Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vonda Shepard

Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.

Elliott Abrams

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

Tom Brokaw

Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.

James Robertson

When you're relying on something that uses electrical power and someone to do maintenance on the thing ... if you have a power failure that takes the station out, you run the risk of sewage backing up into homes. By putting in a gravity line we won't have to rely on electrical power to transport sewage.

Lee Ritenour

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

Tony Dwyer

We're due for a week's worth of consolidation. Just some backing and filling. Following that, we can head higher.

Alan Greenspan

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.

Walter Martin

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

Bernie Sanders

While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.

Virginia Postrel

Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.

Ninon Lenclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

Douglas Rushkoff

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

David Suzuki

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

David Thornton

When a quarterback has happy feet, when he has to make a quicker decision than he wants to, he'll make choices he doesn't really want to. That creates turnovers for the defense.

Jim Geringer

We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice.

Rob Gould

We are not going to be doing this on the cheap. We want them to be very clear on what choices they're going to make.

Tony Bisutti

We had a pretty good early choice of where we wanted to go. I looked at when we wanted to play as much as anything. I felt this was a team that could use some time after the season where we could refocus.

Marc Magliari

We had no choice. Our federal appropriation this year from Congress has a requirement for a 'significant' improvement in the costs of our food service.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Carly Fiorina

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Preity Zinta

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

Malcolm Gladwell

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

Vikram Seth

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Evel Knievel

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Michael Kors

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Michael Mahoney

We're enrolling several hundred new kids per month.

Trey Anastasio

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Don Ho

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Doug Hawkins

We don't have pitchers to strike out 10, so we have to rely on our defense. They picked us up today.

Joe Condit

We haven't picked out any specific properties yet. This process is just beginning. It probably will take a year to sort out which ones we want to buy.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Nicole Vaidisova

In the second set, I picked it up very fast, just dictating play, so she didn't get any rhythm,

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.