Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yuri Milner

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.

Wendy Kopp

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

Vonda Shepard

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa.

Vonda Shepard

I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the crib and sing in the crib all night long. My crib would roll across the floor in the middle of the night. Finally, my father nailed its legs to the floor.

Billy Graham

I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.

Colin Greenwood

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

Evangeline Lilly

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Evangeline Lilly

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Nicky Hilton

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

Scott Caan

I stuck to blackjack and craps. I play by the book, so I came out on top.

David Rosenberg

(T)hat's not a recession-maker, but it's a pinch nonetheless - it means a little less steak and a lot more bologna, fewer outings to the nightclub and perhaps one less vacation on the cruise line (but maybe more time at the blackjack table).

Richard Segal

The success of blackjack has transformed our casino business. Through effective cross-selling to our large customer base, we are well on the way to creating the world's largest online casino.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Wentworth Miller

I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young Tom Cruise, because Hollywood knows what to do with you. But if you're someone who's bringing someone slightly left of center to the table, you're not a sure thing.

Warren Giles

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

Wendy Kopp

We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

Wesley Clark

The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Chet Faker

In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

Evangeline Lilly

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

Ellen Key

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

David A. Bednar

The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies. Heavenly Father desires us to be together in the light and filled with hope.

Andrew Lee

You have obvious valuation discrepancies between the two for a start. You have also got a slight issue that the number of London casinos could come under scrutiny from the Competition Commission.

Mike Triplett

The problem that all of us are trying to figure out is: When did out-of-state casinos become more important than in-state small businesses? We tried to persuade the Senate, and we tried to persuade the House. . . . We are now going to try to persuade the governor.

Larry Gregory

We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.

Mike McConachie

In West Texas, he was making them to get the Native American casinos out there. He has been spreading money around in return for currying political favors." ()

Gary Jackson

The Gulf Coast I know and the people of the great state of Missisisppi are not dependent on casinos for whether they survive. They are dependent on what God put within them - that character I saw down there.

Ed Feigenbaum

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

Alberto Lopez

We reached out to other casinos on the Strip, but everyone was filled. Our main effort was to make our guests as comfortable as they could be until the situation was resolved.

Berenice Marlohe

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

Peter Swire

I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.

Colleen Hoover

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

Emmanuel Jal

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Tony Romo

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Virat Kohli

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

Tim Howard

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

Kevin Kleckler

We did well. I'm excited about the kids doing well. It's a young team.

Mike Nichols

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'

Clemence Poesy

There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.

Dwayne Johnson

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Donald L. Carcieri

My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move.

Donna Brown

We pretty much have everything packed up already; we're just waiting for facilities (department) to come and pick it up. It's and extremely exciting time.

Donna Brown

We pretty much have everything packed up already. It's an extremely exciting time.

Tanith Lee

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

Chad Spalding

We did what you're supposed to do and for me that is more exciting than hitting a home run. We executed some good old-fashioned plays. We hit the cut-off man and we made the plays in the field to win.

Kevin Reilly

We are not going to slip quietly into spring. With these exciting new shows in our re-configured schedule, we will be very competitive -- and given the promotional momentum of the Olympics, we can give these promising shows the launch they deserve.

Chris Brathwaite

We are not ditching the (Sears Essentials) format. We are retooling it. The next wave of stores will have a number of exciting improvements to the off-mall format.

Clifford D. Simak

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

Cassandra Clare

For me, the triad of 'Harry Potter,' the 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it's a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I'm very grateful for.

Kelly Wearstler

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Lori Foster

The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

Noah Hawley

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

Brian Greene

The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.

Henry Selick

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.

Shaharyar Khan

We have not permitted Malik to feature in this series which comes in our domain.

Zahi Hawass

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Patrick Anderson

The only sliver of a silver lining is that the tourism industry has held its own.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Don Cooper

You knew who was the boss. That's a refreshing thing now. Here in Chicago, the inmates don't run the asylum. They're held accountable. They know what the rules are.

Walt Smith

We got to play a lot of people, including our 20 freshmen, and they held their own. They usually run the other team's plays in practice, so they are still picking up what we run.

Doug Pritchard

Those who had held them and were guarding them were not present in the location where they were found.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

David Bailey

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

Alan Levenson

The overall affordability of a home is still ample,

Colonel Sanders

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Dries van Noten

When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has such a long lead time. With jam, you start, and two-three hours later, you have 36 little pots, all full.

David Fincher

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Al Pacino

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

Carl J. Lindner, Jr.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

Debbie Coffman

We are not neglecting penmanship, but we have prioritized it in its proper order in the big picture of literacy. If we are in school for six or seven hours a day, it can't be an hour.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Evelyn Glennie

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

Paul Simpson

We are not in a position where we have to let players go and we have let Livingston know that.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Joanne Bracker

We're at the end of the season now, so we're going to regroup with the players we have.

Wes Welker

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Colin Lee

There are not a lot of players who want to come here,

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Heather O'Reilly

Our journey has taken 21 players but our goal is still the same, to win the World Cup.

Kirk Cheney

We got to 22 points in a hurry, and then how many two-footers did we miss? It's all about a team effort, and who's going to step up. And we had some players do that for us tonight.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

John H. Reagan

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

Ricky Ford

This season has really been a tale of two seasons for me,

Daunte Culpepper

We can still do what we set out to do. We have a lot of season left.

Rohit Sharma

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

Willie Randolph

We'll probably be going back-and-forth all season with these guys.

Dema Kovalenko

We didn't come out to play, we didn't come out with any urgency. We've got to do better because, if we do this in the playoffs, the season is over.

Neil Warnock

We had to stand strong in the second half, and this season we are showing more composure.

Sam Madison

Usually this time of the season takes a nosedive.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Courtney Gains

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Christopher Golden

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Dan Quisenberry

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

Victor Diaz

You know it, man. Every at-bat this spring was like the World Series for me. I'm just going to go out there and be ready.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Lauren Cercone

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

Bill Gates

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

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Jack Welch

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Peter Drucker

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

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,

Henry Mintzberg

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Paul Provenza

We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!

Marisa Tomei

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

Paul Muldoon

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

George H. W. Bush

use the third person -- 'they' and 'he' -- and you know who I mean.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Sean Paul

all done right here in the Third World.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Chelsea Handler

We women have to stick together.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Jack Johnson

love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

Linda Evans

We haven't all been together for a really long time.

Bob McNair

We'll get together this week and get all that wrapped up.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Alan Perlis

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

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...

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Kim Clijsters

Yeah, it was (the quickest tournament I've won),

Helen Wills Moody

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Randy Burditt

Without all of the help, the tournament would be nothing. It was another success.

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Mark Pendleton

That's the story of the tournament for us.

Cassie Johnson

We will be here until the end of the tournament to watch the USA men's team. Hopefully, they'll get to the finals.

Chris Ellis

We went from zero to ACC Tournament bracket-buster.

Louie Schwartzberg

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

PewDiePie

I'm not out to max my income. I think my viewers would call me on that right away if I did.

Marcel Duchamp

It's the viewer that makes the work.