Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Sampras

When you retire, you take time away, you don't want to have anything to do with tennis. After two years of having fun and not doing much in the sport, you get a little bored and want to know what's the next chapter in your life. Last year was a turning point 'What am I going to do next?' and I had to make a decision.

Rig Veda

When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them.

Charles Dickens

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Robert Passikoff

The fact is that you don't want the consumer to get bored with your product or they'll easily substitute it with something else.

Diane Meyers

When I'm with the children I get a feel for what I think they would get really excited about. If I stood up and talked about aerodynamics they would be bored to death.

Tom Bissell

The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

David Mitchell

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

David Suchet

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Glenn Britt

We have a wonderful physical plant in place. The key is to focus on the consumer and what they want and not get enamored with the technology. If we focus on the consumer, we should see all the technologies as opportunities.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Ken Goldstein

There are a lot of factors here, but more than anything else, we haven't had a full jobs recovery, and the consumer is waiting for that. These numbers reflect they're kind of running out of patience.

Curtis Arnold

There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.

Joe Wilcox

There is a lot of developer and consumer interest around these applications.

Henry Harteveldt

There is categorically no consumer harm being done right now.

Noshir Kaka

The reality is that this shortfall can be fairly easily met by industry.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy. All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy, ... All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Chris Rupkey

There is considerable momentum here that will not be easily slowed. This economy is strong, and it is likely to surprise on the upside.

Daniel Goleman

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Karen Joy Fowler

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Lupita Nyong'o

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

Lester B. Pearson

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us.

John Laird

The fact that so many congressional seats are noncompetitive is not fair, but one state reforming the way it does redistricting is like unilateral disarmament,

Judy Woodruff

The fact that she's the first African-American woman to be named not only to be national security advisor, but to go on to be named secretary of state -- she's already made history from that standpoint. Second woman to be named secretary of state, first African-American woman to be named secretary of state.

Chris Mooney

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

Mark Wiley

The fact that Seattle is so far away is a significant one,

Bill Cheney

The fact that prices have come down makes people feel better and they think the future looks better.

Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

Matt Flynn

The product is out there. It's not necessarily right, and it's not necessarily wrong. It's just the idea that was generated.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

William Diehl

This product is all about taking a convertible mainstream. It's not about being the thinnest, super light, $2,000 convertible you've seen.

Steve Greene

We've got a pretty robust product road map.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Bear Bryant

There is no substitute for guts.

Ray Waddell

There is no substitute for the live experience,

Jim Schmitz

There is no substitute for being on our own field.

Phil McGraw

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Deepak Chopra

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

Joan Bonvicini

We didn't have a lot of options. We tried to substitute as much as we could.

Dan Brown

There's just no substitute for the truth.

Andre Gide

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.