Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Irene Dunne

The picture postcard people printed a card of our house and the address years ago for the tourists but they made a mistake and took the next house.

Walter Jamieson

The overall work-force development strategy must address all of these concerns and more if the industry is going to be in a position to provide the kind of quality service and attention that our visitors will demand.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

Charles Koch

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

Cliff Stearns

Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans.

Douglas Conant

On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.

Dick Armey

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

Suzy Menkes

My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.

Bill Cosby

One of the beauties of watching our show is that, really and truly, it remains fresh because you're dealing with human beings and their behavior,

Levon Kendall

One of the beauties of this team is we have so many guys who can score. Tonight was just really a matter of everyone stepping up and helping each other out. That's one reason why we're so tough too beat.

Paul Reddick

One of the beauties of mobile is it allows you to place-shift.

John Lyons

One of its beauties is it is incredibly flexible. We're going to have people in the system who will use it twice a year, and we're going to have people who are going to use it five days a week. ... It really opens it up to the once-in-a-while trip. And that reduces a lot of miles.

Ingrid Bergman

I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Loretta Young. They were incredibly glamorous. I was always the girl next door.

Jerome Charyn

We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

Joseph Joubert

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work

Kelly Stevens

There are opportunities for people to jump in, if they like, and be painted. And that's one of the beauties about art: You can be involved (and) you can participate.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Nikola Tesla

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Vonda Shepard

I seem to be drawn to the really romantic songs.

Freddy Rodriguez

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Lauren Myracle

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

Mike Nichols

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

Nancy Horan

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

Lisa Tuttle

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Pamela Stephenson

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

Pericles

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Lao Tzu

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Will Ferrell

If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it's tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day - it's a great conditioner for the hair, skin.

Scott Burns

When you remove a fish that small, you are removing the goose that lays the golden egg.

Bob Williams

We're down to a very small number of fish, 88 fish in the hole.

Richard Young

We need to keep fishing here as much as possible. But we must diversify, look at other activities. Like welcoming recreation and the tourist industry into this harbor.

Greg Policky

We could not make good fisheries by throwing rocks in it or sticking a regulation on it. The fish population is the ultimate indicator of how well we're doing.

Mary Ford

Under the guise of fact-finding, they're going fishing in the Caribbean.

James Kelley

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

Richard Bernstein

There is a thin line between a liquidity-driven market that anticipates improving fundamentals and a bubble,

Daniel Grabauskas

We need to tighten up our procedures because there are a number of people out there scamming the system. But the first priority is improving performance. We'd love to be in a situation where we don't have to pay any refunds.

Jean Turner

We all need good, vital, improving schools; we're all in this together.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Mohamed ElBaradei

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Tim Johnson

Those in Lucedale who want to take on local responsibility just didn't know the process for organization around long-term recovery,

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Linda McCoy

If you want your money to be used locally, you have to earmark it for local use.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Kelly Jones

We're not sure what the (staff) numbers would be.

Bob Groves

We've had hundreds of people waiting at stations but we just don't have enough room. We're doing everything we can ... but the numbers are just quite heavy.

Robert Kiyosaki

Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth?

Jeff Edwards

Use the numbers we have and let the principals work it out.

William Shakespeare

I am ill at these numbers.

Jon Purnell

The problem is getting sufficient numbers of students in the program.

Patrick Moynihan

We have a system that's been in place for 70 years. It works, ... but get the numbers right.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Ludwig von Mises

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Paula Beall

We were just enthralled by the quality of the space that we could see through the storefront windows,

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Charles McClelland

The quality of play is much improved." ()

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Gil Kane

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

Ray Rivera

We are day by day. We have no water running!

Rich Halberg

When the water recedes, you can see any buckling and contraction that wouldn't be there when it's wet.

Walter Benjamin

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

English Proverbs

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Dear Abbey

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

William Shakespeare

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

William Shakespeare

A little water clears us of this deed.

William Shakespeare

How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.