Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

Yikyung Park

In general, most previous studies have been inconsistent.

Tom Wilson

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Paul Johnston

That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

Steve Griffin

That suggests to me there is something quite clandestine going on or something strange.

Terry Grant

I was quite shocked when they called me.

Carol Patterson

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

Jeff Crowe

I think they need to sort it out.

Ben Windsor

That's the whole thing, we work well together and we're all sort of into the same stuff.

Suzanne White

That's the sort of story we need to tell.

James Mercer

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Terry Jenkins

If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Emilia Clarke

I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Donnie Edwards

I don't even worry about that anymore. .Ê.Ê. Ten years it hasn't happened.

Joel Robuchon

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.