Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivek Wadhwa

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Wynton Marsalis

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

Etel Adnan

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

Jamie Varley

The police officers became friendly after they saw that we were a band.

Lee Benson

The police department's interest in Emmanuel, or lack thereof, became an issue for several reasons.

Michael Russell

The pay raise has already become an issue and caused challengers to emerge. This poses an issue for many of the incumbents and unfortunately became a larger issue than many anticipated.

Bruce Feiler

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Terry Thornton

The policy now is that an offender's race will not be used as a sole determining factor in housing. Our primary goal is to ensure that racial integration is completed in a manner that maximizes institutional security.

Rebel Wilson

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge' while studying, which was very difficult, but I'm proud I completed my degree.

Chuck Wright

We did somewhat of a search. We haven't completed it yet. It was vague, that was the problem,

Nick Hardwick

We still expect our investigation into the shooting to be completed by the end of December.

Issa Hayatou

We are convinced that the stadiums will be completed on time and of good quality.

Wolfgang Ketterle

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

Tasneem Aslam

The ratification process is underway. It is just that it was not completed yesterday (the deadline). We hope to do it very soon.

Pico Iyer

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

Bob Brewer

We're not that far apart. Our goal is to get this completed prior to the winter holiday break.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

William Wirt

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Donatella Versace

I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

Dennis Ross

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Comte de Lautreamont

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Peyton Manning

I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Peter Jackson

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

Kabir Bedi

Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

Willie Robertson

Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Steve Sullivan

We had a lot of positives this year, but this is no longer acceptable.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Agnes Martin

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

Ellsworth Kelly

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have always been a pencil.

Bruce Arena

Nothing is set in stone. But for the most part, I think we have a nucleus of 14, 15 16 players who we could pencil in now. ... We'll just have to wait and see.

Shakira

I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.

Chris McGovern

Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.

David Hewson

Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.

Rhonda Allen

You never see a resident waiting for an escort.

Sue Halpern

The resident kvetch of 60 Minutes. an unabashed fogy.