Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

David Buck

Lean manufacturing is at the core of our strategy to support our growth. You have to take waste out of everything. We only want to do things that our customers are willing to pay for.

Greg Sampson

We did nothing. We had no money. We had no core people. We have taken what's in our guts and said this seems to be the right thing to do.

Vin Blaine

We have a short time to prepare and I'm yet to select a final squad, but I'm expecting that the core group of the Under-20 girls will form the senior squad... the other girls who will join are experienced enough to fit in.

John Rader

We're ground zero at the debate in this country over off-reservation gaming and reservation gaming. We're at the core of a much larger battle.

Renee James

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

Christian Coughlin

Many of our core items are made fresh. Our chicken, eggplant and veal parmesan are all made fresh daily. Our lasagna is made fresh every day. We take great pride in making everything fresh.

Michael Sheldon

So far, we haven't seen a major increase in core inflation, all we've seen is a sharp rise in energy prices. It seems logical that higher energy prices should start to feed through to higher inflation.

Laura DiDio

With the new products, Sun is targeting about 20 percent of the market that has high-end servers. But they have a core constituency firmly in their camp.

Natalie Massenet

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

Tom Slater

When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he remembered that, and he called us.

John Oates

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

Dan Mitchell

When I made the recording, I knew I wanted to just donate every dollar it earned. I had decided to do it that way before I recorded a single note.

Jim Webb

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

Joe Miller

We needed a warehouse to store detail supplies, and we just decided to make it work for us.

Jim Allchin

We needed a few more weeks. We decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies.

John Ellinger

We're looking at players. Players have to decide if pro soccer is in their future.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Robert Garrison

We did fairly well considering we've only had most of the girls for about a week and the Texas schools were in their third or fourth meet.

Pansy Tlakula

The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.

Mark Goddard

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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.

Matt Johnson

Louis had a phenomenal final four defensively. It seemed like he fed on it as the game went on. He made it hard for Jon to get the ball.

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.

John Shaughnessy

The reality is that if the Fed raises interest rates by a quarter of a point all that's doing is serving to keep inflationary pressures under control.

Stewart Udall

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Dee Hock

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Al Gore

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power...

Sun Microsystems

We're going after revenue growth and customers. We're all about sharing.

Jim Clement

We're looking at growth here. We're not saying, 'No, we don't want development. My guess is it's going to happen.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

David Icke

The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

David Dinkins

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

David Brin

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

Benedict Cumberbatch

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Beatrix Potter

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

Audrey Hepburn

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.

Mack Brown

We did not have to show very much from a scheme point of view, ... and that's what we wanted.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Cara Castronuova

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Bob Garfield

We have a point of view on most stories that we do, but we're not ideological, ... We're not a show where everything comes from a left-wing perspective.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Alex Newell

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,