Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madison Smartt Bell

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

John Browning

Our continued performance delivery has underpinned our capacity to increase the dividend,

Jim Calhoun

Overall, I thought it was a good win for us, but I don't think we played as well as we're capable of.

Overall, the data for the capital goods sector remains somewhat erratic, but the underlying trend remains upward.

Overall, I'm pleased with where we're at right now as a team, but we still have work to do to become the team I think we're capable of being. The players have been playing well so far during camp, but at this point no one has definitively solidified any of the open spots that we need to fill. Right now, there's plenty of playing time up for grabs.

Overall, I feel that the team had a strong performance. The guys were able to hang around and not let the other teams separate themselves. I've got a real good feeling heading into tomorrow, knowing that we have five guys capable of getting the job done.

Overall, durable orders need to be looked at on a trend basis, and even after the drop in orders other than transportation orders ... the capital good sector remains very healthy and will contribute solidly to growth throughout 2006.

Our V-boy game is ready to launch now with operators all over the world. We have even improved upon the great 3D graphics of our v-girl game as we are using motion capture animations for all scenes of the game and we have included over a dozen interactive mini games within the game. It is great fun to play.

Lionel Barber

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

Phil Angelides

Our urban neighborhoods were being overlooked by traditional investors. Too often these inner-city markets were being written off as places of risk, ... The private markets and private capital shunned these areas.

Jack Wagner

Our weakness right now is overconfidence. Just because we haven't lost a game in two years, doesn't mean every time we put our caps on and get in the water everyone is going to roll over for us.

Out there, you always have to keep your confidence, no matter what happens. The last play is gone. You've got to think about this play. We know what he's capable of, and we feel like we've got a great defense and a great team, so we know what we're capable of.

The policy makers are not serious over the issue of improving the overall strength of the capital market.

Brian Bell

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

Brian K. Vaughan

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

Denis Napthine

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

John C. Calhoun

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

John C. Calhoun

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

William Graham Sumner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

Erno Rubik

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Erin O'Connor

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

I think a lot of times, especially for certain stories, photographers travel together for safety reasons, and they also invariably cross paths. But you could have 10 photographers shooting together in the same spot but capturing different images.

Nigel Barker

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

We are not out there as a vacuum cleaner, ... We don't have that capability and we don't want that capability.

Brunello Cucinelli

In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

Nelson Mandela

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

When a sheriff has an inmate who's escaped and committed capital murder ... you should have that guy in lock down 24/7.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

Vint Cerf

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.