Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Allen

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Fred Allen

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

George Horace Lorimer

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

George Horace Lorimer

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Christine Lagarde

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

Christian Audigier

I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.

Isaac Pitman

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

Irving Azoff

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.

Irving Fisher

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

Martin Parr

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

By process of deduction, that's what it has to be,

He said all week that he was going to prove himself, and he did.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Franz Grillparzer

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Franz Grillparzer

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Frank Zappa

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Jim Carrey

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Jim Carrey

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Jerzy Kosinski

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Jeb Bush

I would say national security is work in progress.

Jeremy Lin

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.

Jennifer James

You are much more than the sum of what you produce.

Jennifer Granholm

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Jennifer Granholm

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

Jeff Bezos

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Jeff Bezos

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

George William Curtis

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

George Will

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.