Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Beverly Cleary

Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

David Horsey

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

David Horsey

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

Tom Wujec

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

Will Ferrell

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

Fred Seibert

Cartoon Hangover has given us another place we felt we could find the most talented people around the world and give them a chance to make the films they want to make and match it up with their audience.

Steve Breen

As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.

Steve Breen

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

Steve Breen

For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

Constance Marie

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Terry Thornton

The policy now is that an offender's race will not be used as a sole determining factor in housing. Our primary goal is to ensure that racial integration is completed in a manner that maximizes institutional security.

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared,

Rebel Wilson

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge' while studying, which was very difficult, but I'm proud I completed my degree.

Richard P. Feynman

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Eric Betzig

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

Clive Sinclair

Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

Clive Sinclair

This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.

Trent Yawney

We played OK at first. In the second we got away from our game and in the third we couldn't complete a pass.

Lauren Willig

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

Armistead Maupin

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Byron Scott

Three or four years ago, he was a pretty damn good scorer down low and outside. Hopefully, he still has that type of potential.

Jim Fassel

Those are the decisions you make, ... I made a lot of them. You can second-guess every damn one if you want.

Charles Spurgeon

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

Bill Walsh

We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!

Lawrence Frank

We're just playing at a much different level now, we're much more secure with who we are. We're in a much different state, where we don't exhale. We belong. We're a damn good team.

Sonny Terry

In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

Dorothy Allison

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

Walter Smith

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Marc Ratner

The police did a marvelous job. So did (ring announcer) Michael Buffer. He kept everybody calm. He told everyone to stay in their seats and that everything was under control.

Anna Nicole Smith

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Brian Van Holt

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Beeban Kidron

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Bill Hader

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

David Suchet

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

Desiree Rogers

I do feel strongly that we have got to do a little brand-positioning work. Wouldn't it be great to have something that everybody could say: 'Yep, that's Chicago.'

Donald Trump

Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

Gary Christian

The pin placements were very hard, ... The greens were actually a little softer today, but the pins and the wind made them tougher. I knew there weren't going to be any 65s today.

Denis Napthine

The Greens simply don't understand that a strong economy is the key to a better Victoria for all Victorian families.

Fred Schneider

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

Le Corbusier

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

Brian Cox

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

Anne Donovan

We relied too much on Lauren in the first half. We made sure (Betty) knew she had the green light. Her second half was the difference.

Blake Lively

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

Brian Kelly

We need to keep our head down and keep digging. We'll just ride this wave out and take it to Green Bay.

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.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Constance White

Pink has become as ubiquitous as black. Who would have thought that?

Fred Funk

I've got a pretty pink skirt for you,

Martin Nissenbaum

I'd say it's a pink flag, not a red flag. It's not necessarily going to get you audited, but you have to be careful.

David Anderson

I'm not fretting about having to put on the pink underwear.

Ron Smit

We're tickled pink with how this planter turned out. I don't know what I'd do to make it any better.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Peggy Lipton

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

Charles Churchill

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

will.i.am

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Eric Betzig

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

Nick Park

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Ansel Elgort

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Leland Orser

It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Dean Ornish

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.