Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Conant

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Edward Ruscha

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other.

Mark Wiley

This program gives each family the joy of completing a complex task together as well as a means of enjoying our marine resources. We guarantee a 100 percent success rate.

Pramod Mahajan

It is celebration time for us as we are completing 25 years of our political life.

Ken Betz

We have some other forensic evaluations that we're completing now. To say it's going to be done much earlier than that, I don't think that's going to happen.

Alan Curbishley

It has been a deliberate decision on my part to forget completing talks for now.

Mark Durkan

We are two months on from the IRA statement and 64 months on from the deadline for completing (weapons) decommissioning in the agreement. The scrapping of IRA weapons is long overdue. It needs to happen now without further delay. The longer the IRA strings this out, the more it damages the Good Friday agreement.

Kati Haycock

Having to take one brush-up course is not a big deal. But students who have to take two or three end up never completing anything in college, so it's something you want to fix.

Dore Gold

I think Israelis felt that by completing the withdrawal from Gaza, they had created an opportunity for peace for the Palestinians to seize upon. And what they saw was synagogues in flames, and that's something with a very ominous tone for the success of any future negotiations.

Michael Robertson

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

Donnell Barton

We did not write any punishment or punitive damages into the policy. Hopefully, we won't have to do that.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Howard Hertz

If you take all these companies, we're estimating damages of over $100,000.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Roe Hye

We determined that this is a grave misconduct that damages the foundation of science.

Paul Fletcher

We'll be seeking damages in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

Virginia Henley

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.

Rene Fasel

The only deadline that exists comes from the International Olympic Committee, which wants each federation to hand in rosters by the end of January.

Michelle Fontaine

We have always wanted there to be unfettered time for individuals to file these claims. The deadline serves no purpose.

Chris Hill

We don't have a real deadline (for possible NATO bombing) but things are going to get very tense in the next few days.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

Michael Collins

If you want to enter your car, the deadline is Saturday morning, ... We'll take registration from 10 a.m. to start judging cars.

Jaswant Singh

The hijackers had earlier said there would be no deadline, and there is no deadline from the hijackers,

Carole Hartley

We opened up Friday and we didn't stop all weekend.

Noam Chomsky

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Wendee Saintsing

We're leaving on Wednesday, so that gives us all day Thursday to go to practice and sit around. By the time Friday rolls around, (the trip) shouldn't have much of an effect.

O. J. Simpson

We'll play these two teams on Thursday and Friday before we travel back to Sydney and have a light gym session and rest.

Kurt Busch

Today's Friday and I'm fast. I don't know what to say. Usually, I'm 15th or so.

Mike Ballard

You know, it's not too different. Last year, I pitched in some Friday games. Friday, Saturday, Sunday -- it doesn't matter. All you have to do is just go out there and pitch.

Mark Comfort

Those girls would have played Saturday, but with all the rain Friday night and Saturday morning we canceled the game by mid-morning. I'm pleased with our progress thus far. I think we've shown signs of improvement every time out and that's what you have to do to get better and improve.

LaVonda Wagner

We are a better team today than we were yesterday or even a month ago, and I think we will be a better team Friday than today.

George Gero

We have a good rally going on because of what's going on in Saudi Arabia. It is Friday and nobody wants to be short the gold over the weekend, so up go all the metals.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Charles Sturt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Esai Morales

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Gary Pruitt

We plan to maintain, sustain and further the journalism at these newspapers.

Tracy Morgan

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Tamsin Greig

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Errol Morris

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

Dylan O'Brien

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

Trent Strickland

We probably need (Gray) to be 22 for 22. We all know that can't happen every night, and we're going to need different players to step up.

Chipper Jones

We pretty much got dominated. What happened (Monday) night was just incredible. I would've never thought that could happen to us.

Terry Gilliam

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

Farnaz Fassihi

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

Dick Cheney

It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.

Dick Cheney

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

Dick Cheney

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

Dick Cheney

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Dick Cheney

The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

Dick Cheney

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Dick Cheney

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Peter Jackson

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

Kabir Bedi

Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

Willie Robertson

Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Steve Sullivan

We had a lot of positives this year, but this is no longer acceptable.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Nostradamus

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Rich Marcello

We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done.

Audrie Pattenn

Three months may seem like a long time, but really, it's not enough time.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Melina Kanakaredes

When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Shelli Rushing

We'll have another public workshop here in three months or so to start talking about getting into more specifics about the plan. We're supposed to wrap up the plan by the end of the year.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Ferran Adria

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Alan Cohen

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Alan Cohen

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Agnes Obel

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Russ Oaks

There are other projects with pressing needs that have taken priority at this point in time.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Gary Jones

Long before 'having it all' was a statement that women made, Vivi was that woman.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Cat Stevens

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Gary Zukav

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Tim Berners-Lee

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

Eddie Van Halen

I boil the strings so they stretch.

Frank Herbert

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Jules Shear

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Ivan Reitman

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Bertie Ahern

We must look to the day when loyalist weapons are removed from the equation,

Greg Hellhake

We have a lot of different weapons out here.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.