Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shawcross

A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

Clive Thompson

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

Jefri Sirait

The police already began posting some officers here today (Friday) to secure vital company assets.

Robert Carroll

The pillars broke off and ripped through the side of the boat, and literally began tearing out the entire side of the boat where people were standing, waiting to get off, ... We all jumped from our seats and began running for our lives in the middle of all this debris, and people screaming and falling over each other.

Ken Goldstein

The overall Leading Economic Indicators began to edge down in July, suggesting the economy was losing steam this summer and would continue to slow down in the fall.

Anne Sullivan

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

David Rabe

I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

Noah Feldman

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

Noah Feldman

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

Yuri Milner

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Nelson Mandela

The policy of the People's Republic of China is that there is only one China, which we accept,

Choi Hoon

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

Elan Lee

We plan to double our sales in China every three years.

Anthony Bourdain

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Virat Kohli

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK's at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha's rolls. In Mumbai, it's Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Shashi Tharoor

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

S. J. Rozan

Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

Virginia Postrel

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

Jeff Schuster

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

Charles Koch

Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

Tinashe

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

Mike Campbell

We are not oblivious to other technologies competing for people's time ... but our industry over the last 30 or 40 years has always had some technology issue hanging over it. People want to get out of the home and socialize ... and they can't do that ... with a home theater system.

Tami Harrison

We had no depth. They only count the top four scores. Orlando had 18 kids competing on Level 10, and most of the other teams had at least 10.

Robert Reich

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Joe Blair

There are three stages to the game. There's learning the game, competing and winning. We're still between learning and competing. That's just the stages of development.

Tim Lambesis

There are not as many tours competing with it. In the summer, you have all those tours competing with each other, which gets kind of hard on the wallet as a fan.

Wesley Clark

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

Christien Meindertsma

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Des Browne

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Barack Obama

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

Valerie Cruz

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

Tim Hetherington

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Ashleigh Banfield

Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.

Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Donatella Versace

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Daley Thompson

I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

Bobby Jenks

When I go out there, I'm not thinking about ERA or saves. I'm thinking about, 'That's my inning. I need to get that inning over.

Josh Towers

When a pitcher has an ERA under 4.00 in this league, that's really good, ... To be this late (with his ERA) and to have 180-plus innings and an ERA under 4.00, that's all new territory for me.

Lance Loud

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Nathan Wolfe

We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.

Noam Chomsky

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Ben Bova

We're living in a tremendous era of exploration,

E. W. Howe

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Bill Hader

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

Samuel Butler

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Tahj Mowry

That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

Tom Rathbun

When a roof falls from 40 feet, it's going to be catastrophic.

Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

William Shatner

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

Cate Blanchett

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

Tom Atkins

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Woody Harrelson

To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

David Wright

We have all the right pieces to make the puzzle. I'm not saying it's World Series or bust. The first step is for us to become a playoff-caliber team. We have to take small steps before we can make a giant leap.

Karen Williams

We're not trying to make giant leaps. We're looking for incremental movement.

Mitchell Baker

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.

Ze Frank

I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Michael Haneke

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

Nick Hanauer

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

Bjarke Ingels

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

Phil Klay

I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

Cathy Stucker

To make any sort of income, you need to be highly organized and really work it.

Jane Harrison

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Howard Warren Buffett

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Sundar Pichai

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

Alex Gibney

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

Karnail Singh

We are looking at various angles, including previous attacks.

Roy Keane

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

Delores Killette

We will also be communicating often with customers. We will use every means possible, including the mail, to let them know about service improvements, the reopening of local post offices and other information about local mail service.

Marc Schlosser

We are seeing some very positive results in patients, including those at this center.

Kelly Callahan

We had limited it to just the older, Model A-type vehicles, but this year we're including some other varieties.

Paul Tagliabue

We are in the process of working out the specific arrangements, including the day and kickoff time and plans for television coverage.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Paul Alderete

We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

Frank Evans

Obviously, we're pleased because it means I'm open January 1st.

Chris Matthews

Our trading statement in January showed 8% sales growth, but we feel this is the right time to move into the fast-growing online market. We are doing this from a position of strength.

Pat Ryan

Playing in Muskrat Hole, Saskatchewan, in the middle of January is a little lower on my priority list now. I think I need to do other things with my life.

Charles Bass

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.

Paul Bloch

Lisa Marie Presley was married to musician and producer Michael Lockwood on January 22, 2006.

Phil Gardner

We haven't seen a labor market this strong since prior to January 2001. This is a significant gain.

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.