Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

Warren Giles

A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Marc Chandler

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

Rob Bennett

The PC makers are going to have to make their own decision how they're going to handle this based on their own business needs. It's not something that Microsoft can dictate.

Harry Forbes

The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based on that philosophy.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Constance Marie

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Constantin Brancusi

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

David Friedman

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

Dennis Ross

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Richard Rohr

Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.

Scott Weiss

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

Christopher Knight

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

John Rogers

We are currently working on a more powerful modeling tool...to determine how one can generate a phase mask to produce a desired 3d structure. With this type of tool we will be able to more fully exploit the power of this patterning approach.

Lea Barrett

We are currently undergoing a very intensive review of our special education program.

Priscilla Presley

There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.

J. Taylor

We are currently two hundred thousand dollars over goal for the Meyer wellness center.

Brian Jones

We are currently over the Sahara Desert. We are positioning ourselves to enter the Gulf Stream.

Joseph Cohen

We are currently advising a moderate overweight, with an emphasis on oil services and a small number of integrated producers,

Keith Wyness

We are looking at a number of different striking options and we are currently reviewing them all,

Charles Hazlewood

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Lindsay Williams

We prepared really well for this game. We have been looking forward to it all season. Last time they got a lot of points off offense rebounds and we worked on stopping that.

Troy Gentile

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Tatiana Navka

We did well for today and we're looking forward to the Olympics.

Maria Lefler

We had a nice win Saturday. We're looking forward to getting back into league.

Reggie Miller

When were on Lifetime working together, Cheryl gave me a lot of insight. It was then that I starting thinking that this was something I could do sometime down the line ... This is an opportunity I'm really looking forward to.

Paul Lancaster

When you're starting one senior and the rest underclassmen, it's something to look forward to. This year was a pleasant surprise.

David Noel

We still feel like this is a big-time game. We've been looking forward to this all season.

Donny Osmond

Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert Langdon.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Evangeline Lilly

Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

Elaine Stritch

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

Eartha Kitt

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

Chelsea Clinton

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

Shannon McSweeney

The pipe is hard as a rock. They were able to practice on it (Wednesday) even after all the rain.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Fadel Gheit

Investors need to think first, and not put money randomly into oil stocks,

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Brian Reynolds

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'

John Bollinger

Investors are now realizing that their (worst fears) were overblown.

Nick Angilletta

Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back.

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.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

Webb Simpson

One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

Constance Marie

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Allan Pope

We play nine people and try to wear down our opponents. That's what we did when I was at Pine Tree.

Trent Reznor

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Luciano Vincenzoni

Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.

Lupe Fiasco

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.

Stephen Ames

Tiger played exceptionally well, It was a rough nine for Tiger.

Theresa Grentz

We had nine unforced turnovers. They were long lanky and quick to the ball.

Jesse Jackson

We're not going to have an oil war.

Dick Cheney

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

Dick Cheney

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dear Abbey

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

David Sowerby

We're long on autos, short on oil stocks.

Roland Guidry

We still have a lot of oil in the water.

Lynn Reaser

Today was a relief rally; it was an oil price relief story,

Richard Bove

Treasury prices have been rising and oil is up and down,

Mike Erfert

You do know you've got a vehicle down there, so you know there's oil and gasoline.

Louis Navellier

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

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Adi Godrej

You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Mark Sullivan

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

Ed Smith

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

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tim Rocks

For the low-cost producers, they are very profitable now, at (steel) prices that are probably not going to fall.

Michael A. Stackpole

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

James Murdoch

We don't rule out any pricing or promotional initiatives.

Keith Lichtman

The pricing was unbelievable, just when you think there is no such thing as a steal in New York.

David Larcher

The pricing that we got . . . was just so irrational.

Paul Ballew

When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs.

Stephany Sofos

It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world.

David Robertson

The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be.

David Kerr

A lot of sellers are still pricing to the higher-end and their properties are still sitting there, and they're not considering realistic offers.

Ray Waddell

Promoters are providing more value. Rather than discounting, they're trying to get the pricing right.

David Cole

In a small vehicle, pricing is a pretty dicey type of thing.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Perry Florio

We got production from all of our lines.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Wayne Brown

We are seeing many gawkers on the interstate bridges,

Scott Ross

We're not seeing it as a new video.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

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?'

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

Whitney Hite

There are as many as six teams that can win it. We see us as one of those teams. It's wide open.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Randy Quisenberry

Yeah, we're together another time. I'm really surprised because I didn't think they'd let us stay with six (teams).

Allen Smith

We're not talking about something that will be in and out of here in six hours.

John Danowski

We are now the hunted. It wasn't like this six weeks ago.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

George Muller

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Bruce Poston

Where do you stop it? When do you start taking DNA? For what crime? And for what non-crime? Um, they're children.

Keith Busse

We're not going to go out there and start whacking heads.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Steve Ron

We're at least two years away from starting construction.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Linda Flohr

We have a must-win on Saturday, so that is what we are going to start working on.

Scott Jones

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Olivier Martinez

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.