Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rep. Reece

We want our boat industry to stay strong and viable ... because it brings a lot of sales tax dollars to Hall County.

Brad Schaefer

We were at a boat show at the Qwest Center and I tried it and liked it.

Mark Brown

When I drive over the hill on my way home from work I can look out over my marina and the whole ocean. I know that in five minutes I'm going to be in my shorts and T-shirt on the back of my boat enjoying a scotch on the rocks. I feel like I'm on vacation every day,

Terri Gorman

We used to throw it in a boat because it was the only thing that had a trailer for us to pull.

Paul DeGroot

This will probably be a major downer for the 2006 holiday season, a big time for PC purchases. It's hard to imagine a lot of customers purchasing a new PC but missing the Vista boat by a month.

Pamela Wilson

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup. That revenue could be lost.

Pamela Wilson

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup, ... That revenue could be lost.

John Hyatt

We did everything we could to keep the boat relatively upright. We kept trying to drive forward.

Sean Dolan

We started running the numbers to see what we could cut, but we really didn't have to change much, ... I had friends in the same boat who were one payment from losing their house.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The fact is that the employee union bosses have simply too much power over the budget, too much power over their members' paycheck and too much power over our state,

Ted Cruz

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

Ian Rankin

Whether Rebus's 'skills' are ones his bosses would wish retained is a moot point, but it seems I have my 'get-in' clause should I need one.

Mark Murray

Cellini collaborated with his two bosses to just mail in certificates to the state that said they were certified and trained when in fact they were not.

Travis Bradberry

More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts.

John Challenger

Obviously, everyone has his or her own ideas about what makes a good boss, but there are certain characteristics that most good bosses possess,

Kevin Spillane

Frankly, a lot of insiders think it's the most important measure on the ballot. If it wins, it will be a victory for the governor, and a real defeat for the labor union bosses and their allies.

Larry Kirshbaum

I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.

Stewart Butterfield

I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.

Carlos Ghosn

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

Carlos Ghosn

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Jen Kirkman

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Michael Young

We have to get better. It comes down to every guy looking at themselves and seeing how we can get better, from veterans to rookies. There are no excuses. We have to find a way to get it done.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Madonna Madonna

She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the first things a President learns is that everything he says weighs a ton

Cornelia Otis Skinner

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

The Talmud

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

The Talmud

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Khalil Gibran

They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

Loretta Young

No woman can really tell-sometimes she doesn't even realize-all the things she learns when the man of her life replaces the Prince of her dreams.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Jennifer Hampton

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

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.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

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,

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

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.

Benjamin Graham

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Ben Feldman

If I don't buy it, I can't sell it.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Alan Lightman

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

Daniel Drew

He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to pris'n.

Chris Latham

Big Dell sells - Sharpie ... there's not much to say about Sharpie.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Hal Holbrook

Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

Steve Saviano

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.

Jane Austen

I have no talent for certainty.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.