Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Cogman

I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.

Torsten Wiesel

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Vidya Balan

All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

Alex Campbell

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Dave Kasper

We're encouraged by the news today that Freddy's injury is indeed minor. He has already begun the rehabilitation process and we look forward to having him back in uniform in a matter of weeks.

Alice Oswald

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

Kate Warne

Today was -- and I expect tomorrow to be -- quiet. I think many people have already begun the Easter holiday and it would take a big surprise in something tomorrow for the market to move very strongly one way or the other.

Tom Stringfellow

Three major buyers of oil will emerge in the future. China, India and the United States. This will create interesting geopolitical scenarios we haven't begun to address.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Glynn Birch

The poll clearly shows this is a major concern, especially during the holidays because of increased drinking and increased driving.

Madeline Albright

The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.

Arndt Ellinghorst

The outlook that the first half-margin should be similar to the second half last year clearly highlights that the market pressures will continue and that Peugeot is less resistant to these pressures, given that their cost savings are flattening out and the new models are delivering less of a positive volume and mix effect than the company was expecting.

Bridget Kelly

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

William Hague

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Nicole Holofcener

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

F. Sionil Jose

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

Charles Bass

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Kate Warne

Where consumers are likely to feel the pinch more is at the pump, where gasoline prices are likely to rise.

Noreena Hertz

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

Sandro Veronesi

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

Anton Kruger

We are grateful to local consumers for their increased consumption of ostrich meat, which expanded the local market considerably,

Yves Behar

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Bernie Sanders

States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Dev Hynes

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

Kevin Corrigan

We played well at times, but we didn't relentlessly execute like we needed to. In the end, we were able to gather our poise and play hard down the stretch and pull out a win when we needed to. But I'd like to see us play more consistently than we have been over the full 40 minutes.

Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Tom Higgins

We'd like for him to have come on out and execute at a much higher level and it just didn't happen this evening.

Leila Janah

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Tony Cordani

We didn't really execute well offensively. The shots that were falling the other night weren't falling tonight. It just wasn't our night.

Jerry Eaves

We just didn't have the mental outlook to execute at the end.

Jozef Stumpel

We just didn't have it. This was a key game and we didn't execute the way we needed to.

Paul Thompson

We just didn't have good execution. TCU did a good job of putting a stop to us, and we couldn't execute as well as we needed to.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Tim Floyd

We probably played the way our preseason prognostications were. We're not that bad. They were really focused on defense. They didn't let us do anything.

Marcus Hall

When game time comes along, I think we'll be focused and ready. We take pride in this and want to win every game we play. We've still got a lot left to prove; we want to go out and get a 30-point victory ourselves.

Robert Vaden

We're not going to get too focused on how many points he scores; there is still a game that needs to be played.

Paul Alioto

We did some things with our half-court offense that we haven't done all year. It just seems like we're more focused for the playoffs.

Paul Otellini

We are heads-down focused on ramping the Pentium 4,

Rod Barnes

We are going to work hard and be focused and ready to play.

Nnamdi Asomugha

We're not going to be too quick to get all excited. We know it's a long season and anything can happen but as long as we stay focused throughout the way and we remain patient, we can be successful. It's when we start getting outside of ourselves and thinking we're this or thinking we're that, that's when things can get chaotic.

Alan Moore

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

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.

Sadie Jones

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Richard Migliore

It has been kind of wearing on me. I got through the holidays OK but then it was like, 'OK, I want to get back to work.' Sure, it's frustrating but I have been through this before.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Gennaro Gattuso

There is little to say after that performance,

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Joe Potter

We've kind of snuck in there. But we keep improving, and we have throughout the season. As the year got longer, we got better.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Phil Gramm

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mo Ibrahim

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Jean Kerr

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Larry Jones

But that's up to Toyota if they want to use it.

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Jean Kerr

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

Karl Lagerfeld

I never played with anything like toys.

Laurell K. Hamilton

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.