Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gaughan

What they've done to Las Vegas Boulevard is a crime. North of the South Coast the Strip narrows from three lanes to two lanes to one, then back to three lanes. It's a real pain, especially in the late afternoon.

Roger Thompson

To open the second facility, she had to pay the last fine (from the Navy Boulevard location).

Brent Williams

The initial conception for Vista was to be exactly that kind of dramatic leap forward on a number of fronts. But we're 10 years further down the boulevard of history. The software is incredibly complicated to build.

Alice White

This will be in conjunction with the 300-percent tax increase demonstrations planned for the Sumter-U.S. 41 (intersection) and Sumter and Price Boulevard by the North Port Citizen's Alliance, ... It will make our demonstration look bigger.

Lily James

My dad lived on Sunset Boulevard for a couple of years as a waiter, and he said he'd do a different character every time somebody sat down, just to get some practice.

Mary Richardson

When the students are gone for the summer, you can zip through town. I have had to leave home at least 45 minutes to an hour early in order to get through Greenville Boulevard because traffic has picked up.

James O'Byrne

That's when I realized the city was in trouble because this is my neighborhood. Ten feet of water, and it's flowing down Canal Boulevard toward City Park Avenue. It was not standing water. It was a torrent of water.

Marilyn Monroe

You sit alone. It's night outside. Automobiles roll down Sunset Boulevard like an endless string of beetles. Their rubber tires make a purring high-class noise. You're hungry, and you say, 'It's not good for my waistline to eat.' There's nothing finer than a washboard belly.

Viola Grant

And now that park is named for him, and my boulevard takes you to it. The road also leads to a ballpark.

Ellen Key

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

Justin Rose

When I first turned pro, I didn't really have any conception of how long it would take me,

Henry Eyring

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Noam Chomsky

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Jorge Borges

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Irwin Winkler

Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

Paolo Bacigalupi

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

Nas

'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

Kelly McCreary

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.

Dave Roberts

When you win a game in dramatic fashion, it kind of re-energizes you,

Shane Koyczan

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

James Steinberg

Those are dramatic cases. Those are tragic cases.

John Belohlavek

There is a tremendous problem in entering a race with little more than four months before the primary, unless you have dramatic statewide name recognition.

Chester Brown

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

Sass Jordan

You know how to milk a dramatic moment,

Holliday Grainger

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Buddy Rich

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Sevyn Streeter

I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.

Timur Bekmambetov

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

Devon Aoki

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

Charles Hazlewood

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Bobby Lamb

We plan to go for about two hours and look forward to getting a lot accomplished. We're already about halfway through spring practice, and we're pleased with the progress we've seen in several players.

Lindsay Williams

We prepared really well for this game. We have been looking forward to it all season. Last time they got a lot of points off offense rebounds and we worked on stopping that.

Troy Gentile

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Tatiana Navka

We did well for today and we're looking forward to the Olympics.

Maria Lefler

We had a nice win Saturday. We're looking forward to getting back into league.

Reggie Miller

When were on Lifetime working together, Cheryl gave me a lot of insight. It was then that I starting thinking that this was something I could do sometime down the line ... This is an opportunity I'm really looking forward to.

Paul Lancaster

When you're starting one senior and the rest underclassmen, it's something to look forward to. This year was a pleasant surprise.

David Noel

We still feel like this is a big-time game. We've been looking forward to this all season.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Charles Sturt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Esai Morales

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Gary Pruitt

We plan to maintain, sustain and further the journalism at these newspapers.

Tracy Morgan

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Tamsin Greig

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Chuck Palahniuk

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

Alice Walker

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Douglas Conant

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Sophia Amoruso

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

Sara Rue

What woman doesn't want to feel comfortable in a swimsuit? It's incredibly empowering.

Naomie Harris

I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

Steve Breen

Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

Susan Rice

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

Elsa Peretti

I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.

Karisma Kapoor

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

Nick Benedict

We have all these workers that are getting new skills and new training and we wanted to find a more personal way to promote that development. This is the initial step of what we've come up with.

Jarno Trulli

We can sell initially because of my image. But, if the wines aren't good, we won't sell any more. We've got to keep pushing quality to the limit.

Masafumi Nakayama

Investors initially guessed Japan's high-techs were quite independent of the U.S. market, but everyone's been quite worried since there have been so many profit warnings.

Lindy Ruff

The initial thought is, it shouldn't need surgery.

David Menlow

The initial talk was for $3.6 billion. Now we're talking a valuation of $2.8 billion.

Paul Hamerman

The initial scenarios are pretty thin, but I think more importantly they are providing a more comprehensive vision around what kind of applications could be offered under this partnership.

Michael Hendricks

The initial (reaction) was total paranoia in my circles.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

R. Robinson

We're going to see him take some leaps here.

Jack Welch

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Ashton Kutcher

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

J. J. Abrams

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

Dick Cook

This was a three-way leap of faith, frankly.

Guy Kawasaki

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

Elizabeth Bowen

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Remica Gray

It's a leap of faith. It seems like the right time in my life and the life of the community.

Julia Cameron

Leap, and the net appears.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Charles Dance

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Valerie June

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

John Connolly

We had a number of half-chances and we put ourselves in a position to do things, but the forwards were very disappointing,

Steny Hoyer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Mathieu Schneider

We didn't play like the number one seed. We put ourselves in a position where it could all be over early.

Aerin Lauder

I don't use a stylist. I know what I like, so I do it myself. I rip things out from fashion magazines. It's easy to order when the phone number is right on the page.

Jean Kerr

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Jeffrey Smith

There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can find a 17th-century tapestry for $3,000 to $4,000, and then there are half-million-dollar tapestries.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Ralph Johnson

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Fred Brooks

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.