Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Naifeh

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

Tamara Ecclestone

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

Stewart Butterfield

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Jeffrey Hammond

We have linked this gastrointestinal outbreak to the Sprayground attraction, and it has been closed down for the year.

Dante Jimenez

We (are) not closed only to one, let?s say the organizers (of the show). We think many are responsible.

John Kinsey

When (the TSX) opens after being closed while the U.S. market was open, all the inter-listed stocks get adjusted.

Noah Feldman

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

Louis Freeh

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Omid Namazi

We played well, but I thought what killed us was our finishing touch. We just have got to get better at finishing our chances. We are still confident and we think we can get it done at home.

Tom Barrett

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

Vera Wang

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

Errol Alcott

We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.

Steve Brown

We disagree with the decision and we are confident that the patent is enforceable.

Rob Glaser

We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects.

Dale T. Mortensen

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

Michael Marks

What you see over the last two years is that the deals are getting increasingly larger.

Mark Campbell

We are looking at deals that will most likely be getting funding, if not from us, from some other source.

Wendell Berry

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of life unites, it deals with the v

Hedda Hopper

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Michael Greely

We are actually quite nervous that in some of these sub-categories, valuations are jumping back up to levels we have not seen since the bubble. Deals are more competitive that they've been in a while.

Craig Brown

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

Andrew Hudson

We're in a good situation. We just try to keep everybody healthy as much as we possibly can. Because everybody deals with that.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Bee Wilson

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Noah Feldman

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Clive Sinclair

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Pete Townshend

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Tom Clancy

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Trip Adler

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Bruce Jackson

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Jill Lepore

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

Gerard Sullivan

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

Linda Jay

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

Peter Cardillo

We're at the end of the quarter so there is some window dressing. The focus is now totally on earnings, and this earnings season looks as though it will be strong if not stronger than last quarter.

Alan Ackerman

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

Tom Schoewe

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Vince Vaughn

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

Wole Soyinka

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

Neil Kinnock

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Phaedrus

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Andrew Weil

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

Heidi Murkoff

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

David Stern

We haven't had excessive fisticuffs. These are things that commissioners worry about. And truth be told, our player reputation in the testing that we do is rebounding quite well from a year ago.

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Robert Hickey

We opened it up in the fourth and were able to hit some shots. That really helped us. We haven't been shooting well this year so that was good to see.

Andrei Kirilenko

We had an opportunity to keep (the lead), but Dirk had a tremendous game and in the fourth quarter he just killed us.

Scott Burzynski

We had a nice run at the end of the third quarter and the start of the fourth quarter. With Poore on the bench, B.J. Thompson did a nice job in the middle for us.

Narendra Modi

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

Tom Izzo

We're a very good offensive team. And that'll get us about fourth place in our league.

Ebenezer Ekuban

We can't let this go into overtime. In the fourth quarter it seemed like they had momentum going and ... if we'd gone to overtime I don't think it would have been good for us, so we knew that was a play we had to make.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Vint Cerf

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Jerry Howard

We are not just talking about slowing the growth of house prices. We are taking about house prices diminishing.

Alan Cohen

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Stephen Dean

When we rank the stocks, we find more value stocks at the top of the list and more growth names at the bottom.

Stephen Mergler

When growth stocks start paying a dividend it is an indication that there are not a lot of opportunities remaining out there.

Anthony Chan

We're not going to get the 1.5 percent productivity growth necessary to produce all those jobs. Such a fall-off would be out of line with what normally happens.

Doug Hall

We are looking at a lot of growth and a lot of changes.

Sundar Pichai

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

Alex Gibney

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

Karnail Singh

We are looking at various angles, including previous attacks.

Roy Keane

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

Delores Killette

We will also be communicating often with customers. We will use every means possible, including the mail, to let them know about service improvements, the reopening of local post offices and other information about local mail service.

Marc Schlosser

We are seeing some very positive results in patients, including those at this center.

Kelly Callahan

We had limited it to just the older, Model A-type vehicles, but this year we're including some other varieties.

Paul Tagliabue

We are in the process of working out the specific arrangements, including the day and kickoff time and plans for television coverage.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Marvin Sapp

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

Gwen Carter

We license the home, not the whole neighborhood.

Gwen Moore

There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses,

Harry Williams

Photo Stencil is the only Xerox-authorized stencil manufacturer to use the SMTX Electroform stencil technology, licensed under U.S. Patents 5,359,928 and 5,478,699, owned by Xerox.

Mike Hanson

We can write a citation for each person they serve without a license or each person that is under 21.

Carl-Henric Svanberg

We're all waiting for the 3G licenses in China,

Richard Costigan

We will be vetoing the driver's license bill.

George Peterson

There are 64 million people in the U.S. who will be getting drivers' licenses in the next 10 years.

Jim Balsillie

When we license this we're going to look for reputable, substantial companies,

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Gennaro Gattuso

There is little to say after that performance,

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Mike Conway

We had fog, visibility about a quarter of a mile. It's foggy, but it's not pea soup.

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Joe Johnson

In the third quarter they wanted it more than we did.

Randall Godfrey

You can't go to 0-3. This first quarter of the season is so important. We have to at least get even.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Ian Shepherdson

The only soft spots in the survey remain inventories and employment, but they will recover.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Ray Giacoletti

We haven't done anything. We need to remain hungry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Bob Boughner

When the votes come in, the results will speak for themselves.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Aaron Mokoena

We must win. No other result will do.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

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.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Ralph Johnson

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Fred Brooks

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Jeff Pulver

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.

Drew Carey

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

Tom McLean

We're averaging about three a day right now in Citrus County.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Joey Porter

Three on the road? Nothing we've never done before.

Virginia Kennedy

Trophies can take over your life. So I keep them in three areas.

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

Rowan Alexander

Whether it is 1-0 or 6-0, it is three points.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?