Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

Manny Acta

We had a window up until yesterday and it's just been shut. We support his decision, stand behind him - family comes first. And we're going to have to move on with what we have.

Bob Hill

When the minutes behind him aren't what they need to be, I don't have much choice.

Kylie Minogue

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

Thomas Dolby

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

Thomas Dolby

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.

Tina Brown

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.

Brad Kullman

We're glad to have it behind us. I hate going through the hearings. We're glad we got it done with Felipe.

Donald Anderson

We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.

Robert Anderson

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Evan Katz

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

Stephane Dujarric

We've relayed our concerns to them and as I said, it's our duty to speak up to them when we think that the framework they're talking about doesn't meet electoral standards. When there is a contradiction on two different interpretations within one text that would become an issue.

Mark Klein

We share a lot of the same concerns many of our employees have. The immigration process is broken, and we need true solutions to it.

Thomas Frank

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Thomas R. Cech

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Jim Allchin

We're just trying to be responsive to their concerns and also be forthright about where we are in terms of being a few weeks late for quality.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Gene Sperling

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

Fadel Gheit

Losing the Saudi oil would immediately shock the U.S. economy to the worst level in decades,

Loesje

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy

Evan Olsen

We want the economy to be strong, but we don't want it to be too strong because we want the Fed to come to the end of their rate-hiking cycle.

Benjamin Disraeli

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Barry Hyman

The psychology is just not there for the economy to make any substantial move until we get through the Fed meeting. There's really no selling pressure, it's just tremendous volatility.

Calvin Coolidge

Inflation is repudiation.

Susan Hering

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

David Ricardo

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

David Hyde Pierce

There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

David Horowitz

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

David Hockney

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

David Draiman

Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

David Brin

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Rasheed Wallace

We were already up big, so I'm thinking that's why he did it, to get his teammates to stand up and rally off of that. It didn't work.

Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Suriyasai Katasila

The rally will go on and we won't stop unless we win.

Jim Haslett

I think this team will rally around something like this. I really do.

David Briggs

This recent rally may have legs, but we're still on a downtrend.

Lucius Thomas

But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.

Kate Warne

We wouldn't have seen such a strong rally if we hadn't seen most of it in Nortel.

Clark Yingst

We would characterize today's rally in the tech sector as an oversold bounce.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Tate Casey

Shannon (Desmond) is just phenomenal. When it's a big game, she seems to step up and get it done for us.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

Richard Lobb

But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

Tom Bentz

There are some signs that things are getting better.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Amy Cutts

This is a slowing down to what I think of as good, sustainable levels.

Dan Foster

They've been successful in slowing down the process.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Mark Reinhardt

It's about how little he's going to show you. You're waiting for the big image, the payoff, and he's slowing you down to think about how we see.

David Stiff

Things have also been slowing down a little in Boston.