Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivek Wadhwa

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Vivienne Westwood

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.

will.i.am

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

Emma Roberts

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

William K. Sessions

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

David A. Bednar

Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.

Charles Koch

Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.

Lysander Spooner

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

Christy Martin

We're kind of traveling gypsy musicians. We stopped paying rent in 1998. We love touring and we love being on the road, and to do what we're doing it would be impractical to have a home anywhere. So, we had a big garage sale, sold everything but the essentials and that allows us to do about 200 shows a year in 45 states and Ireland.

Ray Comfort

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Richard Engel

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

Kenny MacAskill

Transparency is essential ... what we need now is the implementation of the commission's recommendations but they need to be matched by resources from the Executive.

Ludwig von Mises

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

Carly Fiorina

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

Cary Fukunaga

I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.

Duke of Wellington

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Karen Alexander

We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really hard and pretty well right through to the end of the game.

Sue Vories

We played a lot of the game on our end of the field. That has a lot to do with our inexperience, but we're getting better.

Ron Allen

We played a lot better in the field. And all five pitchers we used threw well.

Jim Foster

We practice very intense and when it's game time the players go out on the field and do their job. The hardest we work is when we practice.

Vanessa Brown

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

Eric Byrnes

When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, ... You get out there and it's just baseball.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Gore Vidal

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Edmund Spenser

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason

Damien Rice

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Vonda Shepard

My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected.

Nicole Appleton

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Sarah Jessica Parker

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

Blake Lively

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Patricia Marx

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Theodore White

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Alan Lakein

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Dean Ornish

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

Stephen Hawking

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

Ray Nagin

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

Regina King

I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.

Romola Garai

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Dean Smith

We don't want to go on strike. Everybody's unified on it.

Carly Fiorina

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others