Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Wendy Kopp

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Vivek Wadhwa

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Ben Carson

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Brent Scowcroft

The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.

Tom Lynch

The overall mission of Fuel Advantage is to bring technology innovators and government incentive programs together in one place, so fleet operators will finally know where to go and who to talk to about saving money on their fuel costs.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Big Sean

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Marc Chandler

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

Rob Bennett

The PC makers are going to have to make their own decision how they're going to handle this based on their own business needs. It's not something that Microsoft can dictate.

Harry Forbes

The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based on that philosophy.

Virginia Postrel

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.

Chris Carter

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

Steve Burke

You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.

Larry the Cable Guy

The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'

Andrew Fegyveresi

We are currently in discussions with all cable and satellite providers in our footprint.

Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Dennis Rodman

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

Gigi Sohn

We are disappointed but not surprised that the committee voted to turn over the future of the Internet to the telephone and cable industry. Neither of those two sectors contributed to the creative development of the Internet, and neither is known for innovation. They are known for their desire to control what goes over their networks.

Craig Moffett

There are cleaner ways to invest in cable than Cablevision.

Carlos Ghosn

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

Tony Fernandes

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Geoffrey Moore

When I go meet with a company that's No. 1--a Microsoft or Cisco or SAP--one of the things I hear a lot is how mean it is out there. Being No. 1 these days means you become the natural target.

Lars Larsen

Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

Larry Dixon

Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.

Kathryn Minshew

When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.

John Davidson

We had a pretty strong run up in anticipation of the earnings season. But because of that run, if any company reports declining results or results that are less than what was expected, you're going to see a strong reaction.

Larry Langford

We had a pregnant woman complaining of shortness of breath, and another woman who was asthmatic, who were also transported to Little Company of Mary. And there were several other people who were treated on the scene but not transported, about a half dozen people.

Chris Snyder

We are going to work with the company to help displaced workers find other jobs.

Stephanie Allain

Growing up, I learned that if you are passionate about something, that you can move mountains. Passion is more precious than gold, and it's a currency that everyone craves. It's something that's hard to fake, and when it's real, everyone wants to be on that train. It's about giving people something that they can believe.

Liz Williams

Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

Laurence Godfrey

We get a wide range of responses (to our phone inquiries and visits). Some people are surprised there is a fee to pay. Music is a part of the fabric of society and people forget that it is a currency - the finished product of someone's creativity. Others understand that this (music creation) is a business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

Masaki Fukui

Worse-than-expected trade-deficit figures could be fertile ground for dollar selling. Amid the already dollar-bearish sentiment, the U.S. currency has a downside risk.

Tom Ferguson

We're making the currency safer, smarter and more secure,

Tsuyoshi Segawa

Investors are anxiously awaiting tomorrow as the data could increase volatility in the currency and other markets.

James Awad

Investors will be looking for the implications (of Brazil) on currency markets.

Howard Penney

The impact of currency was somewhat larger than they had been talking about.

Will Rothhaar

What's the fun in approaching something closed-minded? I'm very specific; if dialogue is too on-the-nose, or there's a lot of telling and not showing, I'll talk to my manager and let them know the problems I have with it. But, I always go in with fresh eyes. The first pass just needs to be about figuring out little things here and there.

Bruce Feiler

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bill Hader

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

Katrina Kaif

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

Nancy Kress

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

Bre Pettis

I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

Ben Shapiro

When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.

Andrea Barrett

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Jalal Talabani

We still hope that by bilateral dialogue we see that we can solve this problem,

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Charles Sturt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Esai Morales

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Gary Pruitt

We plan to maintain, sustain and further the journalism at these newspapers.

Tracy Morgan

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Tamsin Greig

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Nina Garcia

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

Tony Juniper

We are going to war with the nuclear industry -- but with a positive not a negative campaign.

will.i.am

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

will.i.am

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Corey Johnson

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Matt Anderson

We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.

Stephen Bell

We played a little better today, but still not as well as we can. We were able to move up one spot today and still have a shot to win with a solid round on Wednesday.

Manuel Hernandez

We plan on doing whatever we need to do to move forward. But it's been a struggle.

Mary Tyler Moore

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Beverly Cleary

In 50 years, the world has changed, especially for kids, but kids' needs haven't changed. They still need to feel safe, be close to their families, like their teachers, and have friends to play with.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Ferran Adria

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Alan Cohen

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Alan Cohen

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Agnes Obel

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Max Frisch

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Bud Selig

We're very close. Well before the season's over, we should be done. I'm very pleased with that -- a wonderful end to a tough story. This was a situation fraught with a lot of potential problems. It's going to come to an end; we're going to come out of the ownership business. The commissioner will be delighted.

Michael Spears

It's a lot like a church, ... Everyone really takes ownership for the children's education.

Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Kristy Curry

We had a point to prove. We made a statement. We were tired of overtimes. We had something to say and we said it.

Jeff Gundy

When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Paul Guen

We are having discussions but we have not yet reached the point where we sign a contract.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Tony Catanzaro

We actually had more points then they did in the second half, but we were terrible in the first.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Dick Cheney

My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. With respect to how that's affected or regulated by the State, those are State decisions. Different States are likely to make different decisions based upon their own wishes and desire of the people of the State, and that's perfectly acceptable.

Ludwig von Mises

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Charlotte Bronte

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Charles Spurgeon

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Alan Parker

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Alan Perlis

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.