Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Smith

We're continuing to make upward progress, ... I think the improving economic conditions in Tulsa are helping, people are more confident to spend money on travel.

Dimitar Sasselov

Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.

Lee Kuan Yew

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

Kofi Annan

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Steve Desimone

This was a team effort. These were definitely some of the harshest conditions (we faced this year).

Dominic Bryant

The fact MEW did not fully correct the large Q2 increase supports our view that conditions in the housing market are improving and that this will, at some point, lead to increased household consumption.

Jim Thompson

We used to have to run somebody down there and do a manual test of the water. Now we can instantly see what the conditions are from the office while we're working on other things.

Mark Simmons

There are wildflowers coming. but they'll probably be the ones we normally see later in the spring. There may be other species waiting in the wings for which these conditions give it the opportunity to really do it's best. We don't know what those species are and we're excited about it.

Salim Altaf

No one can predict the weather. It is difficult in such weather conditions to prepare the exact type of pitch you want for a Test.

Rick Herdes

When I had to take guys out of the game and went to the bench, it seemed like we lost momentum. (Quincy) played extremely well.

Dan Curtis

Life is extremely valuable, and you don't always get a second chance. What a way to be able to say thank you to someone.

Nell Fortner

LSU is a well-oiled machine. They are extremely talented, but we feel we are playing them at a good time.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

Ganiyat Adeduntan

Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Denny Plyler

We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.

Bill Stenger

The PTO has been extremely supportive. They have been very helpful. I couldn't be happier to have a group like them contributing so much to the school.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Deepika Padukone

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Joe Laud

We have initiated an investigation because we feel there were some discrepancies that we have encountered, but right now we're in the initial steps of the investigation.

Martin Winterkorn

One million units by 2008 is just an initial aim.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Jaime Dacey

My initial thought was that I was going to try out for the team.

David Healy

My initial reaction was, 'What took them so long?' ... They had too many brands, too many fiefdoms, and they had to simplify it. Even after they phase out Oldsmobile, they'll have too many, but I don't see them making another move for the foreseeable future.

Harvey Levin

My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested. I thought, I'm going to do more television. Why would I do Internet?

Harvey Levin

My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested,

Christine Crocker

On the initial accreditation it was a matter of whether we?re talking the talk. Now, it?s can we walk the walk?

Christine Crocker

On the initial accreditation, it was a matter of whether talking the talk. Now its can we walk the walk,

Tullian Tchividjian

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

Jack Colley

We're looking at trains as a primary way to move large means of people.

George Casey

Level 1 is being totally independent, and we know they're not going to be there in large numbers for a while. But they're already getting to level 2, which means they can get into and lead the fight.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Susan Collins

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Dan Landon

This project is not a large project in terms of state funding.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Bill Cowher

We've got a young quarterback who doesn't play young. It's a very resilient group, very focused.

Deepak Chopra

Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.

Chu Woosik

We get the sense that it's still a strong, resilient world out there.

Chad Wintz

We've got a little moxie to us. I know we've been awfully resilient in a lot of different instances this year.

Kris Benson

We are a resilient team. You've got to work through those things and come out ahead.

Ed Pepple

They've been resilient all year. We were written off, and (we) always come back.

Leon Panetta

The Taliban is resilient.

Jeff Bezos

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

Jeff Tedford

They bounced back pretty well. They're a lot more resilient than the coaches.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Charles Jaffe

It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

Bill James

You're just too poor to get rich.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Jason Aldean

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

R. Robinson

Me and Rich wore vests so you would know we were brothers.

Paul Cordes

Many were struck by ... poverty, at times shameful, in rich America,

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Sue Christiansen

So far, they seem to be working well and doing what they're supposed to.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Alex Young

We would ultimately like to have a warning system throughout the solar system so we could know when these storms will occur.

Patrick Moore

There's no way that solar panels or windmills can do it themselves.

Donald Yeomans

If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.

O. Henry

It's going right on out of the solar system.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.