Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooks Robinson

I talked to my dad about doing commercials for Flawless. I worked up a couple treatments and presented him with an overall concept of what it would look like.

I think it (a steak house) is a restaurant concept that is not as well represented in the area.

We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.

Dave Pirner

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

John Spencer

Having been involved with the space tourism movement and industry since the beginning?in the early 1980s?I have seen the evolution of a concept from start to entering into a phase where several very smart billionaires are investing millions of their own dollars into it and the government and media takes it seriously. Space enterprise and tourism is real and growing.

Bill Guerin

We've given (the owners) well-thought-out proposals and ( Gary Bettman is) not willing to negotiate. What we've gotten back is just ridiculous. We presented a proposal with hundreds of pages of fine details. What we got back is six concepts and the longest one may have been 230 words and some were 30 words. You know what that is? That's no effort. (Bettman) is not being serious.

If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society.

It has been my experience that what perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concepts of object-oriented programming

in a link between a multi-ethnic concept and economic prosperity.

Joshua Bell

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.

Malin Akerman

I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

Danny Meyer

I learned that you shouldn't take your most esoteric concept and fit it into the largest space with the highest fixed costs. It puts too much pressure on the restaurant to hit grand slams every day when there just aren't enough people who want to watch that sport.

The Internet as a tool means all the leading retailers are going to be on the Internet in the next couple of years. The pure selling concept over the Internet has proven not to work and the pure plays are gong to be surpassed by traditional retailers.

The Fed has identified consumer confidence as the most important concept right now. They are extremely worried that the problems in the stock market and the weakness in the manufacturing sector will lead to pessimism and lower spending.

Michael Williams

The cool thing about the concept is it's a way to discover up-and-coming designers without having to travel around the world.

Donald Trump

The concept was no good. You had so many things going wrong. Theresa, you're fired.

Emilie Ravin

The concept of the show, there's nothing else like it on the air,

David Wilson

The concept of the plan is not really changing.

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

The concept of longevity could very likely be the most dangerous subject that financial planners and individuals project,

The concept of going on a world tour with only one promoter was a new one for me, but one that was extremely economically advantageous,

The concept of getting up another negotiation process for caps, targets and timetables is a terrible waste of time,

Neill Blomkamp

The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding my foot in and is beginning to participate in Hollywood and making films. So the idea of any kind of fandom or people that are waiting for something that I may release is very distant in my mind.

The concept of a retail-based strip has great mass appeal, because everyone can relate to it, either as a former or current retail worker or shopper.

The concept is we should come out whole.

The concept is the same. It's to keep the engine in the 'sweet spot,' where it's most efficient. They're just doing it in different methods. They're utilizing different technologies to do that.

Bernie Williams

The concept is like a dream for me. However, the timing of the tournament is questionable at best.

The concept is just to give our elected officials the right to use their judgment.

The concept is good. I don't know if the current administration would know how to enforce it. But it's not a waste of taxpayers' money if it gets us to recognize the problem and find a solution.

The concept is fine. We are concerned about it being a neutral statute. If you're going to have a restriction on speech, it has to be content neutral. It has to be reasonable. It can't be too broad. The main concern is that it specifically only protects or creates a zone around funerals involving the military.

The conception of the idea is there, but the devil is going to be in the details.

Jerry Brown

The concept in any of the HUD receiverships is that they're not permanently assigned, but they're there on a temporary basis.

Elijah Wood

The idea of developing something from the ground up and ultimately seeing it through to production and finish it as a film is a really exciting concept and, I imagine, very gratifying.