Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Robin Li

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.

Wyclef Jean

When you're an artist, if you get a 10-year run-some are over 10 years - and you're successful, if you make over $20 million, then you gotta figure the money that you dished out and you spent on videos and studio time and all that stuff, you were just better off investing $4 or $5 million.

Scott McKenzie

When I got the call, first thing I did was, I thanked God, ... I figured that if God leads you to it, God will lead you through it.

Marine Pace

When the Marines do the math, they figure they can get the most out of Pfc. Pace in six- or seven-month deployments inside a normal four-year commitment.

Twyla Tharp

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Robert Downey

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

Mark Bradford

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

Jamar Nesbit

Lucky enough, I kind of figured if it did flood, I was going to be gone at least a week,

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Dee Hock

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Al Gore

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power...

Sun Microsystems

We're going after revenue growth and customers. We're all about sharing.

Jim Clement

We're looking at growth here. We're not saying, 'No, we don't want development. My guess is it's going to happen.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Bill Walsh

Writing headlines is a specialty-there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Stephen Hadley

I don't think you're going to see headline breakthroughs.

Gordon Strachan

If I say anything at all there will be headlines all over the place.

Matt Hammitt

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

Armando Iannucci

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

Naomi Fink

I think this is a dollar-supportive (report) ... regardless of the headline (non-farm payrolls) number.

David Remnick

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Benicio Del Toro

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

Derek Hough

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

Charles Kelley

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Carlo Ancelotti

Lyon is a very strong team with solid organization. We put them under a lot of pressure but they responded well. I wouldn't say we have the advantage, I think it is still 50-50.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Arne Jacobsen

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

Dick Kitts

We're just going to relax and take it easy. We all make changes.

Benjamin Britten

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Carnie Wilson

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

David Guetta

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

David Suchet

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

Lucy Fry

I'm a relaxed person, and I kind of just wear anything; I don't put that much time and care into planning an outfit.

Jane Campion

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

Carlos Slim

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Matt Groening

Sales man: You got time for lunch?Homer: Yeah..but I usually have 2 or 3.Salesman: You like thai?Homer: Yeah, ya like shirt?

David Vitter

Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

David Rockefeller

Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.

David Hoffman

I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

David Hockney

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

David Hume

But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.

David Hume

It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.

David Hume

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

David Hume

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

David Hume

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.