Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Jim Wallis

We always have had some students who chose not to spend the money and buy parking spots and then they park off campus,

John Sergeant Wise

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.

Milton Pedraza

Wealthier consumers are online more than most other segments. And online you're always looking to buy from a trusted name.

Kevin Lynch

You can't go to the store and buy 'the Engagement Platform.'

Ludwig von Mises

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

Stephanie Williams

When I make a soup, instead of having to go to the store and buy the produce, it's already dried so I just reach my hand in the jar and throw it in. So it takes me five minutes to prepare a soup which is really healthy and is more or less a gourmet meal.

Eric Funk

When I buy my soft drink Ill feel really good about that.

Michael Saunders

When the market was so hot, people would buy anything just to have their dream, their place in the sun.

Jim Press

We're looking at maybe 4, 5 percent growth, fueled by some of our new products. Next year should be another good year for everybody.

Alexandra Paul

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Alan Cranston

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

Erin Rogers

There is a lot of different fuel technologies that will be researched.

Travie McCoy

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Connie Brown

We're headed home this week, ... if we can get enough fuel to get home.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Micky Arison

Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs.

Al Yankovic

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Alanis Morissette

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Alanis Morissette

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

William Cleaver

Most times when you only get that many yards, you lose. We have to pick it up.

Michael Doyle

Most of the students pick it up as upperclassmen.

Mohammed Jassim

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Bill Hybels

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Bret Easton Ellis

Price. You're priceless.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Stephen Davis

We know we'll be successful with this operation. The only question is the price we'll pay.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

James Anderson

I think a target for 280-290 will put us in a relatively safe position.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.