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?'

Source Unknown

The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, ''Let's have ham and eggs.'' The pig then replied, ''That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.''

Emma McLaughlin

Between finishing emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his chicken nuggets and my dog to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.

Rachel Nichols

I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

Triple H

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.

Katherine Center

I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.

Lawrence Sanders

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

Lisa Scottoline

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

Walter Lorenz

We served scrambled eggs and steak once in a while. There were powdered potatoes; we didn't have to peel potatoes. A lot of seafood and chicken once in a while. No rice. We got up at 6 a.m. and were done by 4 or 5 p.m.

Larry Foote

We still have a problem with vegetables. All he loves is pizza and chicken wings. His diet's got to be a lot better than that. We sit at the table until he eats his vegetables. I'll say, 'Well, I'll wait you out.' Literally, he'll sit there all night.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Benjamin Spock

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Brandon Flowers

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Dennis Christopher

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

Eric Betzig

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Dwayne Johnson

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

Malcolm Gladwell

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

Gerard Sullivan

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

Linda Jay

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

Peter Cardillo

We're at the end of the quarter so there is some window dressing. The focus is now totally on earnings, and this earnings season looks as though it will be strong if not stronger than last quarter.

Alan Ackerman

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

Tom Schoewe

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Brittany Murphy

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Dallas Roberts

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

Steven Sinofsky

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

V. E. Schwab

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

John Brady

The outstanding ones are usually gone. You have to start over with freshman and sophomore talent.

Kevin Campbell

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

Brandon Flowers

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

Scott Sanderson

We practiced on Monday, but we didn't practice very long because I think it's important that we have fresh legs because this game, going over there, is going to be so emotional.

Vivica A. Fox

I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.

Nimrat Kaur

These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you. And when you're fresh off the boat, and new in Bombay, you want those kind of things! They are magical fables. You want to, somewhere, be a part of it, something people will read about. But reality is different.

Michael Kors

I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.

Greg Kampe

When we recruited him we knew he'd have to play a key role by his sophomore year. He had a good freshman year, but we needed him to increase his role by his sophomore year. Am I surprised at how he's done? No. Glad? Yes.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Barry Ritholtz

When Greenspan spoke the market rallied, and when he stopped it gave the gains back.

Mahavira

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Robert Eyler

There are not a lot of job gains forecast.

Sue Olds

We are pleased that there were more gains in more schools than in previous years.

Charlie Heck

Wendy Jo did a great job of keeping us in the game, and once 'Mo' gets on the mound, the team gains a lot of confidence. Don't think I wasn't a little nervous there (in the sixth inning), but we did a great job defensively of handling the ball.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Don Blatchford

We are going to withhold the portion of the rent increase that we feel is unfair and unreasonable.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Lee Raymond

to minimize the increase in price while at the same time recognizing if we kept the price too low we would quickly run out (of fuel) at the service stations.

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Ricky Boren

We've taken a lot of applications, ... Since then, out of the 80 applications, we've interviewed six of those. We do not plan to lower our standards for being an officer.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Errol Morris

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Alison Tyler

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Brad Joyner

We were just pleased to get the win.

Dr. Fukino

We are actually very pleased with the report.

Bob Bryan

We're not too pleased about it. But we'll see how it goes.

Tom Burt

We are really pleased with the judge's order,

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Alex Rodriguez

Tonight we posted another win. Now they know where we're at.

Ron Teixeira

Any time your info is posted on a Web site, you never know who's using it and what they're using it for.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Mike Conway

We had fog, visibility about a quarter of a mile. It's foggy, but it's not pea soup.

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Joe Johnson

In the third quarter they wanted it more than we did.

Randall Godfrey

You can't go to 0-3. This first quarter of the season is so important. We have to at least get even.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.

Rafael Nadal

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

Vincent Schiavelli

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Santiago Creel

Vote by vote, we are going to win the second and third rounds,

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Manish Jha

We need to tell a story in 30 seconds or in one minute.

Dave Roy

We were in the second game. We were right there.

J. C. Chandor

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

John Rawls

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

John Templeton

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Eric Ripert

As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Bill Carmody

Yeah, it's tough to win on the road.

Doug Miller

We'll never really know what went down. This is a tough situation.

Pat McMahon

We're not used to this and don't like it one bit. It's a very long and a very tough day.

Bill Fetters

Well, they always give us a tough game.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.

Julie Clark

We have a tough schedule, ... But we have a tough team, we should be strong.

Andrea Dworkin

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

Carlos Santana

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

James Patterson

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

William Shakespeare

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

Kurt Vonnegut

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Kurt Vonnegut

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.