Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

Rob Puterio

The overall quality is down, but the competition is up.

Chuck Grassley

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Charles Koch

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

Carrie Fisher

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Eric Fellner

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Eric Shanteau

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

Jennifer Grubb

We play each other for a reason. We need this kind of competition to get ready for district. They need to get ready for the playoffs.

Sunil Mittal

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Jason Floetke

We played well at times. We did a good job of staying in the game. We stayed within our game plan and got some easy shots.

Theresa Adams

We played as hard as we could. We just missed too many easy shots and free throws.

Ed Smith

We played a pretty perfect game that night. I don't think it will be easy by any means. But the girls will be excited and ready to go on Saturday.

Larry Hogan

We probably missed five or six opportunities to score. That's two points we could have put on the board. We missed too many easy shots.

Trent Reznor

It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

Alan Cohen

How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?

Mike Hargrove

When you're struggling like we were, it's easy to start pressing. Our guys didn't do that. We started taking more pitches and getting into better counts.

Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Nina Easton

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

Paul Kagame

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

Phaedrus

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

Trevor Moore

If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching.

Jen Lancaster

When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.

Vonda Shepard

I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.

Cassidy Gifford

When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.

Laurie Holden

I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. Personally, I don't like to be kept up at night.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Cheryl Lynn

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

John Danforth

We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Camille Paglia

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Robert Gallery

You know, one or two snaps at tight end wouldn't be bad, ... but I'm not pushing that.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Bernard Davis

We pretty much know they're going to run the ball,

Ramon Serna

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

Vivica A. Fox

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Leonard Lauder

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

Eric Schmidt

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Susan Griffin

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Sylvia Hatchell

We know that we can't let down in any way, shape or form. You've got that big zero on you.

Patrick Fitzgerald

whether I thought Mr. Libby had tried to shape my testimony.

William Shakespeare

so full of shapes is fancy

Kevin Browne

We were a lot better tonight. We were in a lot better shape than they were. They were tiring. We were able to take it to them.

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Blanka Vlasic

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

Edith Wharton

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Troy McMahan

We were going to go this October, but my wife got pregnant.

Bill Harris

We didn't see it happen, but my wife did see a young man... before this happened... but he was on my property.

William Shakespeare

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

Baz Luhrmann

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Alan Titchmarsh

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

Alan Jackson

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

Akshay Kumar

Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

Dave Barry

You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is - and care more than anybody else in the world - which he does, I don't doubt that for a minute. And you can care so much that you're willing to be dishonest - you can tell people one thing but do another because you really know it's for their own good. And you'll still screw it all up. Because the whole premise of what you're doing is wrong!

Alan Cohen

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

Hilary Mantel

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Dick Cheney

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

Dick Cheney

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

Walter Benjamin

We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

English Proverbs

What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

English Proverbs

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

Paul Buck

The only disappointing thing this year has been our numbers,