Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Hawken

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

Lawrence Lindsey

huge economic and ecological repercussions down the road.

Karen Russell

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

Richard Meritzer

It's a great thing to do. It's ecological and it's healthy.

E. Hurley

It's sort of like hearing a rock star is coming. He's not just talking about traditional ecological knowledge. He's actually doing it.

Jim Hall

The whole ecological system in the forest here is very much imbalance.

Richard Wilkinson

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Bradley Chicho

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Jim McFarland

We're still not expanding in the right areas, ... We have a waiting list for nursing and we talk about expanding in other areas.

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Cathy Merlino

The truth is, we don't know what the future holds for us. The season is just getting under way, so we are expanding our hours to accommodate what we hope will be increased activity.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

Erin O'Connor

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Edward Furlong

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

Ban Ki-moon

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Gerard Houllier

We have made another step towards the qualification. This is proof that this team is growing and getting more mature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Joel Fuhrman

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Jack Kilby

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Gerhard Schroeder

We had a very fundamental reckoning about what we've done wrong -- and, more importantly, about what we have done right and will do right in the future,

Lorna Luft

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Pat Harris

Can you reconcile the Scott Peterson you know with the person who could have done this?

Jim Colborn

It's like something got reconciled in him, ... who he was and who he can be.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Karl Pilkington

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Jason Fuchs

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

Nikki Reed

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

Nikki Sixx

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

S. T. Joshi

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Barbra Streisand

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Ralph Carter

When I got into Irving's, ... everyone was talking about it.

Ken Lucas

We're kind of low-key. We don't like a lot of attention. Keep talking about the other teams, and we'll just come out and do our job.

Karen Finney

We're doing the work, we're not just talking about it.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

Joe Torre

You know we're capable. It's always talking about the thumpers and all of the big things we can do.

J. J. Johnson

We got to talking, and he got talking about his case.

Zulima Farber

We're not talking years -- we're talking weeks or months, not years.

Bob Duncan

We're not talking about tens of thousands, but it's significant.

Mack Brown

We're not talking about starters, because we're going to need all of those guys.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.