Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Batt

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic - I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.

Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

Zig Ziglar

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

Richard Bach

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Ray Bradbury

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

Ariel Pink

I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

Sandra Pupatello

We have to bring in a bill that is balanced, ... Most people aren't adopted so most people have no concept of the impact it has on people growing up and living their lives not knowing where they come from. It's nothing that we can ever imagine.

We have to be very aggressive and creative in how we get our movies out theatrically. The main problem we confront is how expensive print advertising is and how do we get around buying big print ads.

We have to be ready for both 3-4 or 4-3. Either way, they've got good talent, (and) their defensive tackles (Pat and Kevin Williams) are outstanding. We spent time (in training camp) on the 3-4 and it shouldn't be a big adjustment for us. Regardless of where they line up inside, we've got to block them.

We have several opportunities that we have yet to take advantage of and with some home games in the near future, we have to take care of business. We've recently played two teams in the Top 25 and it was a challenge, but now we're ready for the future.

(We have) seven strong returning players with much experience and four new additional players to complement them. We must simply do our job and get it done.

We have seven children, two that are biological, they are 18 and 15, we have three adopted, one almost adopted and a foster child and they are all under the age of three.

We have seen people advertise dresses online that they bought at David's Bridal for $700 and they try to resell for $650, claiming it was originally $1,000.

We have seen how someone in their team inevitably contributes when needed. Our tail can learn a great deal from Gillespie. Not only his double century, he was also involved in a big partnership with Adam Gilchrist in the first Test when they were in a corner and Brett Lee also took the game away from us with his batting in the second innings. The bottom line is we all need to work a bit more harder.

This ship's spirit has emerged out of adversity - forged in a hurricane.

This settlement does not constitute any admission of guilt for any violations. Swift will continue to pursue its goal of attracting and hiring a diverse work force.

This senior class really turned the corner athletically and academically. They're a symbol for every child in Camden to follow. They've had a lot of adversity to live through -- including three head coaches -- but they were committed to athletics and academics.

John Thain

This will mark the beginning of a new era for the exchange and America 's financial markets. As a for-profit, publicly held company, the NYSE Group will be better positioned to grow, create value and compete globally. We will provide customers with more choice in trading, an advanced technology platform, a broader product mix, and listing opportunities among a wider group of companies.

This will give our delegates lengthy one?on?one time with our federal lawmakers. To have that additional time is wonderful.

This will give a larger subscriber base a chance to try XM content without going through the hassle of getting the necessary equipment. If they find the programming valuable, it would be a lot easier to sign them up. The added distribution that XM will get from this relationship will be very beneficial.

This will bring some opportunities to some of the other drive vendors. However, it may be a challenge for those players to pick up additional business because the industry is fully utilized in terms of capacity.

This will benefit us in the long run in the tournament. We've faced every type of adversity throughout the season. We've been down before and lost leads. Now, we're ready for tournament play.

This was a new team we had never seen before with different plays we had never seen before. Their different kinds of offenses helped us adjust to their way of playing. Hopefully, next time we'll make a smoother transition from man to man to zone defense.

This was a new event, and there is always the fear of the unknown. But we got some advice from other schools, and I don't think anything has scared us too much.

This was a match we need a little bit. Just to get back on the winning track. Obviously it was one where we enjoyed some physical mismatches, and I think we took advantage of that.

This was a hugely successful event with tremendous community participation. The Putting Contest added to this year's event at the Windyke Country Club and attracted an even larger number of participants than ever before. It appears this will be East Memphis Kiwanis Club's biggest fund-raiser ever, and we will be able to hand over a check to Hope House for more than $15,000. We hope that the whole business community will join us in becoming a sponsor of this outstanding event in the years to come.

Mike Rudd

This was a great team win. We battled through adversity and proved we're more than a one man team.

This was a great season and I'm so proud of these guys for fighting through what they fought through and the adversity they have been through.

There is real enthusiasm for peace but possibly not real enthusiasm for the necessary compromises. I would not advise on the specifics of the compromises. It's a complex matter.

There is phenomenal momentum behind search engine advertising. The number of advertisers using search to market products continues to grow, as does the overall efficiency of the market-- search engines are getting even better at making money off search engine results pages.

There is only one world record-holder. And we have him. Paul's addition to our field gives us the best men's race we've had in more than a decade.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.