Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

David Bailey

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

Elliot Mintz

The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people up, and things of that nature, I just find all of that to be absurd.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost. We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost, ... We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Brendon Urie

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

Dennis Christopher

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

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.

Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

Rob Puterio

The overall quality is down, but the competition is up.

Chuck Grassley

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Charles Koch

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

Carrie Fisher

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Eric Fellner

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Eric Shanteau

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

Jennifer Grubb

We play each other for a reason. We need this kind of competition to get ready for district. They need to get ready for the playoffs.

Sunil Mittal

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

Nina Bawden

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Christopher Darden

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

Charlie Kleman

We are not looking outside Lee County right now. If the county can't fix the road situation, we might have to.

Tony Roberts

Where else could you do that much basketball? The great football rivalries plus we also did some south county games, Crown Point, Merrillville and also Valparaiso.

Jerry Caddel

We did that in the county judge's office. We accomplished a lot.

Steve Schmidt

We're kind of frustrated because the Kent County deer were taken to a landfill before we could test them.

Edward Callahan

We're at Mother Nature's mercy, until it rains, ... We could use all the water in Somerset County and it would still burn.

Mark Chandler

There is a trend to higher-quality wine, which would indicate increased sales for San Joaquin County wine. We don't participate in the jug-wine market.

Tom Sears

We have had exceptionally wet weather in Derby for the last six weeks. We did look at other possibilities in the area, but everywhere in the county is in the same boat.

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

John Challenger

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

Suze Orman

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Daniel Loeb

our worst-case estimated value of $14 per share.

Sandra Wilson

We estimated about 9,000 people attended. It was an enthusiastic crowd.

Duke Ramey

We went over to Chalmette one day where they desperately needed help, and we were turned away because some inmates escaped. Who cares? Why should that stop us from going in there? That parish (St. Bernard) estimated there were 7,500 stranded in their homes. Nobody's been able to talk to them, and we get turned away.

Sheikh Ahmad

OPEC today produces 30.4 million bpd and there is a surplus in the market estimated at over two million barrels,

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

Allan Hoffenblum

It's a referendum on him and his political team's persuasive abilities.

Dale Carnegie

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

Wolfgang Thierse

I see no truly persuasive reasons to overturn this decision.

Larry Gibson

We have all the resources we need at this time.

Anne Schwartz

We have tremendous resources expended to look for these boys.

Rusty Schweickart

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

Norm Zada

We don't have the resources to sue everybody.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Harry Lloyd

If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

Denzel Washington

We're not sure yet who will play my father,

Laurie McKager

We're not sure why that wall had not been tested.

Jeff Carr

We're not sure if the two discoveries are related. However, we will look into that possibility.

Eric Erickson

We're not sure if he made a right-of-way violation or not,