Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Wynton Marsalis

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Morihei Ueshiba

The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six sense (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind). If the senses are clogged, one's perception is stifled. The more it is stifled, the more contaminated the sense become. This creates disorder in the world, and that is the greatest evil of all.

Jack Roeser

The people are looking for somebody that will clean up the mess. The last thing they're looking for is somebody from the mess. Jim fills that bill.

Julius Peppers

The Patriots are going to be very disciplined. We have to work even harder to clean up the stupid mistakes we made.

Christopher Fry

What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean

Nicole Ari Parker

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

Candice Accola

For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

David Suzuki

Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.

William Wagner

The patch helps keep the tissue thick and mechanically softer, creating a more conducive environment for healing instead of scar tissue formation.

Desiree Rogers

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

Liu Jianchao

We are happy about the normalization of the Pakistan-India relationship and hope such a momentum could be maintained and this could be conducive to the realization of solutions for the pending issues between the two countries.

David Whitaker

Typically, the proximity of an intermodal facility is conducive to the development of light manufacturing and distribution facilities,

Mike Archer

Today was a good day because I think the weather was very conducive to defense. It's like playing football in Pittsburgh.

Grant Wistrom

With the team we had last year, I think he did everything he could with that team. There were just some things happening that just weren't conducive to a championship-caliber football team. Those things have been addressed this year, and that's why we're winning.

Ouida Forsyth

Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.

Don Pierce

That would be more conducive to finding managers than to rely on an invite-only process.

David Axelrod

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

Paul Bloom

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

Sergei Lavrov

All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.

Mohammed Khatami

We discussed cooperation and coordination in the field of oil and ways to stop prices from falling,

Thaksin Shinawatra

We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can.

Shinzo Abe

Japan has consistently remained a friend of Indonesia since the end of World War II and has regarded cooperation with Indonesia as a top priority.

John Ashcroft

was made possible by the cooperation and help of Swiss authorities.

Richard Grenell

There is a unanimous feeling within the council that there must be greater cooperation from the Syrians.

Bob Martin

We have had great cooperation from the community, ... As soon as we get word that it is safe, we are sending 24 disaster relief trucks to the New Orleans area.

Will Rothhaar

What's the fun in approaching something closed-minded? I'm very specific; if dialogue is too on-the-nose, or there's a lot of telling and not showing, I'll talk to my manager and let them know the problems I have with it. But, I always go in with fresh eyes. The first pass just needs to be about figuring out little things here and there.

Bruce Feiler

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bill Hader

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

Katrina Kaif

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

Nancy Kress

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

Andrea Barrett

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Jalal Talabani

We still hope that by bilateral dialogue we see that we can solve this problem,

Philip Schultz

Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.

Sue Berkowitz

We hadn't gotten the momentum we hoped for until now. If something gets introduced and we at least get a dialogue going, that's a very positive move.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Tim Jackson

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Vivek Wadhwa

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

Clark Gregg

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

David Suzuki

Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.

Tim Bankston

We played with no energy today. Our kids did not want this game for whatever reason. And that's what happens when you don't come ready to play in the playoffs.

J. M. Roberts

We played with a lot of energy. We played with a lot of passion.

Bryce Swafford

We played with a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm. Then in the fourth quarter we were able to get the future Lady Bulldogs some experience.

Rich Conover

We played with a lot more energy than in the previous games.

Anthony Chan

We produce less than 50 percent of all the energy that we consume.

Jason Terry

We are not going to hang our head. We're going to come out with a lot of energy (Friday vs. Dallas).

Allan Payne

We are happy with the IRB series in that it guarantees us that we will get the big teams. But now we must also ensure that these teams get the players they want.

Chris Jones

We are going to work very hard to ensure as high a turnout as possible. We're going to try to set up a voting station at O-Hill on Thursday and we're going to stuff mailboxes.

Robert Wallis

We still hope for an orderly process. ... The opportunity to ensure this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami.

Craig Lewis

Tom knows our solutions and services inside and out, and is the perfect fit for this new role within the company. Working extensively with VARs within this industry for years, he has the leadership experience to ensure we have the right partners to ramp up quickly in these new markets.

Christopher Hill

We are looking for full compliance. We'd like to see full compliance. I don't want to predict when exactly we'll see it, but we are working very hard to ensure it.

Dennis Hastert

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.

Bill Evans

We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,

Bill Richardson

We have worked with refiners to help them with transportation, with numerous other logistical initiatives so that they can get more product into the market, ... I will be meeting next week with refiners, with petroleum executives, with many others -- heating oil suppliers, to ensure that we get this product reserve into the market.

Marquis de Lafayette

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

William Reddington Hewlett

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

Keith Bailey

The police have worked endlessly, day and night, to provide us the safest environment they can at 36th and Hampton. The police can only do so much. We have lost accountability of our family members.

David Rabe

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

Bruce Lipton

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

G. Gordon Liddy

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

Seinabo Sey

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

Trent Reznor

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

Tommy Caldwell

El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

David Suzuki

There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

Steven Levitt

If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.

Monica Crowley

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

Lee Myung-bak

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

Fareed Zakaria

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

Eugene Christiansen

There is immense global consolidation in this industry. Everyone is a target. No one is safe. That might be in their minds.

Tom Schoewe

Wal-Mart has only 3 percent of global market share. So there's still tremendous opportunity for expansion,

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Ntozake Shange

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Peter King

There is a very serious question as to why the records are not going to be maintained on American soil subject to American jurisdiction.

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Richard Parker

We have always been unique and we have always maintained the old-style structure and doctrine.

Tom Watson

We've been having struggles trying to keep enough volunteers. Now we're trying to maintain what we have.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

Peter Hillyard

We are not going to plunge to $500 or $400. The market is going to stay within a price range of $540 and $650.

Charles Alexander

We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Dallas Roberts

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

Lisa Busch

We play as a team and someone always steps up. Tonight it was just my time, my chance, to be there for the team and do that.

Adam Miller

We are just taking it step by step. This was another big win for us.

Terry Mulkey

We're just going to take it one step at a time and do it right.

Gerald Celente

Wal-Mart stepped to the plate, ... They didn't have to do that.

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Reggie Hamilton

Trey is Trey. I know that Trey is going to step it up and make big shots.

Jerry Colangelo

You know, usually everyone just does a two-year term. I've had two terms, and the right thing politically is to step down.

Pat Burrell

We need you to come up big. It's time to step it up.

Patrick Whitesell

We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,