Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Allen

Regardless of how this 'report' ranks New York, our city is the most generous jurisdiction in the country when it comes to addressing the needs of at-risk and homeless citizens.

Antonio Szabo

Refined product fundamentals are quite strong and likely to pull up crude prices. If one adds to all this the possibility of continued 'hot' news from Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela, crude prices are likely to rise next week.

Don Mitchell

Recently we added another leading U.S. semiconductor manufacturer to our MAGELLAN(R) System customer base,

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bob Davidson

Receiving the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award three times in the past five years demonstrates ABF's commitment to proper cargo handling. We recognize that each pallet, carton or box is a critical part of our customers' business and that loss, damage or delay harms that business, ... The low turnover among our conscientious, experienced employees, coupled with management emphasis and training, results in the best claims experience in our industry. When specific problem areas are uncovered, we use focus groups and the ABF Quality Process to address the root causes; we typically involve our customers and dock employees in this effective problem resolution process. This approach has positioned ABF as the premiere LTL carrier when it comes to delivering shipments on time, intact, and damage free.

David Gordon

Recovery is a long process. There can be four, five or more relapses before an addict gets clean. Parents get tired, disgusted and depressed. They lose faith in 'cures' and grow wary of treatments.

Ben Bernanke

Reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy,

David Cole

Recognizing that the No-Build alternative fails to address the long-term congestion problem, we believe that only the N8c and N2 alternatives are realistic prospects for a solution,

Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Mary Mason

Part of what I've found is that people who can think creatively and can do this kind of work need a tolerant environment, ... Texas will wind up looking un-American, intolerant and very foolish.

Jon Nelson

People have their set impressions about the trumpet. It's either part of an orchestra, or it's played by one or two famous jazz musicians who are doing traditional music. But people are doing very creative things.

Dave Williams

Standardization of creative units allows us to focus more on the message and other key variables that drive ROI.

Christina Hendricks

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

Dan Glickman

Piracy not only has an economic impact on our industry, ... but it has an impact on the creative spirit in this country.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

B. J. Novak

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

Bibhu Mohapatra

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Jay Safier

People, in general, don't like to get letters addressed to them from the Internal Revenue Service, even if it's as simple as not signing your return or not dating your return.

Dave Watson

I think dating is a showcase for how fun television can be.

Sam Yagan

I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

Chris Snyder

I'd be pretty embarrassed if I met my girlfriend through speed dating.

Dylan Penn

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

Kevin Sorbo

I was an actor first. The whole modeling thing happened because I was dating a model.

Charles Jencks

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

Kiesza

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.

Aziz Ansari

I've never done online dating.

Mina Tadros

Success is that feeling that comes after overcoming a failure, you will not feel it as long as you are not failing, so be proud of your failures, they are the path to your success

David Knapp

some great outdoor party songs, some big hits that will encourage in listeners a little nostalgia when the summer has passed, and the kind of tribal energy tracks that make people move!

Dave Rose

Our players are really engaged and encourage each other. When someone makes a mistake, they're right there encouraging them to move on and get better.

Mike Browning

Our team has shown grit all year. We have been down but we haven't been out. We figure out ways to get victories and you have to be encouraged by that.

Dean Hachamovitch

Our goal is to encourage everyone to try the product. We think that free phone support is a good way to encourage a lot of people who might otherwise shy away from trying beta software.

H. Hart

Overall I was very encouraged at the way the kids played.

Michael Tiemann

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.

Robert Henson

Robert is a reaction guy and as he gets older, he'll have all the other things you need. He has big-play potential. He can do it wrong and still make the play. We don't encourage it, but some people have that ability.

Carl Sagan

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

John Nichols

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Wendell Perkins

Oracle had a nice run and no longer fit our value parameters.

Tom McCabe

People need to know where they fit in. It's a very specific program.

Kaley Cuoco

Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.

Jon Sundvold

Our work the last three weeks has indicated that these two men could potentially be good fits at the University of Missouri.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Physically he is not fully fit at the moment and he urgently needs to win match practice.

Kevin Mawae

We never talked about my contract. He said he wants smart players willing to do the little things the right way. I thought I would be one of those guys, but I didn't fit in their plans.

Paul Maholm

I was a little nervous. I was just trying to learn from all the guys -- knowing I was going to be one of the first ones cut. I just tried to fit in where I could.

Marie Kondo

I will only purchase what fits me. If I want to lose weight, I do that first and then go shopping.

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

John Foley

real movement toward better funding and toward smaller service, smaller supports and more employment, more real employment, rather than meaningless day activities.

David Holmes

Relays are the most fun thing about any meet, especially when you win them. We are lucky enough to be able to do that more often than not.

Jeremy Siegel

Relative to the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, it's very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

John Gunn

Past performance doesn't have anything to do with future performance. It's a massive delusion. It's the most insane thing in the world. You want a pick a fund with low turnover where the management has been around for a long time.

Kristin Chaney

Our main thing is to slow them down. It's fun for us to run, but we don't like to see them run.

James Huang

Our mainland policies remain the same. We still hope the two sides can sit down and make some breakthroughs in functional talks.

Martha Stewart

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

B. J. Novak

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Cecelia Ahern

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

Cecelia Ahern

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

Bill Bryson

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

Tom Nalen

I was planning on working this week, then going to Detroit. It's a disappointment.

Sue Wilson

I did some planning over the summer, ... and I managed to do some relaxing.

Johan Bruyneel

He's planning on being here. Just sitting with me in the car, he helps.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Jamie Lawson

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Pat Listach

He just did what he does. He mixes his speeds up.

John Donnelly

He's a different kind of guy. He's a slasher. (Dave) was more of a speed guy. But we'll take another Fischer.

Rich Miano

He's got to be one of the strongest safeties in the nation. He's got the strength and the speed and the quickness.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Brad Dancer

He doesn't talk about it. He's a tough guy. You can see it in his speed and some of his movement.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Meg Browne

Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.

John Kearns

Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal.

Deepak Chopra

The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed.

Alan Ball

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Eve Arnold

Themes recur again and again in my work.

Moby

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

Michael Heizer

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Mason Cooley

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

John O'Hara

They say great themes make great novels