Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Yehuda Berg

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

Colm Meaney

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

Etel Adnan

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

Don Shula

The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.

Virginia Postrel

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

Jeff Schuster

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

Charles Koch

Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

Tinashe

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

Mike Campbell

We are not oblivious to other technologies competing for people's time ... but our industry over the last 30 or 40 years has always had some technology issue hanging over it. People want to get out of the home and socialize ... and they can't do that ... with a home theater system.

Tami Harrison

We had no depth. They only count the top four scores. Orlando had 18 kids competing on Level 10, and most of the other teams had at least 10.

Robert Reich

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Joe Blair

There are three stages to the game. There's learning the game, competing and winning. We're still between learning and competing. That's just the stages of development.

Tim Lambesis

There are not as many tours competing with it. In the summer, you have all those tours competing with each other, which gets kind of hard on the wallet as a fan.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Meriwether Lewis

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Laurence Yep

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

Larry Scott

This schedule reflects the continued global expansion of and investment in women's professional tennis. The return of the Tour Championships to Europe in Madrid is particularly exciting for our European fans and players, and will ensure a fantastic finale to the 2006 season.

Manfred von Richthofen

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

Besa Deda

There is little doubt that firms in the US have plenty of pricing power, given the continued strength of the US consumer.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Al Madrigal

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

Brunello Cucinelli

If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.

James Stephens

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.

Najib Mikati

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

Bill Owens

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Eric Poteet

We're not ruling anything out at this point, but we are treating it as a domestic incident.

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

Cao Yu

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Nikki Blonsky

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Mark Anderson

We are concerned. There is a going rate for fruit-picking which is about $30 a bin. They are expected to do five bins a day.

Lee Watkins

When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think any of them expected total devastation.

Alison Moyet

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

Anne F. Beiler

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Don Blatchford

We are going to withhold the portion of the rent increase that we feel is unfair and unreasonable.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Lee Raymond

to minimize the increase in price while at the same time recognizing if we kept the price too low we would quickly run out (of fuel) at the service stations.

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Bo Burnham

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Billy Higgins

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Bill Paxton

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Errol Morris

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Harvey Fierstein

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

Brian Riedl

It's about time lawmakers sacrifice pork projects that essentially serve as taxpayer-financed re-election advertisements.

Josh Henderson

I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it.

Phil Gramm

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

Tim McAfee

This is not about the pork rinds. It was never about the pork rinds. We investigated things that are quite serious.

Tim McAfee

This is not about pork rinds. It was never about pork rinds. This is quite serious.

Long Nguyen

Could be better. Need steak. Pork chop, maybe.

Muhammad Ali

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

Dan Scott

Worst-case scenario would be a strike starting Monday.

Philip Rivers

When it's all over -- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, mid-January -- then I can just play out every scenario in my head.

Rich Glas

We didn't make enough plays. That's been the scenario of our season.

Ulysses Yannas

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

Christian Prudhomme

It's important to have a new freshness. To have scenarios that no one is anticipating and no one can control.

Jamie Kritzer

It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Patrick Leahy

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Stephen Friedman

To make it more meaningful, you really have to have the right class. What makes this work is the setting of the right person in the right class.

Richard Greenberg

The implication is that these settings would actually be hospitable to life,

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Ruby Dee

We've got the possibility of setting things right,

Yvonne Martinez

We've got two teenagers we're talking to right now, and one of them has confessed to setting the fire.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

John Davis

We wanted to keep our monthly payments similar to what they are now, and we can do that by splitting it three ways.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Lisa Marie Presley

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

John Pistole

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

Bruce Bochy

That was very similar to how he threw for the Dodgers.

Richard Jefferies

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Evita Peron

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

David Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Lapo Elkann

I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

Nacho Figueras

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

Mauricio Botelho

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength.

David Somerville

I'll be on the convoys taking the supplies to the infantry,

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Tim Ryan

We need to be able to at the very least supply our own military.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

B. F. Skinner

All indications are right now that we're going to have ample supply of vaccine this year.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Mitch Dorger

You can do the math. Supply and demand.

Lola Russell

We're very optimistic. We are monitoring it and keep up with supply issues.

Nigel Hamilton

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Marcus Samuelsson

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

William Shakespeare

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Ed Jackson

We're going to be squeezing in just like you do at Thanksgiving dinner.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Calvin Coolidge

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

Yanni

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

Sarah Jessica Parker

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Nik Rapelje

(Interstate) 70 is usually worse, so (U.S. Highway) 6 is standard. But if 6 is totally clogged you can always go Colfax.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,