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.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Eric Fellner

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

Edward Hoagland

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.

Connie Britton

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

Don Everly

That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Ismail Haniya

We have left the door open for the other brothers who have not yet decided, or who have decided not to join.

Ferid Murad

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Frances McDormand

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Frances McDormand

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Tom Brokaw

I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles?

Talia Shire

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

Leila Janah

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Neil Tennant

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

Michael Myers

We have talked a lot about getting a new beginning, ... We don't ever want to be apart. We want to end our careers here.

Ludwig von Mises

The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.

Natalie Zea

I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

Peter Roskam

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

David Perry

Unlike most viruses, which have some financial objective, such as stealing Internet-banking passwords or using the victim's PC to send spam, this worm is purely malicious. It is as if its creators just want people to sit up and take notice of them.

Mary Quant

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.

Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Steve Niles

That says a lot about Sam Raimi. He's kept me in the loop the entire time. Especially doing 'Spider-Man,' he realized the importance of working with the creators and the fans.

Dana Brunetti

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.

Anthony Burgess

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

Warren Littlefield

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Terry Collins

We had to stop doing what we were doing in the middle of the job because it looked like we might be forced out by eminent domain. Now that it looks like we're going to be here for a while, we don't mind spending the money.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Malcolm Arnold

Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received the Distinguished Musician Award.

Craig Brown

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.

Adam Clarke

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Kevin Curry

I wouldn't really expect them to use power of eminent domain.

Douglas Aiken

I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.

Ayelet Zurer

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Dana Berliner

The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.

Ben Horowitz

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

Leonard Boswell

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Arthur Conan

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

Tom Graves

Our 23 million patriots ? our veterans of World War II and Korea ? are rarely recognized other than on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Yet these men and women are as patriotic as those who founded this nation.

Victor Koo

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

Ehren Kruger

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

Niklas Zennstrom

We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg.

Bill Bryson

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Tim Gray

Variety was founded in 1905 and used street lingo,

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Nick Park

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Todd Lowe

Vampires are pretty frightening. Knowing they can 'glamor' you is pretty weird. And you shake hands or hug them and they're cold. I wouldn't like that.

Anne Robinson

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Deborah Lewis

We're lost, not knowing what the next day is going to bring.

John Cannon

We have no way of knowing that at this time.

Scott Anderson

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Greek Proverbs

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Brad Pitt

I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

Jeremy Taylor

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Michelle Finch

We know that the losses are in the millions.

Pam Borton

We have two weeks of practice to get things done. Hopefully, this loss will make us better.

Don Maestri

We were having trouble scoring. So his loss didn't have as big an effect. We were missing a lot of shots that we normally make.

Dan Moser

You know what, if I saw a team with six losses I'd probably think we should go in and spank them.

Carl Duke

Unfortunately the loss prevention people didn't get to them in time.

Shane Doan

We don't have any room to lose. Every loss for us is huge.

Goeran Persson

We have lost so many -- a father, a mother, granddad, our little child, our small, small sister, my friend,

Lisa Brown

We have lost our way on our path. It is time to do things in a way that respects our spirit, our ancestors, and where we come from.

Tim Russert

We have lost one of our very, very best,

John Chernick

We'd like another chance; we lost to them at Amboy.

Jalen Rose

We are not getting it down. It's an embarrassment. We lost by 30 points at home.

Mike Nelson

Wasted possessions. We lost it because we had wasted opportunities.

Ricky Williams

Yeah, we made a bet. I lost the bet. I lost the bet.

Dave Forney

Those kind of get lost in the shuffle. He was there all night. He's been outstanding of late.

Zeke Jones

Unfortunately, we lost Dustin; he was never able to get his motor running, and that was disappointing for him.

Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Edward Everett

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Anton Chekhov

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Louise Gluck

Intense love always leads to mourning.

Maurice Sendak

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Anton Chekhov

Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.

Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

Edmund Burke

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

James Joyce

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Samuel Butler

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Jonathan Ive

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Pierce Brosnan

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Brad Salem

We still have the same (offensive) philosophy. We spread it out and put the weight on the quarterback's shoulders.

William Osler

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Ludwig von Mises

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Ludwig von Mises

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

Ludwig von Mises

An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Aristotle

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Nora Roberts

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

George Farquhar

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

Chris Carter

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.

Wyclef Jean

We produce, and we have producers we work with.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Nina Jacobson

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

Mindy Cohn

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

Maggie Wheeler

When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Earl Sweatshirt

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

English Proverbs

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

Mark DiCamillo

Voters are saying we need someone there who's not going to rock the boat.

Henry Spencer

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Dan Epstein

We're not talking about rocket science here. It's simple food, but it will be fast, fresh, and good.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

Alan Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Bill Hader

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Eric Ries

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.

Ira Glass

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Jack Johnson

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Carl Jung

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

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!