Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Larry Holmes

The police are finding more and more excuses to inhibit, prohibit demonstrations, build pens that you can't even see over to put demonstrators in.

Joan Neilsen

The overriding idea of the program is to speak French and build the students' self-confidence and self-assurance in themselves.

Anthony D'Angelo

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

Bee Wilson

Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.

Keith Cieplicki

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

Shek Borkowski

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Joshua Johnson

The past two games the coaches were trying to see who was going to be their go-to guys.

Carmelo Anthony

The past two days, George (coach George Karl ) has been stressing that if the playoffs were today, this is who we'd play. We wanted to make a statement right away and tell them this is what they'll see if they play us.

Cobi Jones

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

A.J. Burnett

We play scared. We manage scared. We coach scared.

Marlen Ronten

We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only four 2-point field goals. It was a true team effort.

Antawn Jamison

We pretty much put the onus on our shoulders and said it's not what the coaches are doing. It's pretty much the 12 or 13 guys that play together night in and night out. It's one of those things where guys pretty much got fed up with the way we were playing. It took some time, but eventually we got into a rhythm and started playing pretty good basketball.

Tim Howard

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Tyler Oakley

Every video I make, I want to make sure that it's doing something entertaining or hopefully inspiring or maybe teaching somebody something or sharing my mistakes so that they can learn from them or anything that will make a positive impact in the world.

Ace Frehley

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

Pam Taylor

What we have to do is maintain or limit their perimeter play . . . and try and keep them from getting a lot of points on the inside. Hopefully this time around, we'll make them play our way instead of playing their way.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Hopefully I'll get to make another movie, so we'll see. But modeling - all the actresses are taking everything over now, with all the modeling endorsements and magazine covers.

Ken Hitchcock

We're locked in now. Hopefully we can make this interesting. Sometimes we struggle to get emotionally connected, but we're locked in now.

Ken Hitchcock

We're locked in now. Hopefully we can make it really interesting.

Coach Blount

We still don't know about him at this point. He was still hobbling around on it. We'll hopefully know more later in the week.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Kurt Cohen

We played well defensively. Obviously that was the difference.

Nick Price

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Brian Celio

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Frank Haith

We're not totally out of it. Obviously we need to win (today) and we need to go into the (ACC) tournament and win one and, maybe, two games. As much as (FSU is) playing for something, we have to understand we're playing for something, too.

Tom Glavine

We have a lot of expectations for ourselves, and obviously a lot of people have expectations of us. I can't think of a better way to start the year.

Brian Dobie

We had kind of been discounting him in any of our plans for some time now, but this is obviously very shocking.

Jeffrey Passel

The picture we get is that of young, working families.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Gene Scott

The picture is important because it tends to verify what he was saying about what happened.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

Taissa Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Alan Ball

You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone.

Dale Brown

You can't pinpoint it down to one specific thing, ... We look at the whole big picture of things.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Friedrich Schiller

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

John Rhys-Davies

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

Rob Thompson

We just wanted to do it our own way, put our own stamp on it,

George Bernard Shaw

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Rick Riordan

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

Robert Plant

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Yehuda Amichai

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Amisha Patel

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Darnell Bing

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

Ludwig von Mises

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Ludwig von Mises

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.

Ludwig von Mises

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Edie Falco

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

Carlos Gomez

We're like cheese. Everyone wants to take a bite.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.