Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Mark Shapiro

The only fulfillment I'll allow myself is when we're playing again in October and hoisting pennants above Jacobs Field. We can't stop now.

Chris Patten

The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.

Eliot Brenner

The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He then reported that the Air Force plane passed 500 feet above him.

Valentina Tereshkova

There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

Vladimir Potanin

To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

Becky G

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Douglas Conant

I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.

Ray Lauwers

We played an awesome first half. We can't play any better than we did in the first half. We did a good job of taking the things they gave us.

Steven Sinofsky

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

Katee Sackhoff

Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.

Lauren Lapkus

Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

Al Horford

We are going to the Final Four. Oh man, it's an awesome feeling. I don't have words to explain it.

Renee Sonnenberg

We had some laughs, went to the Japanese Village for an awesome meal. We relaxed, spend some time together, it was good.

Anne Wojcicki

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

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.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Jose Gil

We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just aren't comfortable. I'm plain tired of watching us lose in the first or second round.

Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Becky G

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

Wendee Warg

We played with much more intensity tonight than we did last night (a 49-15 loss to Union Grove). We kept our heads in the game, and that kept us in the game. I think we played with confidence.

Greg Prospero

We played a lot of soccer, and sometimes you get tired, but you still have to keep your head up.

Don Zilverberg

We probably AI a minimum of 300 head a year before turning out clean-up bulls.

B. B. King

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

Greg Adkins

We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. If we do, we'll make school history.

will.i.am

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

Najib Razak

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Andrew Vachss

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Homer

Internet! Is that thing still around?

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Tanya Harris

Unless you have Internet access, a lot of people are left completely out of the loop. We want to let them know what their options are. We just want people to vote.

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Bobby Jindal

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Alan Cohen

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Alan Cohen

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Walter Benjamin

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Bill Owens

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Frank Gillett

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Alan Alda

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Daria Werbowy

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Ken Perkins

We don't have an opinion or more importantly a vote one way or another. We're not thrilled with it ... but it's essentially up to the analysts.

Jerry Baker

We are just starting that process. Tom and I have already had some discussions. We'll have some more. He's on the road recruiting right now. We'll sit down and we'll look at the year. He'll give me his opinion on what worked and what didn't work. I'll give him my opinion.

Anita Borg

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Jon Rubin

We'll try to get as many points of view into each story so the viewer can take away their own opinion as to what transpired.

Barbara Thompson

We are disappointed in the result and are studying the opinion carefully.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

James Rollins

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

Louis Orr

You shouldn't have to put the weight of the world on your shoulders every game. It should just happen.

Bruce Springsteen

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Jackie Chan

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

Eric Church

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Elvis Costello

Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.