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.

Wendy Kopp

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Vivek Wadhwa

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Ben Carson

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Brent Scowcroft

The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.

Tom Lynch

The overall mission of Fuel Advantage is to bring technology innovators and government incentive programs together in one place, so fleet operators will finally know where to go and who to talk to about saving money on their fuel costs.

Annie Leibovitz

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

Big Sean

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

Vivek Wadhwa

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Vivienne Westwood

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.

will.i.am

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

Emma Roberts

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

Emma Watson

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Elizabeth Warren

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Janet Callison

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Brian Harvey

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

David Steinberg

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

David H. Murdock

I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

Dennis Christopher

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Creighton Abrams

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Oliver Goldsmith

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That foundst me poor at first, and keepst me so.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Sara Teasdale

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Cate Blanchett

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

Ann Richards

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Joe Kuhn

We battled. Unfortunately, someone had to lose. It's sad to say that we lost.

Fernando Flores

Yeah, I have a 9-year-old boy. It's kind of sad but it's a surprise too because I don't know. I didn't know what was going on here.

Lionel Messi

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Heather Fargo

Unfortunately, you're here at a very sad time in our history,

Ben Maynard

We're going to be sad about it. But we can't look back yet. We still have the postseason.

William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Slash

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.

Lucy Parsons

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

Shania Twain

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Donald Trump

I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies.

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Bob Mitchell

We're doing whatever we can to get them to buy.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Abraham Nunez

You've got to do whatever you can to win. Whatever you have is whatever it takes.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.