Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Pastore

When I initially committed to joining 'Dancing with the Stars,' I didn't realize just how physically demanding it would be for me. Unable to put forth my best effort, I felt it appropriate to step aside and give someone else the opportunity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

Paul Pierce

We probably don't want to build a Grizzlies Stadium, because it'd be hard to put up and hard to get rid of, but aside from that, what would you like to see,

Sebastiao Salgado

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time.

John Podhoretz

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

Margaret D. Nadauld

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

Natalia Tena

I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

Alan Huffman

Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.

Shaun Maloney

Tommy Burns pulled me aside a few days before and told me there was a chance. I didn't want to think too much of it in case it didn't happen but thankfully it did. You always hope if you are doing well for one of the bigger clubs you will come into contention but this season there have been a lot of players doing well outside of the Old Firm.

Bob Iger

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

Desiree Rogers

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

Natalie Massenet

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

Fareed Zakaria

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

Francia Raisa

My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

Eric Andre

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

Chad Hurley

Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.

Glenn Greenwald

We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they were actually doing anything wrong. We know with certainty that the U.S. Government has detained and publicly branded as 'terrorists' people they knew at the time were innocent.

Pamela Anderson

I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

Nick Hanauer

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

Mary Walker

We recognize that there are devices people already own that need to be connected, as well as connecting with future devices.

Pierre Omidyar

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Victor Batista

We have to work on starting hard from the beginning. We've been focused on connecting with the setter on offense. We need to dominate in the middle.

Rory Stewart

I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.

Harlan Coben

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

Todd Burns

We will actually energize the project in June. That means we will be connecting it with the rest of the transmission grid.

Kimberly Walton

Users with infected workstations connecting to their corporate IT network can spread the virus to the corporate environment.

Stephen Colvin

The point of doing the lounges is another way of connecting with our readers and for readers to connect with the Maxim brand,

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Tim Floyd

We probably played the way our preseason prognostications were. We're not that bad. They were really focused on defense. They didn't let us do anything.

Marcus Hall

When game time comes along, I think we'll be focused and ready. We take pride in this and want to win every game we play. We've still got a lot left to prove; we want to go out and get a 30-point victory ourselves.

Robert Vaden

We're not going to get too focused on how many points he scores; there is still a game that needs to be played.

Paul Alioto

We did some things with our half-court offense that we haven't done all year. It just seems like we're more focused for the playoffs.

Paul Otellini

We are heads-down focused on ramping the Pentium 4,

Rod Barnes

We are going to work hard and be focused and ready to play.

Nnamdi Asomugha

We're not going to be too quick to get all excited. We know it's a long season and anything can happen but as long as we stay focused throughout the way and we remain patient, we can be successful. It's when we start getting outside of ourselves and thinking we're this or thinking we're that, that's when things can get chaotic.

Alan Moore

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Fareed Zakaria

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Brooke Shields

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Carly Fiorina

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Don Cornelius

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Jack Abramoff

The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.

Ashley Howard

People have noticed what has been achieved, and will try to lure Chris. We will try to keep him.

Mitch Glenn

Look at that lure in the water. See that tail go up and down?

Anthony Zinni

I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

Steve Howard

It's the lure of the Old West. We've thought for years that this would be something to promote that.

David Black

If I can lure him away from academia, I'd be delighted.

Rudyard Kipling

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

Emma Watson

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Elizabeth Warren

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Janet Callison

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Brian Harvey

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

David Steinberg

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

David H. Murdock

I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

Dennis Christopher

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

Mildred Ellison

Now teachers and principals at our schools can go up there for the training because it's just amazing.

Mark Skousen

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

Dieter Zetsche

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

Breaux Greer

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

Richard Bayer

Whoever mentions salary first is in the weaker position.

Gene Tierney

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Joe DiMaggio

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

Howard Stern

I don't talk about my salary.

Jerry Buss

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Neal Boortz

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

Teemu Selanne

This schedule is unbelievable. I don't know what kind of Superman you have to be to stay healthy.

Allard Beutel

We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

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.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.