Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Curley

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

David Walton

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Deborah Eisenberg

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Valentina Tereshkova

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Barack Obama

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

Noreena Hertz

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

Cassandra Clare

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Tom Sturridge

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

Carlos Ghosn

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

Tony Fernandes

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Geoffrey Moore

When I go meet with a company that's No. 1--a Microsoft or Cisco or SAP--one of the things I hear a lot is how mean it is out there. Being No. 1 these days means you become the natural target.

Lars Larsen

Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

Larry Dixon

Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.

Kathryn Minshew

When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.

John Davidson

We had a pretty strong run up in anticipation of the earnings season. But because of that run, if any company reports declining results or results that are less than what was expected, you're going to see a strong reaction.

Larry Langford

We had a pregnant woman complaining of shortness of breath, and another woman who was asthmatic, who were also transported to Little Company of Mary. And there were several other people who were treated on the scene but not transported, about a half dozen people.

Chris Snyder

We are going to work with the company to help displaced workers find other jobs.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Big Sean

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

Bayard Taylor

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

Desiree Rogers

I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

Nina Garcia

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

Francois Cluzet

What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't really want to use the dialogue but prefers to act through my body, and then sometimes when I have a script, I look and kind of throw away the dialogue and I just look at how I can expressive it through my body.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Al Garza

We are not leaving until relieved by the military.

Gabriel Pendas

The only reason that we're leaving is to respect the wishes of the family.

Mahmoud Abbas

Tomorrow (Tuesday) they will start leaving part of the West Bank.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Edmond de Goncourt

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edith Wharton

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Eddie Long

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me

Deborah King

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

Dan Kaminsky

We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

Chris LeTocq

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Bill Gates

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Bill Gates

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Bill Gates

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Bill Gates

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Bill Gates

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Bill Gates

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Bill Gates

The Internet? We are not interested in it

Kate O'Mara

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Michelle MacLaren

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.

Oliver Kahn

I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Marlon Wayans

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Ed Schafer

You're not producing a whole lot of children.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Tony Robinson

There's some truth to it. We do a lot of talking but we aren't producing anything.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

James Inhofe

I am a product of the draft.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Shawn Amos

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.