Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilbur Smith

I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over the pass and down to the sea, on the sunshine coast. It's where I love to escape to with my wife for a weekend every now and again.

Marc Andreessen

The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.

Nolan North

Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.

Nick Hanauer

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

Laura Bailey

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

We didn't play with any enthusiasm or energy. We don't have it every night. That comes from heart and a passion for what you're doing. We don't have enough of that right now. We're capable of it, but we're not there right now.

We didn't play they way we were capable of, and we took a step backwards.

We are going to use our capital to invest in our own development of digital businesses,

Noam Chomsky

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

'Toybox' is that kind of game that will stretch your mental capacity by doing very simple things like solving an easy puzzle of shooting aliens. You'll just need to do everything at the same time to make it through alive. Just to make things tricky, the tasks change every week so you can't get used to any set.

We had a ton of chances. We didn't capitalize on them.

Jon Gruden

You look at the salary cap spreadsheets that you're handed, yeah, you know the inevitable is going to happen. When you're $20 million to $30 million over, whatever it is, you've got to get under the cap.

Carlos Slim

You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

Ken Thompson

Today's announcement reflects our board's confidence in Wachovia's performance and prospects for consistently growing earnings while maintaining a strong capital position.

Scott Carpenter

To be able to promote your son to captain what an honor. I'm so proud of you, ... The sky's the limit. Before we promote you to captain, I want one more thing from you: I want your final salute as a lieutenant.

In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

Orlando Bloom

If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Greil Marcus

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'

Geoff Johns

I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.

Suze Orman

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.

Sue Monk Kidd

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

William Kidd

My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.

Ashley Wagner

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

A. S. Byatt

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

Bill Callahan

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

Beth Brooke

Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.

Ben Folds

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

We'd like to see less of that tax being used for operational purposes and more of it going to capital projects. So with that thought in mind, that's kind of been where we've guided this year's proposed budget.

We would have to go through a process of assessing what he is capable of doing physically.

We were a little flat coming out of the county tournament. We didn't wrestle to our capability throughout the lineup.

We were about to reach capacity with our current system.

We definitely wanted to get a win for him and cap his night off. Unfortunately, we couldn't do that.