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COLE PORTER He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
COLE PORTER My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
COLE PORTER In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything...
COLE PORTER It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
COLE PORTER [And I also thought about one of Yale's alumni, namely the urbane songwriter Cole Porter. The grands...
COLE PORTER You're the Nile,/ You're the Tower of Pisa,/ You're the smile/ On the Mona Lisa.
COLE PORTER Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. (when asked "Who wr...
COLE PORTER Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
COLE PORTER I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be tru...
COLE PORTER I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
COLE PORTER Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.
COLE PORTER Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anythin...
COLE PORTER I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be tr...
COLE PORTER Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th...
MICHAEL PORTER I do tend to overdo everything.
GAIL PORTER You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go ...
GAIL PORTER I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
GAIL PORTER I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
GAIL PORTER I don't believe in God.
GAIL PORTER The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and misera...
GAIL PORTER Every day I do something that freaks me out.
GAIL PORTER I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your ear...
GAIL PORTER I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop...
GAIL PORTER I try to cope with everything through humor.
GAIL PORTER People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
GAIL PORTER Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
GAIL PORTER Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
GAIL PORTER I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
GAIL PORTER So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really...
GAIL PORTER Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
NOAH PORTER Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
SYLVIA PORTER Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
IRENE PORTER Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
ELIOT PORTER Aesthetics happen.
PORTER ARNEILL I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent abilit...
PORTER ARNEILL The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
NAN PORTER The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statistici...
SYLVIA PORTER I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and ...
JANE PORTER People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing....
JOHN PORTER Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
NOAH PORTER With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ...
JON PORTER Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
MICHAEL PORTER Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
MICHAEL PORTER The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
MICHAEL PORTER For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging,...
BILLY PORTER The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
MICHAEL PORTER The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
MICHAEL PORTER Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
MICHAEL PORTER Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves...
JANE PORTER I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t...
BILLY PORTER I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditi...
BILLY PORTER Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not cov...
JON PORTER I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I ...
BILLY PORTER The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n...
JON PORTER Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later dis...
BILLY PORTER What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cance...
GAIL PORTER Bald is the new black!
GAIL PORTER I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about lif...
BILLY PORTER This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll a...
HENRY PORTER The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has be...
JON PORTER As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a c...
MICHAEL PORTER Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, ...
MICHAEL PORTER I had just retired and was not sure what I was going to do. I hadn't played (softball) in 35 years. ...
BILL PORTER While you can sell a hot car designed for younger buyers to an old guy, you can't sell a stodgy old ...
BILL PORTER Usually the soft elements rank higher than the cost. They may not pick the cheapest. We've seen this...
BILL PORTER We seem to get busier every year. We continue to push ahead to be one of the top courses in the stat...
BILL PORTER They can be very dangerous. They're scary places. One thing you can't argue with is, they're cheaper...
BILL PORTER We had a terrific fourth quarter and finished 2005 with good momentum. Our product portfolio is very...
BILL PORTER In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionat...
MICHAEL PORTER I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me...
BILLY PORTER There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
MICHAEL PORTER In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off....
MICHAEL PORTER I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old s...
SCOTT PORTER The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
MICHAEL PORTER Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity
MICHAEL PORTER One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that what...
SYLVIA PORTER I'm not going to make someone my priority, when I'm their option.
AVA PORTER We also played in a round-robin tournament, so both squads had an enjoyable week.
CHRIS PORTER We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front wh...
JON PORTER When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't e...
TERRY PORTER It's kind of hard to sit up here and hold a grudge when it doesn't really matter at this point. The ...
JOEY PORTER We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as ...
JON PORTER You can't avenge that this early in the season. Last year we beat them and it didn't matter because ...
JOEY PORTER Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
JANE PORTER Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I ...
MICHAEL PORTER Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar
HENRY PORTER Retirement is postponed and we will continue to train him toward a race in the future. The timing is...
RICK PORTER Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
MICHAEL PORTER Canadian consumer spending is finally poised to hit the brakes after a spectacular run earlier this ...
DOUGLAS PORTER The industrial sector is cruising along at a moderate but not spectacular pace, and that's a good th...
DOUGLAS PORTER Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the Euro...
JON PORTER When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely e...
BILLY PORTER You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The m...
ELIOT PORTER You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, tha...
MICHAEL PORTER Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man
PETER PORTER It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the w...
JON PORTER Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying...
MICHAEL PORTER When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on ...
GEORGE PORTER The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an up...
TERRY PORTER In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been represent...
JON PORTER Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is onl...
JANE PORTER He was just overworked. He's doing much better.
DAVID PORTER In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at ...
PETER PORTER When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is...
BILLY PORTER As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was...
PETER PORTER The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pil...
PETER PORTER I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly wel...
PETER PORTER You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
PETER PORTER I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the po...
PETER PORTER I have no fondness for pure form at all.
PETER PORTER When you're shopping for fish, ask the grocer if they're ocean caught or wild caught, and not farm r...
PAM PORTER We didn't distort anything. We just beat them.
PORTER ERISMAN I think our safeguards are in place and are working,
PORTER GOSS I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause ...
BILLY PORTER America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastruc...
MICHAEL PORTER Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willi...
MICHAEL PORTER Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
HORACE PORTER There's no way he can hide from me. He has to line up in front of me. And I'm going to remind him of...
JOEY PORTER Because the school district lies in two counties, I have to pro-rate the amount of tax dollars that ...
BILL PORTER I really wasn't. A little bit, sure, but we've been testing these systems for months.
BILL PORTER E*Trade was much easier,
BILL PORTER We've always felt that added competition, reduced cost, more efficiency would grow the market overal...
BILL PORTER You want to wear rubber gloves when you skin these suckers,
BILL PORTER We worked the factory in Korea to make the 2006 Rio even better for the money, ... And with the rece...
BILL PORTER I still have a lot of confidence in their product,
BILL PORTER It's important that the U.S. markets are quietly turning forward themselves. There seem to be much b...
DOUG PORTER It's hard to harp on a situation that's over with. It's tough enough for him to lose. I'm not going ...
JOEY PORTER We provide a lot of softball equipment and technical assistance to China and we are also sending coa...
DON PORTER The government has confirmed that (the power industry) will be expected to bear the entire burden of...
DAVID PORTER That's where people saw his diplomatic skills. He allowed space for perspectives to emerge and creat...
DAVID PORTER We are extremely disappointed, we will be considering what steps we might now take.
DAVID PORTER You cannot track someone with this system, which is what everyone seems to fear. The way we designed...
DAVID PORTER A Glimmer of Hope is proud to partner with Austin Can! Academy in providing opportunities for the ar...
DAVID PORTER It will be a hard sell. It's been a hard sell in Oregon.
DAVID PORTER He's just overworked and had been in Atlantic City performing, the D.C. area performing, and in Tuni...
DAVID PORTER Garth's music holds a magic that touches his fans of all ages, and making his titles available to ou...
DAVID PORTER I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weap...
GEORGE PORTER Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns...
MAX PORTER It has a huge impact on probably the only subdivision that's being impacted by the changes of this i...
KEVIN PORTER Once you lose your reputation, you don't mind it.
BELVA PORTER Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.
DOUG PORTER It was just heart-wrenching to see people's outpouring of sympathy and concern.
DEBORAH PORTER The bottom line is that as long as equities remain aloft, there is precious little outside of Fed ti...
DOUG PORTER The overriding story for the equity market Thursday was the exuberant reaction to Mr. Greenspan's la...
DOUG PORTER The overriding story for the equity market Thursday was the exuberant reaction to Mr. Greenspan's la...
DOUG PORTER A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect
HORACE PORTER We haven't noticed anything at all. Organizers worked things out so rallies could be held outside of...
STEVE PORTER I don't want to hear about that, ... I know how many he's got. Why wouldn't I be jealous? He has a r...
JOEY PORTER Bikers don't seem to mind the rain. It's better than snow and sub-zero temperatures, after all.
CARRY PORTER I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State ...
BILLY PORTER It is a real disappointment to see us make so many mistakes. The mistakes cost us the game. We were ...
MICHAEL PORTER Investors need to do the same degree of comparison shopping they would normally do when choosing bet...
MICHAEL PORTER It's sobering. It suggests that there are relatively few inner cities that are thriving in the sense...
MICHAEL PORTER In the future, ... buying a single country fund will be akin to buying an Iowa fund or a Massachuset...
MICHAEL PORTER We have to assume that Europe has more legs. As long as we have those pillars, we would expect an up...
MICHAEL PORTER Now, there's more value to be unleashed.
MICHAEL PORTER Europe was suffering from a competitiveness crisis.
MICHAEL PORTER One of the things frankly we have to do is demystify (the CIA) a little bit, ... You are not going t...
PORTER GOSS Public Art ain't for the feint of heart.
PORTER ARNEILL We've got some exceptionally talented artists in the Kansas City area who have an opportunity to exc...
PORTER ARNEILL Public art brings variety, energy and life to our public spaces. The One Percent for Art Program com...
PORTER ARNEILL Of the more than 300 similar public art programs in the United States, Kansas City's One Percent for...
PORTER ARNEILL These two projects are some of Kansas City's most exciting additions to recent capital improvement p...
PORTER ARNEILL These two projects add life to Kansas City's already exciting public art scene. The vitality and ene...
PORTER ARNEILL To a large extent, I think the TSE caught a tailwind from the very impressive gains south of the bor...
DOUG PORTER [Bucks Coach Terry Porter said that the maximum number of minutes that forward Keith Van Horn could ...
TERRY PORTER To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful,
PORTER GOSS The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.
PORTER GOSS Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes...
PORTER GOSS The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in con...
PORTER GOSS Dysfunctional organizations do not perform the way the Directorate of Operations performed in Afghan...
PORTER GOSS An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulati...
PORTER GOSS Our national federations are legitimate members, some are stronger, some are weaker.
DON PORTER Forecasts of parity (with the U.S. dollar) are multiplying faster than bunny rabbits in May.
DOUGLAS PORTER Given that there are virtually no other signs that Canadian spending suddenly weakened in February, ...
DOUGLAS PORTER Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in N...
HORACE PORTER I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states com...
JON PORTER Kat didn't want to cook this evening, and this is terribly good food.
BOB PORTER I think we meet on the second Tuesday of each month. I really don't pay much attention to the meetin...
BOB PORTER New York has been a natural extension of our business and has been in our planning for a significant...
BOB PORTER My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fort...
BILLY PORTER The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are ...
MICHAEL PORTER [Porter, who had his surgery Aug. 10, successfully went through three consecutive practices this wee...
JOEY PORTER The general statement is 'You can't grow grapes in Wyoming. That's usually what you get.
JACK PORTER We basically started by going outside shooting. I told the boys that I wanted them to capture images...
GAIL PORTER I've never seen anything like that in my life,
GAIL PORTER We shaved it off in a graveyard in America - could it get any weirder than that?
GAIL PORTER In a way, shaving my head feels like a new beginning to me,
GAIL PORTER