Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

Mike May

The overall electronic entertainment industry is a big competitor to the sports industry. If it's not video games, it's a DVD or television or the Internet. We're just filled with things that amuse us and consume lots of time.

Bong Joon-ho

The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.

Victoria Hanley

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.

Patch Adams

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

Abraham Lincoln

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Frederic William Farrar

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Neil MacGregor

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.

Orison Swett Marden

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

Sarah Klaassen

We were in striking distance most of the game, so maybe that's something positive that we can take away. But your immediate reaction after the game as a competitor is that you don't like to lose.

John Desko

We know Joe's a competitor and he can be intense. I'm sure he'll be a great fit for West Point.

Fred Hassan

We remain determined to become a high-performance competitor for the long term -- and over the past several quarters we have made steady progress toward that goal.

John Schwan

Webster is always a fierce competitor and they're playing at home.

Calvin Baisley

When he had to be good, he was good. He got better as the game went on. He's a great competitor - that's his No. 1 trait.

David Poile

We know what kind of a person and competitor he is. He will do everything in his power to get back on the ice.

Alan Thompson

We know what a tough competitor Linda is and we have seen what Libby can do at the world championships.

Cheri Blauwet

I race to race; to feel the wind at my face and to feel the thrill of passing another passing competitor 10 feet from the finish. I don't race to give myself a pat on the back.

Peter Warrick

The hard thing is, even when you're winning, sometimes I go home and feel kind of upset. Yeah, we won the game, but I feel like I wasn't really a part of it. It's hard when you're just watching, especially when you're a competitor like I am.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Virginia Postrel

Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it.

Christine Ebersole

'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Lamar Alexander

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

Kate Warne

Where consumers are likely to feel the pinch more is at the pump, where gasoline prices are likely to rise.

Noreena Hertz

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

Sandro Veronesi

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

Caroline Dhavernas

At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.

Denis O'Hare

I've been watching 'Lost' on DVD recently. I keep thinking, 'Where are those actors now?' Nobody knows.

Catherine Hardwicke

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Derek Jeter

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Bill Gates

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Michael Moore

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

Nicolas Cage

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

George Schweitzer

In the past, we have had street teams giving out show premiere DVDs and things like that, but this is the first time we are doing these big-scale events.

Brian Graden

In the past, if 'Laguna Beach' was a hit, you wait a few months and put out the DVD and then make sure you've got some information on MTV.com -- but all of that was very ancillary, ... Our proposition is that it's not ancillary. In fact, it's reinforcing, all feeding each other.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Tom Golisano

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

Nadia Ali

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

Brendon Urie

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Mike Gonzales

With the electronic age, we wanted a way to help keep our members informed on what is going on.

Carl Thayer

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Gary Numan

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Beeban Kidron

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

Ray Charles

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Tyler Hilton

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

Ving Rhames

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Kelly McCreary

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Jack Johnston

We're not going out as much -- eating, entertainment -- we're trying to get rid of those kind of things.

Eric Snow

To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.

Helen Oyeyemi

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

Ivana Milicevic

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Foster Friess

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

Scott Walker

We had some guys who really picked it up for us. I was very pleased with the way the guys filled in around the edges.

Ambrose Burnside

So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.

C. Day Lewis

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Josh Byrnes

We had a need, and we hope it's filled for several years now.

Scott Warner

We have a whole room filled with those,

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Nina Garcia

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

Tony Juniper

We are going to war with the nuclear industry -- but with a positive not a negative campaign.

will.i.am

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

will.i.am

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Christo

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

NeNe Leakes

I'm not a real makeup girl - you see me in lots of makeup on 'Housewives,' but I'm really all about skin. Take it from me: Wash, moisturize, and never neglect the neck.

Valentina Zelyaeva

We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

Tinashe

I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

Jamie Sale

We have lots of time for a honeymoon, and we're always together.

Bob Mitchell

There is just no prospect of having an accident. We've been doing this kind of thing now for nearly 40 years and have lots of fly-bys of planetary bodies.

Ivan Radenovic

We know that they play slow basketball. We have to put lots of pressure on them and keep it like that for 40 minutes.

IdaRose Sylvester

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already,

Michael Todd

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma, ... It's actually scared me quite a bit.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Peter Steele

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Jerry Seinfeld

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Nikki Reed

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

Stephan James

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

Larry King

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

Wilson Bethel

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

Pete Rose

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Michael Klepper

When you're live on television ?you've got to be very concise, very brief, and very direct,

Alan Hansen

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Al Michaels

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Louis C. K.

There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

Eartha Kitt

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Tyler Oakley

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Mark Cuban

Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

Charles Stross

I do not click on random youtube videos.

Camille Paglia

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

Dean Cain

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

David Brenner

We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

Bengie Molina

When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.

Chad Hurley

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation,