Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivek Wadhwa

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.

Abraham Lincoln

We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death, the like of which would never happen to Gen. Cass. Place stacks a thousand miles apart: he would stand stock still, midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time.

Chino Moreno

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

Chet Faker

I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.

Chet Faker

I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls - that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.

Ellen Key

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

Elizabeth Warren

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

Elizabeth Warren

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

David A. Bednar

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

Ben Barnes

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

William Gibson

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

Charisma Carpenter

Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.

Paul Chryst

We probably should have gotten him more, right?

Trent Reznor

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Tom Brady

You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.

Anna Deavere Smith

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

Katie Chang

Now I've gotten to know more about the industry. And now that I'm over 18, I can work without my parents on set. That was nice and helped me get comfortable.

Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Susanne Langer

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Ivan Urlaub

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

V. S. Naipaul

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Source Unknown

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

David Weinberger

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

Edwards Deming

Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Cynthia Ozick

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Paul Hawken

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

Camille Little

We played well when it mattered and pulled it out, and that's all that mattered.

Cal Nichols

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.

Chet Faker

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

David Zayas

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Chris Thompson

Yeah, I was surprised. I was sitting on the bench.

Grant Stout

When you shoot, you're in control. This was harder, sitting there waiting for someone else.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Daniel Handler

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.