Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian MacKaye

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Gerry Harvey

Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.

Chris Pine

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.

LZ Granderson

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

Fergie

For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.

Fabiola Gianotti

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

Gautam Adani

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

We knew we didn't wrestle well the first time we saw them. The kids had wanted High Point to win (against Central Regional in the semifinals). They got them and they wrestled like they wanted it.

Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County,

Mitch Miller

We're stopping 97 per cent of the fires.

John Baker

We're trying to get them centered and focused,

Blake Shelton

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

Ellen Burstyn

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

The only serious issue for an economy as developed as the Irish economy is how to stay ahead. The dynamics of that debate have to centre on the 'race to the top'.

The real question is who is the independent prosecutor who is liberated to pursue these cases. There is no central prosecution office run by commanders. So you don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Those who want Russia to continue to grow in IT should work with Russian companies, with our science centers and with our software companies, ... Now is the time to go to Russia with investment.

UCLA's School of Public Health is now poised to house one of the leading reproductive health and population centers in the United States. Thanks to the commitment and vision of the Bixby Foundation, we are able to develop and enhance programs that enrich our students' training and make a difference in people's lives.

UC had not narrowed it down to the Central Valley yet, and guys from Redding to Chula Vista were promoting their cities. I remember Sonny Bono promoting Palm Springs.

Michael Chapman

UC Davis has the only Level 1 trauma center in inland Northern California, and our gift helps preserve this invaluable resource for the community,

We don't own 100 per cent of the IP in Solaris. This is a different platform. We own 100 per cent of the IP that goes into it. We can faithfully deliver it into the free marketplace under a license that promotes freedom and choice.

We can't speak for each of the 170,000 gasoline stations nationwide, ... But it's clear that gasoline prices are up 29 cents a gallon because crude oil prices are up about 29 cents a gallon during the same period.

We completed a 4 to 5 per cent sale to the State Welfare Fund on Wednesday. The IPO scheme is going smoothly in accordance with our original plan.

We have been requesting the Centre for long to hold talks with the ULFA. Since the outfit has now showed its interest for dialogue, we are hopeful,

We have found that a significant number of families have someone take a class to get the lower rate. We look for legitimate student families, which the center is intended to serve.

We put together the Parent Information Center four years ago with the thoughts of moving all student registration there. So this is long awaited.

We put out packets to go to the centers where the people would be. They'll have information in there with maps and little pocket resumes, pencils, paper, you know those kinds of things.

We put ourselves in this position. It was a credit to our guys to get into the tournament and a credit to how well we played at times this year, but Central was a tough draw.

Tom Ridge

When our incident management team and our coordination center was notified (of the explosion), within in a very short period of time ... we knew what was going on at the local (and) state level, ... We engaged immediately in conversations with the Coast Guard, the EPA, the Health and Human Services.

Bruce Williams

We work with zoos and other wildlife centers in cooperative programs.

Paul Mitchell

We found these lesions are present in 10 per cent of people over 50, ... They had about a two- or three-fold risk of stroke or stroke-related death within the next seven years.