Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

Warren Giles

A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Van Morrison

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Ellen G. White

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Valeria Golino

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Nanette White

We're doing the best we can. There's a lot of bending that must be done, but it's being done as quickly and efficiently as it can be.

Mark McKinnon

Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.

Joe Bugel

We couldn't be any more pleased with his progress, ... When he learns how to bend his knees and do the things that he's doing right now, he'll be perennial all-pro.

Ike Taylor

We came out flat in the first half. Coach told us to bend but don't break. The offense had an opportunity, and they went out and made a play.

Richard Carlson

Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.

Uri Geller

To be very honest with you, I even managed to bend it ever so slightly

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Chris Carter

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Ezra Taft Benson

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

Brad Goreski

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Esai Morales

All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.

Kenneth Darby

We know we can (do something special). There's no doubt in my mind, ... We know we could have done it last year, but that was last year and we're not really going to recollect on that. We're ready to show them what we can do this year and not really think about last year. Just perform.

Juror No

We had no doubt that they were guilty.

Tony Mosa

We had no doubts that we made the right decision. They violated one of the standard rules that we have. Every team knows that you can't do that.

Theodore C. Sorensen

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Dusty Dvoracek

When you watch the tape, you'll see we got after them. There wasn't any doubt to it at all. It was the key to the game.

Dear Abbey

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Joe Alexander

In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.

Scott Vickrey

I think it made us stronger. It showed us no matter how far we are down, we can come back. And Douglas is a quality team that can hit the ball. Even when we were up 14-9 I didn't feel the game was in the bag.

Brian Seymore

I thought that was uncalled for. The hit on Douglas was really late.

Curry Haggerty

I told them we could live with 12 turnovers, but 18 is too many. Good players make plays in the fourth quarter when it matters. That's what Douglas did.

Kenny Brown

There seemed to be a lid on the basket. But Douglas is a well-coached team and they don't rattle easily.

Mark Harmon

A Douglas fir, when it dies, hosts thousands of species.

Brian Seymore

Douglas has very good hands, and he doesn't hesitate in traffic. He doesn't play scared.

Maurice Cheeks

No. Douglas could penetrate, but he couldn't shoot like that.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

M. Wolfe

We played with heavy hearts. The kids did a great job under the circumstances and to finish the round is an accomplishment in itself.

Jaromir Jagr

We played 50 minutes with everything under control. We just have to learn how to finish the last 10.

Avery Johnson

We pretty much know where we're going to finish now. The only thing that really matters for us is to get guys healthy mentally and physically.

Christopher Hill

We know we are ready to sit down and negotiate and try to finish this thing. But the question is what (North Korea) has done during that one month,

Craig Bruce

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

Taurean Green

We are not finished yet. We are still on a mission.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Ali Babacan

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Steve Conroy

We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.

Ken Mayland

We are not there yet. I think anything north of 83 percent, we could see price pressures.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Elton Brand

We wanted to go undefeated, but it's not realistic to win every game,

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

Maira Kalman

who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.

Issa Rae

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Paul Samuelson

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Patrick Rafter

You've got to be realistic.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Eric Ripert

As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Bill Carmody

Yeah, it's tough to win on the road.

Doug Miller

We'll never really know what went down. This is a tough situation.

Pat McMahon

We're not used to this and don't like it one bit. It's a very long and a very tough day.

Bill Fetters

Well, they always give us a tough game.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.

Julie Clark

We have a tough schedule, ... But we have a tough team, we should be strong.