Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Reich

I'm going for the brevity award this year, ... To receive this award among so many great artists is in deed an honor.

Jason Taylor

I'm good now, ... I'm back among the living.

Jools Holland

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

Greg Thomas

I'm extremely excited about X05 as it gives us a chance to show off an incredible line-up under an exciting new brand - 2K Sports. The 2K line of products has always been rated among the best and now we have a brand that recognises this legacy. This year, the 2K Sports line-up has grown significantly and features titles produced in our internal studios by Visual Concepts, Kush Games and Indie Built. Each of these studios has developed award-winning sports titles and they are committed to delivering the most realistic and entertaining sports experience possible.

Charles M. Schwab

I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.

John Hoffman

I'm endlessly curious about why dogs, among all animals, have formed such a unique bond with people.

John Travolta

I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

Lupita Nyong'o

I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

They live among us. It used to be hidden, but it's becoming more open.

They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamed elephant; the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.

It was great to be back at the Eastern Area tournament. I was very pleased with our performance. We had all but three kids place among the top six.

It was great, a very good experience to really get into that element where you just train among other cyclists of same or better caliber and with a coach. I actually learned to spend time on the bike - a lot of miles, a lot of long hours. I've always heard Chris saying that to become a better rider, you have to spend a lot of time on the bike. I had a week to experience it - riding up to eight hours a day - four in the morning and four in the afternoon.

They've got a savage inside with Withers. He's a man. He's a man amongst boys. We'll have a tough time dealing with him.

There still is a perception among some people that he... doesn't want to go to court and will settle.

There was a sense among Roosevelt's generation the League of Nations had failed.

Eric Carmen

There was a period of time when there were so many bad feelings among the various members that a reunion seemed very unlikely,

There was an unease that was beginning to spread out among all the people who had come into contact with him.

There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.

There tends to be among a certain class of people a desire to be as close to the tornado as you possibly can.

There's what I'll call best practices and then there's reality. Based on our research over the past two to three years, there are significant differences in performance results that companies are experiencing with their security programs. There are some common things that are done very well among the best-class enterprises suffering the least amount of breaches and damages. But even having said that, there's probably no way to defeat a serious security threat today and it wouldn't matter what the tool is. The only way to do that would be to unplug the computers.

These places are not the same as they were 50 years ago. Municipalities are in constant competition among each other. They really need to work together to push for important reforms.

The sentiment is so horrible among investors that it's created an environment where there's so little competition that we felt there was a lot of opportunity.

These vehicles are among the cream of the crop for mid-sized cars in terms of safety performance.

These variables may have the strongest associations with longevity among older people.

These two have been among our most improved.

These three teams are among the five toughest in our league. Coming in off of these wins (the other being a 6-1 victory over West Haven last Wednesday) should give us the boost that we need.

Manmohan Singh

These terrorists wish to spread a sense of fear and suspicion among our peace-loving people,

This is a very competitive award, and it's an honor to be among the finalists. Carolina First Bank is delighted to help recognize these high-achieving schools.

This is just a continuation of a trend amongst many companies that have moved away from defined-benefit plans as a principal source of retirement income.

This is clearly Oracle reacting to competitive moves from Quest and BMC, and I'd say it's probably a smart move on their part because there's escalating interest among end users in reducing the complexity of management.

John Cornyn

I want to make sure that the burden is spread equally among all the states so that Texas is not left holding the bag,

Javier Solana

I want to tell them that they have a place, without any doubt, among the family of the European nations.