Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Daniel Webster

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

John Grahame

The past six games, I felt pretty well. I think everybody's intensity has picked up. I think mine has.

Anthony D'Angelo

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Vincent Pastore

'The Sopranos' wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It's like a '50s or '60s style. It fits me well.

Nayvadius Cash

I gotta have my long trench coats, a nice scarf for the winter time when you're walking around, and some nice fitted jeans to go with the trench coats.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

Elliott Abrams

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Corrine Brown

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Cesar Romero

George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.

Drew Carey

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tom Rooney

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Alexa Von Tobel

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Doug Ewell

We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.

Eric Ripert

As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Bill Carmody

Yeah, it's tough to win on the road.

Doug Miller

We'll never really know what went down. This is a tough situation.

Pat McMahon

We're not used to this and don't like it one bit. It's a very long and a very tough day.

Bill Fetters

Well, they always give us a tough game.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.

Julie Clark

We have a tough schedule, ... But we have a tough team, we should be strong.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Edie Falco

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Carlos Gomez

We're like cheese. Everyone wants to take a bite.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.