Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Larry Holmes

The police are finding more and more excuses to inhibit, prohibit demonstrations, build pens that you can't even see over to put demonstrators in.

Joan Neilsen

The overriding idea of the program is to speak French and build the students' self-confidence and self-assurance in themselves.

Anthony D'Angelo

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

Bee Wilson

Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

Ellen Key

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.

Ellen Key

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

Yoram Peri

The political picture created now is far different than it was in 1992 when Yitzhak Rabin was elected.

Common

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Tim Jackson

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Vivek Wadhwa

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Billy Graham

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Zubin Mehta

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Jeff Jackson

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Catherine McAuley

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

Carmen Dolfo

We played a great first half. We played together and played great defense, but defensively we just couldn't get back into a flow in the second half.

Mike Mills

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Kris Janowski

We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Chester Bowles

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Ernestine Rose

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Bill Baker

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.

Stephen Hall

We played a little more intense in the second half, and hit some 3-pointers. But in the first half, we were just having fun.

Danny Smith

We played a big physical team. They couldn't play us (man-to-man), so they had to play zone. We hit 10 threes in the game.

Kevin Froud

We proceeded to quit scoring. We were getting shots in the lane, but we weren't hitting them. We weren't playing with our head, but we made the plays in the end that we needed to.

Willy Taveras

We practice that a lot, ... But that ball, not many people can hit it there.

Brian Smith

We opened up that third quarter pretty much on fire. When we're hitting 3s, we're pretty tough to stop.

Tippi Hedren

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

Tyler Farr

Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Bonnie Tyler

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

Vidya Balan

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

Walter Lippmann

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Felix Hernandez

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

Arlen Specter

three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.

Yuri Andropov

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

David Garcia

We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate.

Mark Warren

We are doing everything possible to treat the water,

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Larry Gibson

We have all the resources we need at this time.

Anne Schwartz

We have tremendous resources expended to look for these boys.

Norm Zada

We don't have the resources to sue everybody.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Todd Clapper

In those special situations we were not where we wanted to be.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Steve Chizmar

Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Anupam Kher

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.