premier League, for the first time in three years, will have a title sponsor who will also lend support to the senior national team and the U nder-21 team.

Michael Rushford

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

Todd Shaw

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Lowell Highby

We are looking for more special pictures - ones that would lend themselves to a whole page - of people and unique settings.

Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Steve Erickson

A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.

Kurt Barnard

It will lend luster to the mall, ... This means Indianapolis has the demographics to support a Tiffany.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Wayne Levi

We were struggling to score low a little bit, but everyone had fun,

Tom Shrader

We're up 15 or 20 percent off our (July 24) lows. But September is a tricky month historically. We could retest recent lows by as much as 10 percent before we're able to really move higher.

Pete Carroll

We're really low on numbers, especially wide receivers. Do you want to do it?

David Tronson

Most Americans spend more than they usually have, which is why we have the lowest savings rate in the world.

Jim Shaw

While we're OK with the results, they were probably a little low to even our expectations.

Andy Reid

I thought he would be a low second- or third-round pick. I think most people had him in that area, but for whatever reason, he fell.