Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Laurie

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Phil brings in a fresh perspective and coming from Best Buy , he's certainly taking some of the benefits from that and applying it to Circuit City . He's been instrumental.

Legally all member states that apply reduced rates, they have to come back to the minimum standard VAT rate in the European Union, which is 15 percent.

Senior year was the best year of my life. I didn't take the serious route; however, of applying for jobs, and I thought applying for the show would be an awesome thing to do.

So it's easier for identity thieves to take somebody's information and apply online.

Mike Colter

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.

Tina Fey

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Get to know the job intimately that you're applying for. Don't just read the job description - study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.

Tracy McMillan

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

When (truck drivers) apply the brakes, it sounds like the world's coming apart.

The 'plain' language of the enacted law is most fairly read as not applying to this case, or at the very least is ambiguous.

If we extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition we can apply that to create novel computing systems,

Bill Clinton

...If we had a serious disciplined effort to apply on a large- scale, existing clean energy and energy conservation technologies - -we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets easily in a way that would strengthen, not weaken, our economy.

Christine Lagarde

If we have tens of thousands of pullovers piled up at our frontiers, it's not very reasonable to apply it in a completely orthodox way,

If we keep focused, God will apply the Atonement to make up the difference so we can obtain eternal life.

If the rise in imports and utilization manifest this week continues next week, it could apply some downward pressure. Of course, any decline in petroleum prices would be predicated on the notion that the Iranian geopolitical situation remains relatively quiet.

We'll apply for more funding in June. This part will complete the downtown survey. We'll find where all the utilities are currently located with the survey.

It all depends on what you mean by a prostitute. If you simply mean a woman who sells her body - that would apply to any woman who marries for money.

It gets frustrating at times, but I do like our team and I believe we're heading in the right direction. It's just a matter of using those lessons learned and applying them the next time so the same mistakes don't happen again.

I thanked them for their effort and playing hard the whole season. Hopefully they learned a few things this year they can apply toward the rest of their careers.

Frank Luntz

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Hilarie Burton

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

Chellie Pingree

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

We came out and our serve receive picked up. Our serve receive was weak that third game, but we were able to stop it and move forward. And that's getting more mature when you can apply something and stop it for that next game. I was really proud of them for that.

We, by law, cannot continuously apply pesticides to the same places.

We ought to be very concerned about this, that Beijing's adherence to the rule of law should apply to the 2008 Olympics, ... I think that the Olympic committee ought to monitor Beijing very closely on the issue.

Shawn Amos

Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.

Raekwon

I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

We like to apply the color for (a) bold look, so we do a lot more thicker or wider highlight than a very fine highlight.

There's a process that a value based decision making process where we're going to look at all the alternatives on the table, evaluate them on the various criteria and various values and then apply those to the various options that are available.

As we are going through this crisis, the fundamental laws of economics tend to apply forcefully - if demand remains the same or increases and supply is reduced, prices will rise,

Nathan Deal

As we apply the final touches to the policy driven reforms of this legislation, I am grateful that my friend, Jim Gardner could come to Washington and testify as to the real world experiences in my hometown.