Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Doug Painter

The overwhelming bi-partisan support of this bill in both the Senate and House demonstrates Congress's ability to work together when it comes to protecting America's law-abiding businesses, in turn protecting thousands of jobs nationwide. Our industry sincerely thanks Sen. Larry Craig and Rep. Cliff Sterns for introducing this much-needed legislation and President Bush, who has continuously promoted legal reform in order to protect our nation's businesses and economy.

David Stern

I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

Chuck Zito

One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Bonnie Bassler

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

David Horsey

In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.

Dev Hynes

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Ranbir Kapoor

Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.

Bruce Lipton

What's very interesting is that when we look at human bodies, we look at our body as a singular entity when it turns out, no, if I could reduce us to a small size as the size of a cell and put you inside your body, rather than seeing a singular entity, what you would see is a metropolis with 50 trillion citizens.

Eugene O'Neill

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Eric Betzig

There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.

Ethan Zuckerman

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

Erik Estrada

National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.

Sean Sweeney

Some of our soccer has been a negative surprise for us, because there is so much geographic blocking.

Paul Harris

Money talks. They're targeting the spending in the industries and geographic constituencies that really matter.

Hank Smith

It's had a very, very rapid geographic range expansion.

Joe Mansueto

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Adrian McKinty

Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

Robert Martinez

We visited many temples and interviewed leaders. We took information from there and from the Internet and put it all together, taking into consideration the geographic area.

Neil Cross

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Howard Safir

We have not identified them as of this moment,

Julie Gerberding

We haven't identified anything about this strain that's different from strains in the other areas.

Craig Manning

We are getting better with every match, and performing better with every match. We have identified some things that we can do better, and we know what we can do to improve.

Leon Uris

You usually don't know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

Chris Noth

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

Greg Chappell

We have identified some bowlers, but at this stage we haven't been able to use them for various reasons.

Helen Arnold

We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.

Jill Paice

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

David Fincher

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

Enrique Garcia

We are not interested in that sort of stuff. We just want to identify the baby's parents.

Pat Nixon

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

Bonnie Reed

We need to identify those places where we could put large numbers of people.

Idina Menzel

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

Alan Brown

Would you identify the man in this picture?

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Kathryn Flicker

Megan had become a walking, talking piece of evidence. She knew him. She could identify him. He knew it, and he had to get rid of that threat. And so he killed.

Dennis Johnson

Lucas Oil? That has no meaning to me. I can't really identify with that. I don't know what Lucas Oil is.

Dave Barry

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

Dave Barry

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

David Murphy

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

Byron Katie

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Steven Wright

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

Bob Newhart

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

Bo Derek

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Eddie Murphy

I ain't never been in no cell that had a phone in it. Can I stay for a while? I ordered some pizza.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Alfred Eder

Tomorrow our biathletes will have a lot of problems because of this situation. But it is important that they run.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.