Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Palm

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

Peter Power

The political question that needs to be answered is: is it better to go ahead with the meeting if you are unsure of the result or postpone for a couple of weeks and have a greater chance of a result.

Scott Brockman

(The pilot) contacted the tower, did a fly-by in which (air traffic controllers) inspected the gear, found the other landing gear was intact and made the decision at that point to go ahead and land the aircraft.

Dan Ahrens

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Tom Schrader

The payroll data Friday is going to be the big swing factor. Ahead of that, I would expect that we could drift a little higher, but nothing too substantial.

Nick Woodman

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

Nino Fennoy

We progressed. We've just got to keep doing what we're doing. We're never ahead of schedule. There's always things we can do better.

John Lilly

We probably are a little bit ahead of where we usually are at this time.

John Coleman

We previously expected trading during the first half of 2006 to be difficult. We are pleased that the first seven weeks have been ahead of our original expectations.

Fairfax Cone

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Brad Shaw

I think everybody should take a trip up that elevator once in their life.

Diane Holley

We wanted a better solution to provide more elevator service while work is in progress.

Peter Swire

What's done in the elevator stays in the elevator. Except when it doesn't.

Macaulay Culkin

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

Steve Israel

now seeking an appropriation for an elevator for Anthony Hall.

Benjamin Harrison

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,

Bill Doyle

She opened the letter in an elevator and got dizzy. She was in total shock. She never expected this.

Richard Anderson

It's going to require an elevator and that's going to be very expensive.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Paul Anka

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

John Gibson

We had a manager that was from out of town. We tried that. We didn't feel we were succeeding there.

Magglio Ordonez

We had to respond. When you have a manager like that ...

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Tom Reilly

The truth is that every sales manager needs to be a coach.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

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.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Damien Chazelle

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

David Buckley

When the universe was very young it was smooth and had a uniform distribution but now it is quite clumpy,

Vikram Chatwal

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Ken Dixon

We're kind of blase about 'just ride the bus,' but you don't realize how tough it is. It's quite a trip, especially if you have kids.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Lisa Unger

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Elaine Lyttleton

There is is no reason why someone should not be registered.

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Sergio Aragones

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Steve Breen

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

Shepard Smith

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Barbara Corcoran

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

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.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.