Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Firth

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

Colin Firth

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

Terence Stamp

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

Vincent Frank

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

Vincent Frank

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Vincent Frank

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

Vincent Frank

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

Leslie Banks

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Brandon Thomas

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Zubin Mehta

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Francis G. Slay

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

Charles Platt

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Wade Mackey

We played well in Rapid City last Sunday.

Mark Petersen

We played around with our lineup. We had no heavyweight, but fortunately it worked out in our favor. Jerry has a nice young team and it was a great city rivalry match.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

David Pratt

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

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

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

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.

Common

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

Tammy Faye Bakker

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

Jenifer Lewis

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

Bill Wyllia

When you're on a fixed retirement income, having to suddenly to pay for insurance takes a chunk.

Lars Richters

Unfortunately we're in the habit of being a second-half team and we've got to get that fixed or we're going to learn the hard way.

Grover Norquist

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

Justin McCareins

We'll get it fixed up for when it really counts. We'll save it for later.

H. Hunt

We want to travel, and we haven't had time to. And we have to get our house fixed up for our old age. It's been sad and it's been happy. It's been emotional.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to have to get this fixed (by Congress),

Scott Stevens

We're getting hit with a double-edged sword, the higher seasonal increase and Hurricane Katrina. The folks I feel for are those on a fixed income.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Common

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Beeban Kidron

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Bradley Cooper

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Al Jourgensen

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

Jeffrey Robinson

There is a teacher I have hired and I don't know if he's with us on our team. I know the unions have their rules and something must be done about the unions.

Megan Fox

Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

Magic Johnson

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

Robin Ryan

Today, we hire specialists not generalists. I don't need 10 people contributing the same skill.

Jennifer Laster

We have a fiber-optic line outside our hospital, but we're told we need to hire an IT person to 'manage the line' -- another expense.

Tammy Blanchard

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

Chris Christie

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Richard J. Codey

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.

Kelley Heck

We're really pleased with the response and proud that New Jersey residents take so much pride in their state.

Danny Granger

We still think (the series) is there to be won. We got one in Jersey earlier. We're still pretty confident.

Mike Church

In my mind, it?s the Jersey series that got us going,

LeBron James

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

Lloyd Carr

Whoever wears that jersey has some big shoes to fill. And we're out there now trying to find him.

Danielle Goyette

For the past 14 years I have been wearing the Maple Leaf on my jersey and it's always been an honor, but today's its very special.

Bob Nelson

We pretty much provide most if not all of the kinds of jobs they are going to need in slot parlors.

Alan Cohen

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

Alan Cohen

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Dick Cheney

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Dick Cheney

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

Dick Cheney

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

Dick Cheney

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Arthur C. Nielsen

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Tim Johnson

Those in Lucedale who want to take on local responsibility just didn't know the process for organization around long-term recovery,

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Linda McCoy

If you want your money to be used locally, you have to earmark it for local use.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Jonathan Lethem

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Tommy Lee Jones

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

Sue Monk Kidd

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Alan Cohen

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

Alan Cohen

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Alan Cohen

When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain an attitude freer than fear? When confronted with upsets and the poisonous projections of others, can you remember that all is well? Do you know that you are a spiritual being, not subject to the whims and caprices of earthly tides?

Alan Cohen

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

Alan Cohen

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Alan Cohen

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Alan Cohen

The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.