Famous Quotes & Sayings

L.A. Reid

Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.

Jess Glynne

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Mike Brookhart

When Grant decides to play and really go after it, he can do anything. He can score, he can rebound and he can do a lot of little things that help us win.

Lauren Bacall

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Steve Breen

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

David Beckham

We had a meeting with the manager but that happens all the time - if the manager decides he wants a meeting with players to discuss formations or ways of playing then we'll have a meeting,

Bill Stoneman

We have not heard anything. But whatever he decides to do, we will support the decision.

E. O. Wilson

The problem is you get hit pretty good every time they (local government) decides to expand facilities. I'd rather see some other method used than just property taxes.

E. Hicks

We're just waiting. We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball. We hope he decides to play. Once he's made the decision, he's a player we would have great interest in.

Michael Holland

We have a global decrease in interest rates and a global decrease in inflation.

Michel Gaudin

We're seeing a strong decrease in hostile acts.

Semyon Vainshtok

We have saturated Europe with oil. And as any economics handbook will tell you, excessive supply makes prices fall. But we do not have the means to decrease supply: all our (oil) exports are directed at Europe.

Roy Cooper

We're getting reports about prices going down, ... But we'd like to see them decrease as dramatically as they increased.

Suzanna Zick

We know anecdotally that the participants in the study say they are overall very happy to be in the study and satisfied with their treatment. We don't know what that means yet. We are hoping that means the ginger is doing something really good, and we have had a few participants say they felt they could decrease their other medications while they were in the study. Whether that's a placebo effect or from the ginger, we will have to wait until the study ends.

Jo Anne

The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a good day for us.

Sue Johnson

We've seen a nine percent decrease in pediatric patients that are uninsured or underinsured in the emergency department.

Suzanna Zick

We have had a few participants say that they felt they could decrease their other medications while they were in the study.

Denis Medeiros

Reduce portion sizes. Decrease foods laden with sugar, white flour and fat.

Nicola Formichetti

When I first moved to London for university, I was already a big fan of Diesel because, in the nineties, Diesel was, like, the brand. The stores were the place to go. It wasn't workwear like Levi's or G-Star.

Arthur Sullivan

With this car, it's a diesel and probably gives off emissions. I'm not sure if it would pass or not.

Virginia Kennedy

In fact, I think the diesel is more expensive right now.

Bill Grant

This has doubled or even tripled in the last year and a half, ... The diesel price has tripled so the tax has tripled.

Kevin Rogers

Our fertilizer products come from natural gas, so our price of nitrogen fertilizer has gone through the roof in the last six months. And diesel has completely skyrocketed,

Christine Gregoire

Literally, today a gallon of diesel is costing our farmers more than they are getting in return for a bushel of wheat,

Roger Dearing

We don't expect diesel to come down in the next 24 to 36 months.

Jonathan Cogan

We haven't seen the same sort of safety valve for diesel as for gas.

Edward Deak

You'll find that diesel fuel is on the rise, too. So prices on food, dry goods and general merchandise at retailers will go up because it's more expensive to get it here.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

Edward Carpenter

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edmund White

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Caleb Cushing

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

Naomi Martin

We played well in the first half and then let up in the second half. We need to learn how to play an entire game. Early in the season we try to play the game well and limit our mistakes.

Micah Marsh

We played well in spurts, but our intensity wasn't what it should be. Next week, we can't have that or we're going to have an early exit.

Michael McNamara

The overall number did perk up at the end of the month. Higher gasoline prices did help a bit.

Gregg Laskoski

We know that they (motorists) are getting tired of hearing the rationalizations for the way gasoline prices are going higher.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Michael McNamara

If you take gasoline out, it's still a good number.

Bill White

If you work in a gasoline station, if you work in a convenience store, if you work in a grocery store, you need to show up to work,

Mark Pervan

The increase in gasoline supplies could partly be just the release of U.S. strategic reserves being accounted for now.

Robert Sinclair

There is a lot of gasoline infrastructure in New Jersey.

Larry Wachtel

Low-end consumers, the ones that spend every penny of their paycheck, are really hurting with these gasoline prices.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Larry Wilcox

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

Steve Dunn

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Rory Robertson

There is a very gradual improvement, but the rate of improvement is painfully slow.

John Entwistle

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

John Russell

We haven't been able to stretch him out, so we're trying to gradually increase him.

Adam Mesurier

What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Don Blatchford

We are going to withhold the portion of the rent increase that we feel is unfair and unreasonable.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Lee Raymond

to minimize the increase in price while at the same time recognizing if we kept the price too low we would quickly run out (of fuel) at the service stations.

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Travis Leggett

When a tree is down and power is off, whether it's late at night and it's raining, it doesn't matter. You do it.

Don Herold

When a speaker says, "Well, to make a long story short," it's too late

Najib Mikati

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Reed Johnson

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Sabrina Carpenter

My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Greg Erwin

We have people in place that have done the Olympic Trials before, have done big meets before,

Kylie McCuen

That's what a lot of these meets are, just getting back in the swing of things and seeing what we need to work on." ()

John Bolton

We don't think it meets the standards set by the secretary general.

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Ray White

I thought the team ran fantastic. We had had two meets canceled, so I was worried about how we might do. But for the first meet, we ran pretty well. We had a lot of outstanding performances.

Tom Rathbun

What we want is to find a more permanent arrangement, a long-term reauthorization (of the fund) that meets the needs of a state with our mining history.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Perry Florio

We got production from all of our lines.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Vanessa Williams

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Banksy

Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

Petrarch

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

Greg Skomal

Using tags, we know where they are in the summer and fall, but not in the winter.

William Shakespeare

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

William Shakespeare

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

William Shakespeare

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.