Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Ellen Key

One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

Chang-Rae Lee

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

David Suzuki

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.

Pete Rose

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

Tom Brokaw

One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.

Tran Duc Luong

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Charlotte Riley

Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.

Marc Klee

We've always felt that we were going to have to test the bottoms that we've seen. We think what you are seeing today is probably that test and we really don't think that the market is going much lower.

Diane Garcia

This historic ranch is highly visible and an important working landscape in the area. It?s a spectacular view ? from the creek bottoms to the rolling hills and up to the forest areas.

Anonymous Toast

May the ships at sea never be bottoms up

Cynthia Rowley

I'm showing a lot of print bottoms (pants), which I think only the most forward -- most -- guys would wear,

Reggie Lee

When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.

Marc Jacobs

The pants and bottoms are fuller and, again, sort of soft with either gathering or tucks of some smocking details. The tops are pretty small -- narrow shoulders.

Pam Grier

It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

Harvey Eisen

I think by any measure we are at a major bottom, but bottoms don't happen overnight. Stocks can hit a bottom and then trade sideways, go up and down as they adjust. But I'd be stunned if we traded more than 10 percent lower.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Des Browne

Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.

Leila Janah

Work is at the core of human dignity.

Brad D. Smith

I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.

Bob Ainsworth

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

Dayananda Saraswati

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

Dayananda Saraswati

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Scott Smith

We are going back to our core business.

Kamal Sharma

We are looking for a rise of 0.4 percent in the core index, in line with the consensus, and that could give the yen a lift.

Ami Bera

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.

Charles Platt

If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

Doug MacIntyre

We probably are OK (with gasoline supplies) to get to Labor Day, but the question is how much is demand going to fall off (after the holiday) and what's crude going to do and how does that impact the gasoline price.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We are not planning to release any government-controlled crude oil stocks at this time,

Michael Darda

To me, this looks like continuation of crude oil escaping the gravity of reality.

Henry Selick

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go.

Steven Wieting

We're not at gas prices that pose some kind of a tipping point. There have been botched forecasts of a recession at every $10 move (higher) in crude oil futures.

Tobias Merath

The refinery outages should lead to weak demand for crude oil from the refining sector. It's not crude oil that is in short supply, but gasoline and distillates.

Thurston Moore

With these reissues, listening to these tapes, it seemed very crude to me. There's no way I'd ever want to play like that again.

Jim Nail

The impact of a pop-up is relatively crude and relatively negative.

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.

Francia Raisa

I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.

Roger Clemens

We played with heavy hearts, ... I don't know if I could've done what Paul O'Neill did.

Mark Ronson

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

Carlos Garcia

Typically we'll see the results of a heavy snowfall the next season.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Halle Berry

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

Joe Arbona

You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.

Rob Portman

We've got some heavy lifting over the next three months,

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

Frank Gillett

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Alan Alda

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Daria Werbowy

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Abraham Zapruder

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Grace Hightower

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Jack Welch

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Peter Drucker

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Henry Mintzberg

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Dennis Hastert

We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets,

Harvey Korman

Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

Jack Nicholson

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

Dean Wareham

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.

Ricardo Patton

If we don't go, I don't know that it will be because of this one loss. But I still think that we're a viable candidate.

Andrew Zimbalist

I don't think contraction is a viable option.

Gaby Hoffmann

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Tiger Woods

Variety is not everything! Viagra is!