Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Haywood

We actually added an extra electric guitar to beef up 'Need You Now', but we haven't changed any of this 'Own The Night' record at all for the international releases.

David Roberts

When I got to McAfee, the channel was narrow, but with 2,000 new partners added in the past year, what will be critical in 2006 will be setting up the right care and feeding strategy for them.

Jeremy Foley

When the NCAA added the 12th game, we wanted to look for years where there was a 14-week window to the season to give us flexibility in picking a date for this series. The 2008 and 2013 calendar years allow us to do just that. In every other year, there are just 13 weeks to play 12 games, giving you less flexibility to schedule games and opponents.

Colin Falls

We needed a change. It added pressure on us, but we stepped up to it. You'll see them Tuesday.

Kevin Mitnick

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

Roger Clemens

We're looking at that game square in our eyes right now. That's the most important thing we've got going. So, you know, you didn't want any extra added pressure on Brandon.

Rob Manuel

Added to the rooster of courses, 'Tiger Woods 10' adds in seven new courses from the pristine Bethpage Black, home of this year's U.S. Open, to the legendary Pinehurst. The Wii Weather Channel will even adjust the forecast to match the fairway because sometimes even the pros have to play in the rain.

S. Jay Olshansky

In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

S. Jay Olshansky

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

Craig Roberts

We actually had a lot of requests to bring them back. Rick K. does just about everything as far as all types of music. I call him a cruise ship entertainer. It's a high-energy type of show. ... New Odyssey, they play like 30 different instruments among the three of them. They're a very talented group.

Craig Roberts

We actually had a lot of requests to bring them back, ... Rick K. does just about everything as far as all types of music. I call him a cruise ship entertainer. It's a high-energy type of show. ... New Odyssey, they play like 30 different instruments among the three of them. They're a very talented group.

Khil Raj Regmi

Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups.

Kathleen Battle

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

Christian End

When you're among 60,000 of your closest friends, your accountability diminishes. It's very different than if you're at a bar with 10 people.

Aaron Schock

When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.

Donald Judd

You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

Octavio Paz

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

Tom Rachman

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

David Icke

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

Bill Hybels

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Bill Hicks

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

Steven Fortuna

We had been looking for 13 percent unit growth and 8 percent average unit price expansion owing to iBook and higher-priced iMacs, ... The company delivered 12 percent unit growth and only 3.5 percent average unit price expansion.

Chris Farley

People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Pat Flaherty

We're giving up 40 (points) a game, and I know they average more than that. If we keep them at 50, we'll have a good chance, but we have to control the tempo of the game because they're bigger than us, and if we limit the number of easy baskets, we'll have a good chance.

Stephen Brobeck

We recommend that consumers shift their funds from traditional savings to CDs and from banks to credit unions. If everyone did so they would earn about $40 billion more in interest annually. That's an average of about $400 per household.

David Walliams

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

David Walliams

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

David Rockefeller

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Riesman

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

David Riesman

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

David Henry Hwang

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick

Bill Wilson

But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.

John Sicher

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

Marcus Aurelius

It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next morning

Friedrich Muller

He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

Troian Bellisario

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

David Duval

Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Aimee Mullins

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Billie Jean King

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

Chris Evert

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Jamie Moyer

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

Jasmine Tookes

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Jasmine Guinness

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Alan Sugar

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

Alan Sugar

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Alan Sugar

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

Bill Joy

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Diana Wynne Jones

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Derrick Rose

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

Charles Lamb

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.