Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marci Hamilton

The poll numbers are bad. Katrina is added to other failures. The moderate choices look better politically,

Lawrence Summers

The overarching global imperative to work to combat poverty ... must gain added urgency today when HIV-AIDS, conflict and other catastrophes are helping to reverse years of development gains in the poorest countries,

Sharon Treat

The overall trend for many years now is that drug prices go up substantially more than the rate of inflation, and that continues to be the case. Even though it's up less than in the previous quarter, it is still a substantial increase, and this is added on to increases from previous quarters.

David S. Goyer

Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.

Victoria Strauss

Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

Emma McLaughlin

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.

Cliff Stearns

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

David Suzuki

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Leaving the board will relieve me of formal duties and give me more flexibility, but I still expect to spend as much time as possible with the extended family of Ford people and will gladly help the company and the board in any way I can.

Harold Levy

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Clyde Tombaugh

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Ben Elliot

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Rebel Wilson

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Frank Quattrone

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Casey James

I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

David Rockefeller

Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Brad Pitt

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Charles Soule

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Foster Friess

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Cullen Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Damien Rice

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Adam Rapp

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

Brett Hull

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.

Kurt Busch

Yeah, a little slicker. I've got it working in the draft now.

Doug Berry

We're elated to get him with a sixth-round draft pick.

Michael Posner

We're drafting rules of the road in the new global economy. We've made progress, but there's still a long way to go.

David Macinnis Gill

A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Billy Donovan

We could have had potentially seven or eight first-round draft picks in our league right now.

Roger Goodell

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Evel Knievel

The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

Ben Affleck

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

Glenn McAninch

We operated our offense the way we wanted to and we way out-shot them.

Charlie Whitehurst

When you're playing a running offense like they have, you've got to score as much as you can and as often as you can. We scored early, and they didn't respond for a while.

Adam Kennedy

We didn't play very well. We played well in a couple, but not so well otherwise. Our offense just didn't really get going.

Shane Jones

We served real tough. It made it so they (Box Elder) couldn't get into their offense whole lot.

Dusty Baker

We need his offense and we need his defense, too. We don't usually play as well with him out of the lineup.

Kelly Kennedy

We'll tweak our offense to work with the personnel we have. And we have to work to get the right people shots.

Jerry York

We had trouble getting the puck out of our zone, and also trouble getting the puck into their zone. We never really got our offense set up.

Greg Brochetti

We had tried to scale back our offense and just keep things really simple, but we were so thin.

Drew Pearson

We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,

Matt McGorry

In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Richard Corso

We play more of a team offense. She's not going to know who's going to go off.

Kerry Loughran

We play a team game. That?s how we win championships.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Matt Gordon

We did what we had to do to win. They (Lincoln) are a tough team - they play real hard. I give them credit.

Jonathan Toews

When you see him up close, you see all the little things he does and as a teammate it is appreciated.

Dick Cheney

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Romeo Crennel

We still have a long way to go, ... We're going to be competitive with this team at some point. When that is, I don't know.

Mark Teixeira

We still feel like this is a team that can compete. Unfortunately, this was our start, and we've got to turn it around.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

James A. Michener

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you

John Owens

Unless you're going to under-developed part of the world, they're everywhere,

Chris Christiansen

Unless you're big enough, biometrics can become prohibitively expensive.

Brad Buckles

Unless you really know the product, you would not be able to tell.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Ron Zarrella

We could even wind up No. 2 in July.

E. F. Schumacher

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

E. F. Schumacher

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Dogen

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

William Shakespeare

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

William Shakespeare

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge