Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivek Wadhwa

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.

Abraham Lincoln

We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death, the like of which would never happen to Gen. Cass. Place stacks a thousand miles apart: he would stand stock still, midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time.

Chino Moreno

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

Chet Faker

I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.

Chet Faker

I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang - it was always about girls - that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.

Ellen Key

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

Elizabeth Warren

People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

Elizabeth Warren

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

David A. Bednar

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

Vince Vaughn

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Rebel Wilson

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

Dave Grohl

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Jim Les

We play in a major basketball conference. There are some awfully good players here. Some players who were snubbed a little bit at the higher schools, and they've got a chip on their shoulders.

Dave Forney

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

Jeff Schaffer

We played well. We're finally starting to come together. We've been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I can't fault them because they're playing hard and they're playing together, and that's what we're trying to accomplish.

Tre Kelley

We played all 40 minutes of that basketball game. We held them.

Cathy Inglese

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We played about a quarter and a half tonight. But we played the fourth quarter with some fight to get back into it. The shot Brand made late in the game was a big-time shot and he made it at a very critical time in the basketball game.

Bill Cosby

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Nancy Gibbs

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

Freddie Stroma

It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.

Fergus Henderson

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Jeffrey Kluger

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

Nancy Gibbs

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

Lauren Holmes

I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'

Nick Wechsler

There is part of me that will always feel wrong for any leading man-type, charming guy or whatever. I am not that guy. I am so weird. I say inappropriate things, and if I have any charm at all, it's in my utter lack of charm.

Plato

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

David Walton

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

Cristina Henriquez

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

Toni Trucks

Learning all the intricacies, all the nerd elements to 'Twilight' was really fun.

Bob Blackburn

We have lost some elements to the river. We just don't know what the water might do.

Leigh Brackett

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.

Neil Jordan

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

Alexandra Robbins

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

Ken Conway

We have always raised our levels of preparedness when hosting teams with elements of disappointing spectators, but in the Bulldogs case, history proves the problems are Sydney based.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Al Madrigal

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Thom Browne

Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.

Lia Ices

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Victoria Moran

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

Lisa Roth

We're known for our lime, our citrus. We are the citrus state. We should have a citrus Key lime pie. Georgia, they need to keep their pie over in Georgia.

Michael Marks

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Cliff Danley

Tiger is the key to validating your success. You can get nine of the top 10 players, but if you don't get him ...

Kerry Killinger

This is a landmark day for Washington Mutual and for our industry,

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Mike Leavitt

It is a triumph for collaborative science, ... This is a landmark achievement.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Minya Oh

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Kurt Cohen

We played well defensively. Obviously that was the difference.

Nick Price

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Brian Celio

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Randall Jarrell

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Frank Haith

We're not totally out of it. Obviously we need to win (today) and we need to go into the (ACC) tournament and win one and, maybe, two games. As much as (FSU is) playing for something, we have to understand we're playing for something, too.

Tom Glavine

We have a lot of expectations for ourselves, and obviously a lot of people have expectations of us. I can't think of a better way to start the year.

Alan Cohen

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

Dean Stanley

Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

William Shakespeare

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Ludwig von Mises

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

Ludwig von Mises

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Robert Kiyosaki

Passion is the beginning of success

William Shakespeare

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Baz Luhrmann

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Tim Sampson

This development is part of a regional transportation solution.

Bobbi Dunn

You're going to have to win at your own course, or you're not going to make it (into the regional tournament). Then you look at our region, and it's going to be a shootout, too.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Paula Deen

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!