Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Miriam Nelson

Our research shows that a program of strength training not only improves bone density but reduces falls, improves arthritis symptoms, and increases flexibility and strength.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Stephen Phillips

Part of the problem with the previous art festivals was the weather,

Bob Taft

Passion Works is a studio where persons with mental retardation or other disabilities can create beautiful works of art and products and provide those to the community,

Kent Thompson

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

Allyson Schwartz

Preserving local open space is not just critical to our region's quality of life, but also to safeguarding our water and environmental quality.

Bob Etheridge

Our ports are not only critical entryways into our nation that must be protected but they are critical entryways to our economy.

Patrick Joyce

Parking is critical to a facility like Springfield Clinic.

Jeff Raikes

Partners play a critical role in delivering solutions and applications to customers with the Microsoft Office System. The value of Solutions Competencies is that they enable Microsoft to deliver resources and training to partners that are meeting their customer needs. And for partners, the opportunity to highlight their expertise to customers is tremendous in the growing IW solution market.

Irwin Berger

Paul's considerable development experience, team leadership skills, and knowledge of scalable data and security management will significantly enhance our testing and trading infrastructure. As we continuously work to develop the next generation of alternative investments, Paul will ensure our critical real-time data systems meet our evolving needs.

Clarence Briggs

Staying current is critical for maintaining a website's relevance, and the WMT makes doing that easy.

Richard Blumenthal

State regulators twice rejected the proposed Islander East pipeline because it poses a significant threat to water quality and critical marine resources in the Long Island Sound,

Skip Lockwood

Spouses play a critical role in managing their husbands' illness. Having the opportunity to talk with someone else who has the same thoughts -- the same ups and downs -- can put things in proper perspective.

Greg Hart

Some of what we're going to say may sound critical or harsh.

Steve Owens

There are table top exercises that we have for our own events like the Herndon Festival. We practice what might go wrong there and then we have a critique of it to see what we need to work on.

Steve Shortt

If something goes wrong, we stop it and say, 'Let's go back to the position where the wrong decision was made.' Since you are recording the training, you also can go back and immediately critique it with person being trained.

Donald Norman

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Samuel P. Huntington

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Carl Jung

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

David Perry

There is a whole virus underground out there. They critique each others' work.

Brian Simpson

It's really a team activity. The kids work together, critique each other's events and talk about what they need to do.

James Rollins

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

Del Harris

I really like his game. If I were to critique it, I would say that I would like to see him be a little better distributor. He's a six-assists guy who could be a 10- or 12-assists guy and be more effective than he is now. And I think when he makes that next step . . . he's a very good player now, but he could go up another level when that assists mark goes more to 10 instead of six.

John Richardson

Sri Lanka is going to have to take responsibility for its own problems and not look in any large degree for succor from the international community.

Scott Skiles

Some guys play hard, some guys play harder. He's a hard-playing guy. I have never seen him do anything that was out of hand, over the top. In a league where a lot of players feel a degree of entitlement, a guy like him that doesn't feel that can stand out.

David Silvernail

Overall, 75 percent of the graduates in 1997, 1998 and 1999 ended up earning their degree from a Maine institution.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Lauren Willig

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Michael Sheridan

I think they (commissioners) have the right to examine procurement processes, but I think there is a degree of micromanagment here.

Jeff Burton

I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Kathleen Murray

People have to reschedule their weddings for many reasons. You don't want to be left high and dry.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Malorie Blackman

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Kofi Annan

I think the report speaks for itself and he will have to speak for himself,

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Eugene Volokh

It doesn't limit itself to defamation. The principle is the same, whether it's libel or discrimination.

Thomas Lynch

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Terry Teachout

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

Bill Brooks

He's a big fella. It just doesn't lend itself to the symmetry of the park,

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Bill Buff

Surprisingly, one in Providence, Rhode Island, just shows that big-time congestion can come to small and medium size cities. In addition, Tampa, Florida; San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Diego, California; and Cincinnati, Ohio; are all new to the top ranking this year.

Daniel Breaker

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

Doug Aitken

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Marianne Williamson

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

Hasan M. Elahi

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Daniel Suarez

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

Anthony Wayne

We are thinking through the medium and long-term needs here,

David Alan Basche

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

Christian Moody

His passes were perfect. Look at his shooting. I think he's the best.

Dennis Hastert

If the Senate passes it, we'll pass it.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Nell Fookes

She often comes through for us in big passes or getting big turnovers. Tonight, she had big plays.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Sherill Baker

We deflected a lot of passes and turned them into transition baskets.

Mark Hagen

I think we just strung six passes together, ... That's what we need to do consistently.

Frida Kahlo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Antoine Rivarol

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Alan Lightman

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

David Nicholls

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Edward Norton

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Ben Jonson

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.