Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Evans

My first foray into Evan's late-career albums, and it's even better than I had hoped for. Eddie Gomez on bass, and Evans even plays electric piano on a couple of bonus tracks. But the real meat is the original album. It's heading where it needs to be, but there are moments of surprisingly upbeat swinging, as well - and a nice take on 'Theme From M*A*S*H' ('Suicide Is Painless'). Once you've gone through the original trio recordings, you're going to be hooked for all you can get by Evans.

Beth Murrin

She had good bonus highs, which are important. She dances and she plays it up to the crowd.

Todd Pletcher

Six furlongs is a better distance for him, and he's a New York-bred - he runs for bonus money.

Kendra Todd

She's just a classy, brilliant woman. Working with her was certainly a bonus and a pleasant surprise -- I learned a lot,

Mark Manning

We were hoping we were going to get bonus points there, ... Jacob went out there and got the job done.

Rick Hendrick

Ricky and I talked about it and designed a shop and put our offices in there. We got Brian Whitesell, who was the architect, really, of the 24 and 48 coming together and made him team manager. When we put the two teams together 5 and 25, we promised him a bonus when they won their first race.

John Riley

People would stick around to the end of the year to get the bonus then quit after Christmas,

Michael Trevino

Cash bonus and compensation overall is down and is a reflection of earnings of the previous year. These types of compensations are tied to company performance.

Tony Chukwueke

Because ONGC wanted more equity, which the Koreans wanted to consider, our signature bonus was delayed.

Lisa Bluder

Like any good cook, you go back in the kitchen and you revamp your recipe and you take what you have on hand and you still make up something pretty good. And I think after spending the last two months with the women on our team, I think that with certainty we can whip up something pretty good.

Michael Ryan

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

Octavia E. Butler

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Carl Sandburg

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Tom Fox

We're happy to provide habitat for fish and wildlife species, ... But we wanted some regulatory certainty and stability.

Sophocles

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

Aristotle

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

Jim Fehrenbach

Obviously, we're starting to get the news from Katrina on the real situation, and the market is viewing that as not as bad. What's really driving it is when some refiners will come on line. That kind of certainty gives the market a platform to move higher.

Sarwono Kusumaatmadja

Many parties have complained about a lack of legal certainty with regard to investment permits. We need more detailed and clearer regulations.

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.

Warren Littlefield

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

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.'

Dana Brunetti

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

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.

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.

John Kline

The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.

David Ricardo

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

Frederic Bastiat

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

Clayton Jolley

We always encourage the owners to do it themselves. We don't really want to mow any lots.

Debra Brown

We also target youth in schools as a preventive method. We talk to them about safe and unsafe behaviors. We encourage them to speak to their friends who may be on runaway status about practicing safe behaviors and finding a safe place so they won't be victimized on the street.

Denise Juneau

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Denis Waitley

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Denis Waitley

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

Al Gore

I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

Irwin Redlener

We're seeing tremendous pressure at all levels to get ready for an imminent hurricane season, but on the federal level it seems frantic, not thoughtful.

Pam Compton

Making good use of federal databases helps state programs immensely, but local information is invaluable. These are people who know these communities, they live and work there.

Tisha Tallman

Legislation introduced in Georgia is in violation of federal law.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Mike Johanns

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Bob White

Since these are federal dollars, there's a whole lot of paperwork involved.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Jennifer Warnes

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Suzanne Isidor

When I look at it on paper, it can look scary, but watching them play every day gives me confidence.

Suzanne Isador

When I look at it on paper it can be scarry that we're so inexperienced. Seeing them play every day gives me a lot of confidence.

Tina Brown

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

Mick Foley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Lawrie McKinna

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

Cameron Russell

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

Lark Voorhies

I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

David Henry Hwang

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

David Hobson

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

David Brooks

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

Ben Stiller

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Jeff Evans

One of the things that spoke to me in hiring these ladies is that their No. 1 priority is to have fun. They want to use the program as a stepping stone to get to the next level of competitive softball. Lori has been there, so she knows what it takes to get there.

Kevin Madden

I don't have an opinion of what they're doing. The practice of encouraging trade associations or private-sector firms with regard to their hiring practices is not something this office directs or is interested in directing.

Brad D. Smith

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Buddy Allen

I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along. We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along, ... We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Jim Hendry

None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.

Igor Ivanov

must be searched for through dialogue, including with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Giri Cherukuri

Many of the large-cap tech stocks, including Intel, are undervalued. Any move strengthening their position in the market, makes their stocks more attractive.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it,

Anthony Burke

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Liliana Rambo

We're looking at being able to increase the number of on-street spaces. We're working with the public works department.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Bill Swank

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

Jason Calacanis

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Ted Falgout

Monday morning, take every penny in your wallet and invest in oil.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.