Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Sharon Salzberg

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Paul Valery

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Benjamin Tucker

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

John Hughes

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Travie McCoy

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

Vince McMahon

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

Nolan Bushnell

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Brian Mulroney

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

John Eldredge

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Anna Lindh

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Amish Tripathi

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

Linda Ronstadt

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

Louis Navellier

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

James P. Hoffa

Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

Keith Stanfield

They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.

Hugo Chavez

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

Charles Dudley Warner

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Francois Hollande

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.

David Oyelowo

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Tim Bishop

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red.

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Charles Babbage

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Graeme Murphy

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

Miguel

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

Ben E. King

The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.

Tim Berners-Lee

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Robert Winston

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Mark Hyman

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

Andrew Jackson

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

David Chase

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

Donna Brazile

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

Leonardo DiCaprio

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Charlie Trotter

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

Krist Novoselic

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording.

Akshay Kumar

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!

Christa McAuliffe

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

Keith Miller

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

Lord Acton

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.