Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

Jeff Bezos

With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Paul Williams

Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.

Joe Jimenez

Selling the HP ethnic foods business, which is sold primarily through the ethnic distribution channel, is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

Robert Brusca

We're getting some very good spending going into the first quarter. It's interesting that while there is spending optimism, consumers are still clearly divided into two main categories -- those with lots of money and those that are hurting. That's why these monthly results have shown so much irregularity.

Charlotte Whitton

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are mens wives.

Placido Domingo

There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.

Paul Johnson

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

Dieter Zetsche

We want our divisions to concentrate on the automotive core processes - development, production and sales.

Brad Bugger

We have performed a number of upgrades to the reactor and its support systems in recent years, as well as the core internal change-out process, which essentially results in a new reactor core every eight to 10 years.

Greg Sampson

We did nothing. We had no money. We had no core people. We have taken what's in our guts and said this seems to be the right thing to do.

Scott Walkinshaw

We want to thank the officials organization. We get a really good group of core officials to help with the meet. It would be impossible to host the meet without the support that we have from the community.

Michael Moriarty

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Robert Stewart

There are definitely items and sections of the core exams that focus on security,

Robert Freedman

There are core industries in Manhattan that are thriving, despite the recession, and publishing is one of them.

Anthony Chan

We still see limited penetration into the rest of the economy. It's too early to say you're seeing pricing power to pass on the energy cost increases just because you saw just a jump in the core PPI number. The world has changed. In the old traditional world, whenever you had mature expansion, you had pricing power. Today with globalization, that's no longer the case.

Vin Blaine

We have a short time to prepare and I'm yet to select a final squad, but I'm expecting that the core group of the Under-20 girls will form the senior squad... the other girls who will join are experienced enough to fit in.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Archie Panjabi

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Aziz Ansari

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Isaiah Stanback

I'm always wanting to learn new things. That's why I majored in American ethnic studies.

John Thorne

From imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was.

Fred Schmidt

I'd like to say it's German and they sing German songs on their porch, but it's not true, ... You see ethnic neighborhoods go downhill. This one went uphill.

Kevin Bacon

My kind of stuff, ... I like all kinds of ethnic foods.

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.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

Joel Fuhrman

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

David Chang

Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too.

Joel Fuhrman

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

Parker Young

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Kim Allen

There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

John Mackey

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

Charles Bennett

We have never before been able to understand the infant universe with such precision.

Eddie Slovik

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

Phillip Swagel

I don't know what would be worse, maybe a tariff on infant formula.

Cheryl Fogarty

When numbers go up, there's always a possibility that rates are going to go up. We don't want to leave any stone unturned to prevent infant deaths.

Sgt. Urbas

We are in the infant stages of looking at it.

Charles Bennett

We report today the most precise measurements of our infant universe.

Robert Gottlieb

Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.

Carey Lisse

You can dredge material from near the infant Sun all the way out.

Duncan Hunter

You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Leroy Hill

We know he has a big job. He's got to get the calls, give them to us and line us up. But we still like to mess with him. Like, after awhile, we get tired and we don't want to huddle anymore. He'll get mad and start fussing at everybody.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Al Pacino

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Anthony Trollope

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Daniel Handler

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Brother Lawrence

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

Carey Mulligan

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

Blake Lively

On average, I order about three meals for myself in one sitting.

Billy Graham

You're rich if you've had a meal today.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

David Boies

From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.

Brendan Myers

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Franz Wright

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Matthew Quick

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

John Ashcroft

Thousands of persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the United States each year,

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

Peter Thiel

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Harvey Weinstein

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

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.

Brian Shaw

We've sold out every year we've been here.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.