Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

Shaw Wu

When I look at the way the company's positioning itself . . . it's really turning more into a digital-entertainment company than anything.

Terry Semel

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network, ... We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Dennis Mullen

We're serving as two masters here. We're the master of people who want to invest and the master of people who need investments. If we have an opportunity to invest in a company outside the Rochester region, we will take that opportunity.

Susan Smith

We're seeing this trend in the manufacturing industry as a whole. The steel industry, as far back in the process as you can go, was one of the first to feel the stress of all this. Heavy manufacturing continues to fall out throughout the country. This company is no exception.

Paul Clausen

We're looking at it as a positive thing. It'll be nice to be working with a company that's Vancouver-based.

Dean Haskell

We're concerned that McDonald's may not be able to sustain these levels of comparable sales gains over the next 8 to 9 months. We expect sales growth going forward to be in the mid single-digits of between 4 to 6 percent as the company enters a period of tougher comparisons from a year ago.

Ken Johnson

We're concerned about not only how Sam ran the company, but also how Harlan ran the company.

Reid Hoffman

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook - it sounds trivial, but people matter.

Charles Jencks

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Lee Hall

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

Carl Hiaasen

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Jim Clyburn

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Jim Jarmusch

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

Connie Maina

We're having discussions with them, We welcome an open dialogue with appropriate Kenyan authorities and look forward to a positive resolution.

Abdul Sattar

We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time,

Susan Reeves

We're in dialogue with with the government of Chad, consortium members and other relevant parties.

Jenji Kohan

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Jennifer Lawless

What we do need to do though is look at what's working in public and chartered schools and start engaging different kinds of experts to integrate that policy into the public school system.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Jeff Swanagan

We want to be the world's most engaging aquarium.

Pete Marino

He's a fun an engaging personality. He has the right tone and voice to match the spirit of this event.

Wilford Kale

He is, to me, a very likable individual with a very engaging and outgoing personality. I think that - and the fact that everybody gets a honeymoon - has given him a remarkable beginning.

Richard Castellini

It is a little juvenile, but it is a fun way of engaging in the brand.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Charles Darwin

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Charles Darwin

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.