Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Levitt

While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.

Arthur Holly Compton

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

David Whitehouse

Reporting the consensus about climate change ... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn't believe them anymore.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Alan Jay Lerner

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Alan Jackson

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Alan Jackson

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

Anthony Browne

When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.

Paul Jepson

When I was actually drawing the lethal injection, she died.

Rafer Alston

We're going to go to Yao and go to Yao and go to Yao. We have to knock down open shots when Yao is drawing double-teams and triple-teams and he's passing the ball out. We have to find a way to knock down open shots for him.

Nikki Rocco

We're going to go back to the drawing board. Good movies are supposed to buck this trend. You hear how it's all about the product, but we have an excellent movie that people just aren't turning out for. It's something bigger.

Mike Shanahan

We're going to go back to the drawing board,

Don Phillips

Whenever one or two people think they want a study group or discussion - boom - you've got a class. And that's what makes SAGE so great. They're drawing on personal experiences. Been there, done that.

Connie Sellecca

When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.

Terry Greene

What has impressed me the most is Wildfire has been winning when things aren't going his way. He's dead rail but he's been drawing all outside boxes.

Geoff Smith

We've asked Kenny to return for an encore performance. He did a really nice job in a car that was not set up for him and he didn't have any practice in the car.

Richard Foreman

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

Vince Green

We've always had a successful business here, but you have periods of financial difficulty, and we don't deny that. I've always taken care of my obligations. Sooner or later, we take care of our obligations.

Karen Stewart

When we were in Waveland, we were thinking about how we could help folks. We wanted it to be more than that we went to Waveland for two weeks to help. We wanted to say that people outside of Mississippi care about them and believe as they do that they will rebuild.

David Brown

When we went into foster care this last time we talked to our children about our desire to adopt and they were all excited about the possibility.

Matthew Perry

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

Patty Williams

When it came to his students, he really cared about us. He genuinely cared about all of us. I never doubted that.

Jeff Gordon

Tony is a true American racer. You can put him in any car on any track, and he'll be fast. He's good on the short tracks, the intermediate tracks, the restrictor-plate tracks and the road courses.

Nia Vardalos

Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it.