Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lindsay

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

Jeff Bezos

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

George Will

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

Jean de La Fontaine

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Jean de La Fontaine

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Gisele Bundchen

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

Halle Berry

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

Iggy Pop

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

Garth Stein

This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Gail Simmons

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Frederick Leboyer

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

Felicity Kendal

There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.

Ezra Pound

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

Francis Bacon

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

Jerry Rubin

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

Jerry Seinfeld

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

Jerry Seinfeld

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

Are your skills up-to-date? Is what you do in demand?

Ozzie Guillen

El Duque will skip one start. We'll see how he throws before we make a decision.

Every skier contributed to the scoring. We were very balanced.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.

Those who have the most skills are the coolest.

Meryl Streep

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

We're going to be kind of young in the skill positions,

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Shay Mitchell

Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else - from planes.

Nora Roberts

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement. De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

Nas

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

Miranda Hart

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

Ravi Zacharias

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.