Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Stoessel

We were already looking at Southern California when he approached us.

Scott Clark

The fact that natural gas prices are competitive in California has to do with the lasting effects of the California energy crisis, which has continued to keep electrical prices high.

Bobby Julich

The professionalism (of the race) is what keeps the European teams coming back and what makes the American riders so focused. The Coors Classic and Tour Du Pont were huge things that got George and I into cycling and now it's up to us to inspire the next generation (of cyclist). I think the Tour of California can help up with that.

Tom Bissell

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Dave Foley

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

David Pogue

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

Gary Sinise

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

Camille Guaty

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Agnes Repplier

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

Alan Kay

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

Alan Keyes

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

Melissa McCarthy

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

Larry Robinson

The reality is that we have eight new guys in our lineup. We have to get them on the same page as everyone else.

Eric Hamilton

The people in Washington were very impressed with the eight different municipalities all working together on this.

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

Taylor Lautner

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

Nathan Myhrvold

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Steve Ludlow

We're still focusing on who's going to emerge.

Haley Barbour

We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.

Kevin Systrom

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Jodi Hermanek

We'll be focusing on holding them to three runs or less, and our pitching has been strong enough to do that.

Rob Honzo

She was trying some new things, like staying low in her shots and not going for power, but focusing more on control.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Roger Gibbins

Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.

Barack Obama

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

William Schlesinger

My wife and I put (solar panels) on our roof and that generates some, though not all, of our power.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Oliver Friedrichs

It really generates a lot of network traffic. It's really just going to slow down Internet performance.

John Keeling

It probably generates more room-nights than an All-Star Game.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

Mike Conway

He's the team. When he bowls, he generates the team.

Ron Perlman

I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.

Carlos Ghosn

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Carlos Castaneda

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carl Andre

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

C. S. Lewis

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

C. S. Lewis

Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Carol Shields

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Carlos Beltran

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Carlos Beltran

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Carlos Fuentes

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Kane Moix

We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.

Richard Farmer

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Janet Yellen

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Don Madden

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

Nancy Talanian

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

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

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

Jochen Zeitz

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

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

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

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Hilary Swank

I think it's unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it's the performance that matters.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Larry Chapman

I just know that winners smile and losers say deal. We have to get better.

Ted Levy

They're all positioned quite well. There are no losers in this battle.

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,

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Dominic James

We have positive places around this community. One of them is Townsend Center.

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Dhani Jones

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

Bill Murray

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Janice Dickinson

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Betty Shabazz

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Jim Sluzewski

We're still evaluating the store base. We've made no other determinations as of yet.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

John Simley

We have not had any instances where a store has been unable to function.

Ron Bruch

There are a lot of stories out there, some probably written and stored with old photographs in shoeboxes in closets.

Gordon Sinclair

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Willie Nelson

We just about threw away the whole store and restocked it,

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.