Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Napthine

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

Ernie Harwell

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

Dave Morgan

We plan on being as busy as we can be all day. We had to start thinking about this as soon as they announced the teams on Sunday, but I am not going to complain about them being in the tournament.

Dion Cornett

When a resignation for 'family reasons' is announced that close to earnings, nine times out of 10 it means bad things. Red Hat didn't do a good job handling the news.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

Larry Rice

When they first announced this, I said, 'Who?' ... I was hoping it would be somebody with a higher profile.

Brian Finnerty

When they announced it was going into the S&P, it ran up dramatically and held up. I think it's normal to get a little profit taking, even though the number was good.

Najib Mikati

I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

Nicky Whelan

It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

Jim Taylor

The police car, which had its blue lights flashing, was responding to a serious large-scale disturbance nearby when it struck the man as he crossed the road to where a taxi was waiting for him.

Tom Coughlin

The penalties are an issue that we have talked about until, quite frankly, we are blue in the face, ... And we will continue to do that. They are very, very bothersome. They are a nemesis to us.

David Carson

Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

Don Yaeger

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

Brian Eno

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

Eric Burdon

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Charles Platt

In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.

C. V. Raman

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

C. V. Raman

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

Abu Ahmed

The policy makers are not serious over the issue of improving the overall strength of the capital market.

Denis Napthine

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

John C. Calhoun

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

William Graham Sumner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noreena Hertz

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Cristina Kirchner

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Erno Rubik

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Brunello Cucinelli

In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

Billy Graham

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.

Zubin Mehta

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Chuck Schumer

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.

Tony Kaye

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

Bill James

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

Ramon Leyba

There are other things he could have chosen and still make his point and still be as literate or as sarcastic.

William H. Hunt

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

Ami Bera

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

Jim Armstrong

We had an outstanding first quarter with major wins for all product lines in every geography and the successful completion of several strategic initiatives.

Steve Thomas

We are looking at an October project completion date.

Sidney Taurel

The rapid completion of the share repurchase program, coupled with the initiation of a new program, reflect the board's continued high level of confidence in the future of the company.

Brian Billick

The quarterback's completion percentage -- even in the first two weeks -- is pretty good, ... That should lead to more productivity.

Michael Linenberg

We are pleased with the results as we think a (more than) 90 percent completion factor during a strike is very impressive.

Chris Faircloth

We're more consistent on our assignments. We run our routes better. Still, we're not at the completion percentage we'd like to be. What we are happy about is people have to play us in the pass, which really helps our running game.

Jami Rubin

In addition, we think completion of the company's consent decree obligations is a major psychological positive that could also have financial implications, as spending on consultants and inspections declines.

Bill Douglas

Minnesota will have to wait their turn, ... We'll relinquish our jurisdiction over him upon completion of our criminal case.

Bob Young

Look what we've accomplished so far this year. We're pretty much filling the stadium every night with a team that has only won two games. This is pretty much unheard of in the CFL. This is a sign of the completion of the initial phase of this project . . . The fact David can step out this early is a huge compliment to what he has achieved.

Camille Paglia

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Don Smithburg

We need funding to partially restore New Orleans.

Rachel Bronson

We know wealthy Saudis are funding terror. With higher oil prices, they just have more money to do so.

Dennis Schain

We know there's more need than funding available.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Daniel Akaka

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Jan Davis

The only place we have left to turn now is the cities. If we don't get funding from them, I'm not sure what we're going to do at this point.

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Nina Garcia

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

Tony Juniper

We are going to war with the nuclear industry -- but with a positive not a negative campaign.

will.i.am

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

will.i.am

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Octavia E. Butler

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

Oscar Isaac

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

Doug Harris

We want to try and get more people out to introduce our crossbows, this is the second year for us with the crossbows, to come out and shoot them.

Tommy Dolde

These kids get introduced to it in our Junior Olympic program.

Sergei Lavrov

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

Nick Hornby

Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music; maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Michael Burkett

Whenever you introduce a new product, you introduce risk.

John Baker

We'll try to keep one lane open at all times.

Travis Brickey

Throughout the project, there will be two lanes open going into town and one lane open going out of town.

Eva Gabor

I love the fast lane.

Ivan Radenovic

I saw that he was looking at Kirk. The lane was wide open.

Kelly Baraga

He was in the No. 2 lane and just slid. He was probably going too fast.

John Bond

I was taught that the middle lane was the one you travel on. The left is for passing. The right is for on and off.

Jim Phillips

It's the schoolhouse that Schoolhouse Lane is named after,

Amy Heckerling

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

Marvin Hamlisch

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Rafe Spall

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Peter Shaffer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

David Beckham

We could have done without this, leading up to the World Cup.

Alison Tyler

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Brad Joyner

We were just pleased to get the win.

Dr. Fukino

We are actually very pleased with the report.

Bob Bryan

We're not too pleased about it. But we'll see how it goes.

Tom Burt

We are really pleased with the judge's order,

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Courtney Gains

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Christopher Golden

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Dan Quisenberry

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

Victor Diaz

You know it, man. Every at-bat this spring was like the World Series for me. I'm just going to go out there and be ready.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Alan Cohen

Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.

Cai Luoyi

There is more fundamental support to be long, considering the tightness of the market.

Larry Richardson

We need your support, we need your support.

Sally Pacheco

To go this long and have all that stress, we have to have support from somewhere.

Austin Corson

We have a lot of support from our families.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Carly Fiorina

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Vint Cerf

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

Todd Burns

We had anticipated this technology coming, so we didn't do a lot of hiring.

Iris Apfel

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Dick Cheney

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

Dax Shepard

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

Daniel Suarez

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

Peter Jackson

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

Larry Phillips

We just didn't have the technology. It's a very unfortunate situation.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Ken Young

This is my first venture out this way.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Nas

Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.