Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

We re-use 85 to 90 percent of it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Maurice Maeterlinck

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Peter Jackson

Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

You can get 170 percent more Terminal Services users on a single server with Windows 2003 Server x64 than you can with 32-bit Windows.

You'll save between $8,000 and $9,000 per year not having a car.

Andrew Cuomo

You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.

Helen McCrory

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

Philippe Petit

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Takuma Sato

I think it will be tough at the beginning, but I want to perform better step by step.

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I think we try to take that many shots sometimes.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Bede Griffiths

Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Adam Smith

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn't get funding.

John Calipari

We had to perform for two months. We had no room for error.

Hamilton Jordan

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

William Shakespeare

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

We have audited 71 percent of the property on public lands. We look at the value of that production at the lease.

Peter Chapman

We have not had so many top performers before.

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

The quarter was pretty good. The 13.3 percent is impressive.