Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

Patrick Page

The point of 'Othello,' among other points, is that it is impossible to know another human being,

Gary Bauer

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

Bryan Greenberg

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

Dan Murphy

The other way is to stay on TV to be work more toward the product placement strategy. In other words, insert your brand into a particular show.

Isadore Sharp

The power of a global brand name is more important and valuable today than ever before.

Mayor Newman

The people who spoke before, we do have a record of that, it's sworn testimony. Unless they have something brand new to say, we really need to limit (the public comment time). We don't need any philosophical comments. It has to be pertinent to what's being requested.

Alfred Kahn

We are proud to promote Carlin West to this new position. She has had a hand in the success of many of our most popular properties. Since joining 4Kids more than 12 years ago, Carlin has demonstrated a valuable, diverse skill set including identifying exciting new kids' properties, brand positioning and much more. We look forward to expanding her responsibilities in this new role.

John Fry

We are proud to forge this partnership with the PGA TOUR and Las Vegas Founders Club to support a great, entertaining tournament that has a long history of supporting worthwhile charities in the Las Vegas area. The PGA TOUR is one of the great brands in sports. We are particularly excited to be in a position to help the tournament support its traditional charities, as well as one of our favorite non-profit organizations, the American Institute of Mathematics.

Bruton Smith

We are pleased to report strong earnings growth during a period of rising interest rates and a competitive industry environment. Our results reflect the combined effect of our improved brand mix and the successful execution of our key operating initiatives.

Maria Cantwell

We're talking about a 20-cent difference in the same brand of gasoline in two different locations,

Ludwig Tieck

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Sandy Puccio

We're keeping it to just one day because the quilts are so old and valuable. Some of the designs are really unusual.

Kai Bird

Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

Wendell Willkie

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

Jenifer Lewis

My favorite memory in the barbershop was watching the hair fall. Little particles would fall and I would make designs out of it.

Larry Ellison

I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.

Tom Murray

We offer a lot of extra space in our home designs that can be used for a variety of purposes.

Charles Baker

People here are really wedded culturally and emotionally to very rich plan designs relative to what you see in different parts of the country. They are just more expensive.

Kevin Krewell

Most designs take years. But it was very important for them to get back in the game and have a road map.

Henrietta Holsman

The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces of contemporary art.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Chris Christie

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.

Chita Rivera

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

Chinua Achebe

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Dave Barry

To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

C. L. R. James

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Carl Honore

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

Michell Howard

We started getting inquiries from Europe as soon as the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Madeleine Albright

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Shawn Amos

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

Annalee Newitz

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Scott Greenstein

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Deepak Chopra

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Marty Dickens

We have no intention of leaving this building.

Moshe Sharett

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

Brett Favre

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Alexey Miller

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Camille Paglia

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

Catherine Tate

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Bill Johnson

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Vince Carter

We want to play team defense, regardless (of what Iverson does). A.I. can get his points. The priority is to win the game.

Gary Thomas

When we got priority through downtown, it pushed us into a comfortable ranking.

Diane Nelson

We're going to help DC feel like more of an important priority in Warner Bros.

Ajay Kumar

Security of Salem will be our top priority when he comes to Delhi.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Mike Claffey

We've taken that on because it's a priority for safety reasons.

Todd Solondz

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

Dick Gephardt

I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Janine Turner

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

Brian Major

That's a big purchase for us. That's great.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Chris Neil

I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that. I just told him, we play them one more time.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Darren Clarke

I wish I could repeat it a little more often.

Jeff Bower

I will repeat that, again, he's been disciplined.

Judd Anderson

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

Zach Thomas

Don't even try to type him. It's a waste of time. He'll never repeat tendencies.

Milan Baros

The way things are going here, we could repeat the 1996 result. Only this time, we should win the trophy.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

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.

Bam Margera

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

Anthony Trollope

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

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.

Bob Eastwood

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

Jessie Pettit

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

Michael R. Bloomberg

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

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Jerry Yang

We look at our users' interests, without our users we don't have business.

Peter Norvig

We thought it was very important to keep our users out of jail.

Eric Schmidt

Toolbar users are more sophisticated, use advertisers in more sophisticated ways,

Wang Hui

By the end of 2006, we will have about 60,000 users in total. The new ones will be installed this month.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.