Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Friedman

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Valeria Golino

I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

Sara Sheridan

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

Liz Perle

We're kind of embarrassed by our appetites. It leaves us in this highly ambivalent relationship with money.

Bob Fosse

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Jason Robert Brown

I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.

Tom Dyal

If you look back at the companies we decide to fund, we generally felt really excited about them right after that first meeting. While we might find a reason not to invest after doing more research, it's rare for us to fund a company we were ambivalent about after that initial contact.

Brad Carson

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

Li Yang

As are many Chinese, I am very ambivalent about this decision,

Kevin Blemkin

Refineries are going to be slow to recover. I'm not too excited about the downside for prices. We still have disruptions. We won't get a real picture of the market today because people are away in the U.S.

Paul Foster

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Bill Reynolds

It is a tool for communities like us to use, but the downside is that we have to wait and wait and wait and wait for the results,

Rory Robertson

Just as the market overshot on the downside in yield in May/June, the risk is that it now overshoots on the upside.

David Chase

It is horrible. On some level that sort of is the downside of being a well-liked show, especially this show. We're in the public eye so much. We get reviewed every Monday. At the same time you can't quarrel with that. It is great that people take an interest. But yeah, it is a lot of pressure.

Alan Greenspan

Greenspan will note the economy's robust growth pace in a low inflation environment, ... the downside risks of the international weakness . . . most recently Brazil.

Brett Gallagher

Had they won, the upside would be significantly greater than the downside we're seeing . . . .

Alan Williamson

There is much risk on the upside than the downside due to net long positions. There's more on the go for platinum.

Renee Martin

There is no downside to this tax. It's the most effective thing the legislature can do in this year's General Assembly.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Fuzzy Zoeller

or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

Jordan Spieth

Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You're going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how you play from the sand really matters.

Roger Bailey

Our previous payout schedule was 20 years old, much like other series' still are. It was time for an increase, and this distribution plan rewards each and every team that takes the green flag.

Barry McGuire

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Cadillac Williams

I was just looking to get a first down and things opened up. The linebackers kind of ran over the top and from there, there was nothing but green grass.

Daniel Chopra

I think someone who is on will post really low scores this week. The greens are perfect. Somebody who is on is going to hit a lot of shots close.

Jill Davis

Live yellow, go green or live green, go yellow.

David Hogan

I still miss the South, the collard greens and the Bulldogs,

Al Gore

I think his legacy is going to be the natural environment, improving the green spaces of our country,

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Andre Patterson

Starting just helps me get into a rhythm faster. But anything this team needs, I'll sacrifice and do.

Gina Mitchell

Our substitute players have meant so much to this team. You know they are going to play well when you put them in, and it really helps this team out.

Zygi Wilf

Retail helps the stadium. The stadium helps the retail.

Cara Hendry

Playing a team for the first time just helps us get a feel for them.

Kevin Donovan

Pick up the phone and make the call, ... You may have the one piece of information that helps us solve this case.

Chet Faker

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

Kurt Rouhselang

That's a wonderful program that helps kids who are in need. They get it done. I'd like to think this will be a long standing relationship.

Chone Figgins

Listen, I would love to play every day at one position but it's just not happening. Being able to play all these different positions makes it fun. It helps the team and it helps me stay in the lineup.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Sally Ride

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Colin Williams

I live just down the street, and we're going to use some of these to pave the driveway,

Rob Morosi

We're preparing to shift traffic from eastbound M-14 to the westbound lanes so we can rebuild the eastbound side, but there are problems with the pavement that have to be addressed first.

Andy Goldsworthy

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

Moira Kelly

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

Ari Kelman

Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.

Jeremy Piven

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Leon Trotsky

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

Terry Pratchett

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Rick Springfield

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Relationship is more than love, but it's all about love.

Daren Kagasoff

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

Samari Rolle

Our relationship is more like brothers. He's kind of like my big brother,

Jim Hagan

Our relationship didn't change, ... I could still walk right into his office.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

B. R. Ambedkar

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.