Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Woodman

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Lesley Manville

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

Susan Mitchell

We've been able to devote more resources to him because of that, but he has not had a particularly privileged upbringing. I was a single parent for most of his life. It's not like he had tutors and parents who could sit around and help him.

It's just so difficult. I don't have the time to devote to it. You need to do it often to be good at it.

They do hear voices underneath the (pea-sized) gravel and they're trying to devote their efforts ... to extricate any persons who may still be alive.

Anthony Rapp

The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

There were volunteers who would go to that theater at, say, 9 o'clock in the morning and work upstairs on the third floor. They were so devoted that they would stay for the evening performance.

There were times where he couldn't devote as much time to practice and the team so we tried to step up as leaders and help out as much as we could.

This man was loyal and very devoted to his job.

Camille Paglia

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

As he has done before when he's been president, he will do an excellent job. He's been devoted to the port and to the things we're trying to accomplish.

Moran Atias

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.

These Star Trek people. I mean, you know, these are serious, devoted fans.

The very idea of having a film festival devoted to gay and lesbian themes as a human experience is, in and of itself, controversial.

Gerard Arpey

This is eating up time, money and energy we would like to devote to running our business,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

We used to have just one little shelf devoted to local history. We have tremendous new resources now. We have gotten some CDs, some microfilm, lots of reference materials.

Azim Premji

You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.

Bernie Sanders

Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans have been the beneficiaries.

Javier Solana

With him Kosovo has lost a historic leader who devoted his life to protecting and promoting the rights of the people of Kosovo.

Harold E. Varmus

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

We have a whole division devoted to filing these types of cases,

Those numbers illustrate the size of the problem. Had they been able to devote more officers, police feel they could have easily written many times the number of tickets.

Richard Leakey

Let us devote our minds - the one thing we have more of than other apes - and let's secure their future.

Let us all pledge today to devote time for establishing permanent peace. It is the need of today to establish permanent peace.

Scott Smith

make sure we have people devoted to the most valuable activity.

Julia Roberts

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.

I'm a human being; I have my limitations, ... I tried very hard to do this job 100 percent. I devoted myself to it.

I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.

He was a loving person and a devoted father. It's going to be hard raising them (our children) by myself.

He was devoted to the job he had to do. He never took any credit. You don't see people like that much.