Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean McAmmond

But I've learned in the past years that I play my best when I just prepare properly. I think I can bring a lot of experience. I have a lot of speed. And with the new rule changes, I think that it'll probably be an advantage for me.

Bea Arthur

But I've been doing it most of my adult life, and I like the idea of a one woman show, because it's something I can do when I want to, and not to it when I don't want to do it.

Both teams hung in there. I admire River Ridge. They battled and didn't give up. It was a well-played softball game with a lot of defensive plays on both sides.

Both teams have had some time to adjust to one another. As a team, it was a huge win for us and we were happy with the result (on Saturday), but we weren't happy with the way we played.

Both (state trips) are good, but I think I like this one better because we showed we can overcome some adversity and get back.

Both sides should work to find pragmatic ways to address the deficit. For example, as China has proposed many times, the United States should ease its rigid controls on technology exports.

Catherine Mary Stewart

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

Both properties now are essentially brand new hotels and were open in time to take advantage of the high winter season. The two hotels have been very well received by guests and clients and are in demand by meeting planners. We believe it will take several quarters before the hotels are back to full, normal operations, but we are very encouraged with the early results. Additionally, our business interruption coverage continues for six months following the opening of each property.

Amy Heckerling

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

Amy Heckerling

It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

Alison Gopnik

Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.

Alex Berenson

Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages.

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.

Per Petterson

I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.

Peter Beard

In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ.

Peter Beard

We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.

Peter Higgs

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

Peter Capaldi

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

Muhammad Yunus

I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.

Muhammad Yunus

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

Michael K. Powell

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

Matt Bomer

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

Phyllis Logan

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

Chuck Palahniuk

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Confucius

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Clint Eastwood

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Charles Spurgeon

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The governor welcomes supporters from all backgrounds. This contribution was made by an adult and is perfectly legal.

Don Williams

The governor surprised everyone a couple of months ago with this plan to eliminate the car tax but when everyone looked at it they realized that the numbers were wrong, it wasn't going to ad up.