Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yao Ming

Her talent and poise is what's very compelling for companies. Her ethnicity is icing on the cake.

Judith Regan

Her history and her quest for stardom will make a compelling television series: she is a musician, a young woman, and, most important, a human being. She is a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't always listen to her mother, and hasn't spoken to her father in years.

John Skrzynski

I think the main evidence is the one he provided to the whole country. I think this is about the most compelling evidence you could possibly have.

Jim Sutcliffe

I think that the offer is compelling in terms of its logic, and I hope everyone else will see it in the same light.

Ron Dittemore

It goes back to, how likely is it that you'll have a defect? Very low. And what is your test experience? Overwhelmingly positive. Then you look at your design, and your design is to be very safe. And you look at those, and it's a compelling story.

Cisco Systems

It has been hammered on an earnings warnings very recently, but their long-term earnings are very much intact; it is a compelling price in the low 40s.

Charles Bona

I think that the fluctuations are going to be very hard for the individual investor to keep up with. But our feeling is that Microsoft is a compelling software story at these valuations, and we have an 'outperform' on the stock. Buy-and-hold is a good strategy here.

Alan Mulally

I think someday we will make another stretch, the 787-10, for sure, because it is so compelling economically.

Alan Mulally

I think someday we will make another stretch, the 787- 10, for sure, because it is so compelling economically.

Cliff Curtis

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

Nelson Mandela

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Paul Fleischman

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Ken Livingstone

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

Philip Gourevitch

In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.

Justin Chon

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

Kim Kardashian

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

Freida Pinto

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

O. Henry

The hurricanes put the icing on the cake.

Gail Maundrell

This is like the icing on the cake.

Mr. T

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Scott Prince

This is just the icing on the cake.

Jeff Horner

This is it. Hopefully, we can put the icing on the cake.

Liz Ellis

It's a matter of making sure I look after it. I'm just icing it and keeping the brace on to stop the swelling.

Sasha Cohen

It's wonderful. It means so much to skate well, and then be rewarded on top of that is icing on the cake.

Doris Roberts

Wow, this is the icing on the cake.

Fred Couples

Annika surprised us all. That was icing on the cake.

Bill Cowher

He's a very poised quarterback and he has a feel for the game,

Ernie Accorsi

I don't have to talk to Eli. If he were another type of personality, it would be different. But he's as poised a quarterback as you could want, and he handles every situation in an unflappable manner.

Richard Sichel

They are really poised to put everything together.

Phil Singer

We're in a very strong position right now. We're poised to make gains.

Bud Black

The whole year he showed that poise and composure.

Scott Rogers

We're very fortunate. We didn't play with very much poise at the end.

Scott Rogers

We were pretty fortunate; I could say lucky. If we don't play with more poise (tonight), we'll be in trouble.

Dennis Jett

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Joe Torre

He's very intelligent, not pretty intelligent. So I think he was poised to make a decision.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Joel Glazer

I think we got a lot of new talent in here,

Gordon Hartwell

I think we have the talent to win if we play well.

LeBron James

I was just showcasing my talent today and we got another win.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Alex Gee

I don't know what happened. The talent was there. I just don't know.

Scott Goodale

He is a tremendous talent. He still wants to get better.

Ken Holland

He does everything you look for in a defenseman. He's a tremendous talent.