Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Leaving the board will relieve me of formal duties and give me more flexibility, but I still expect to spend as much time as possible with the extended family of Ford people and will gladly help the company and the board in any way I can.

Harold Levy

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Clyde Tombaugh

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Ben Elliot

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Rebel Wilson

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Frank Quattrone

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Casey James

I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

David Rockefeller

Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.

Ellen Key

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

Yoram Peri

The political picture created now is far different than it was in 1992 when Yitzhak Rabin was elected.

Barry Took

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

Barack Obama

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Frances Beinecke

For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

Ernest Rutherford

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Matthew McConaughey

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Don Bowen

We feel like it's tea time again. We want our property back.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

James Hansen

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

John Sculley

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Andrea Morgan

We don?t have that kind of state support.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.