Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fadel Gheit

Part of the reason (companies are having trouble adding real reserves) is that there has not been an elephant discovery -- one over a billion barrels -- for 15 years.

Barbara Petersen

Our list is already three pages long, and we're adding on a regular basis.

Alan Miller

Step back and review your practices to make sure all your inputs are adding value and paying their way. In particular, you've got to give the high-cost items some attention. Where you get the most savings on a percentage basis may be in finding even a small reduction on a very expensive item, like fertilizer.

Don Gher

Starbucks is doing a remarkable job of adding new drinks and more stores, and the pace hasn't slowed one bit.

Brendan Morrison

Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points we're losing out on. To win games you've got to score goals, and we just aren't doing that.

Jim Taylor

Our success both on and off the pitch, particularly last season, has put us in an excellent position to grow our business. Adding both Sunderland of England and the L.A. Galaxy of MLS to our schedule speaks volumes about the growth of the Portland Timbers. It's shaping up to be a most exciting season.

E. O. Wilson

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Jane Johnson

Our goal here is to have a dialogue. We're not adding any new rules or making state standards more difficult to attain. We want to create a level playing field and safe food services.

Jim Maloney

Our feeling was that this would make it a better fit for San Francisco. Adding in the component of LGBT service would be obviously quite unique.

Linda Lingle

Regardless of the legal basis of the decision this is not a just decision,

David Obey

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.

Tim Purpura

Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations, ... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.

Leigh Ross

Our offense knows it has struggled lately, but we're still of the opinion that seeing good pitching on a consistent basis by playing such a tough non-conference schedule will continue to make us better for our MAC run.

Jamie Jackson

People make too much out of whether we're inverted or not. It's as if when we're positive by a couple of basis points, everything is OK, but if we're negative by a basis point, somehow the laws of nature have been violated. The reality of it is the curve is just flat.

William Frey

People make moves largely on the basis of they've got jobs somewhere, housing costs. But lifestyle, people generally don't take that into account. If you have an opportunity, stay there for a couple of weeks. Sit down and talk to people who have just made that move. Find out what issues they have.

Ned Riley

Some of the governors are going to challenge another 50 basis point (half a percentage point) reduction that many people would like. I think they'll be guarded in their commentary and that may be one of the catalysts for the market to correct.

David Velasquez

Our program is about improvement on a weekly basis and today we had a dozen kids (in the girls meet) that really improved.

Neal Hunter

Our product provides comfort, convenience, safety, and savings, while contributing to the reduction in global energy consumption. We believe we must deploy our technology on a rapid global basis to help relieve the pressures on our energy infrastructure.

David Wood

Stay-at-home parents like Marge perform many household services that would expensive to replace, and consequently have a significant need for life insurance.

Marge Simpson

Stay-at-home parents like Marge perform many household services that would be expensive to replace, and consequently have a significant need for life insurance.

James Harden

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.

Adam Jaffe

largest and most expensive marketing failure since the Edsel.

Linda Ford

Land is the hardest thing to find. Westchester is just too expensive for us.

Alan Levine

That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even move people to other homes he owned. But when it comes to patient safety, it's nonnegotiable.

Brian Moody

That's the kind of feature you might find on a more expensive car.

David Hamilton

That's the most expensive wood floor that you will ever see in a grocery store.

John Bolduc

That's because our market is a fairly expensive market, and condos are normally a lower price.

Richard Hoffmann

Part of this is really finding the right match. We have some great candidates.

Jim Burns

People have found nuggets here. I'm finding some fine gold. But I sure won't get rich.

Carolyn Peck

Our team did a very good job of finding Danielle and our seniors showed great leadership down the stretch. Sarah Lowe did a tremendous job of finding Danielle and then after she hit one, did a good job of finding her again. That strategy of going to and finding the hot hand worked. Danielle had the guts to step up and want to win the game. She wasn't tentative or hesitant and played like a senior.

Mark McClellan

Our surveys show that, 5-to-1, people are very satisfied with the program. For people who have had problems, we're finding the problems and fixing them.

Christopher Davis

Rogers is finding value in some unusual places.

Gary Snyder

(Resort) players are finding that bunker. I can tell; they don't rake the sand.

Farooq Kathwari

People who purchased three or four years back, today are finding money to redecorate their homes.

John Ernst

We not only have Sanders' homestead, we have his boat, ... People are gradually finding it ... . More and more people are calling, making inquiries.

Bill Bryson

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Geraldine Brooks

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

David Payne

Our plan is to use the items on one test and not on subsequent administrations of test.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Robert Baird

We've been working on this for years, ... It's not going to be fail-proof. It's going to take some time to get items in order, but the system works well in the states that have it.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Reuben Brewer

People need to be careful. See what you're paying for the perk.

Phil Angelides

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

Brett Hoselton

That's a very costly program. You're paying people not to work.

Marcus Greer

I think he's very set on his work ethic. And I think he's getting what he deserves. He's put the time in to do what he's wanting to do, and it's paying off for him.

Shawne Merriman

I wouldn't be paying what I'm going to end up paying just for LaVar's number.

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Greg Lynn

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Doug Harris

We weren't in our regular routine, and I could tell in our practices we were somewhere else.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

Gary Gray

It's sort of a research update. We give growers an update of what practices seem to be most beneficial.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

David Stern

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season

John Carioba

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Dr. Wyman

Somebody has to review everything to make sure it was done right.

Tom Rathbun

We welcome any independent review of what we do.

Blake Lively

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Jeff Moss

Today (Tuesday) will be security review day for a lot of places,

Margaret Moggio

I would like to be sure this has been reviewed by the G.L.E.N. Committee. We want to save as much as possible.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Bill Cowher

I was just one small part of this, trust me.

Brad Radke

I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Aaron Sanchez

I think I can find a house, ... but a small house.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Roy Wilsher

There are still some small bund (concrete container) fires, but the tanks are out.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

Jason Venable

Stephen Munoz really stepped up when Thomas went out.

Dave Huppert

Someone is going to have to step up for us.

John Connelly

Our forwards were very disappointing. They have to step up to the mark.

Dan Furmansky

Overall, it's a step in the right direction.

David Cameron

We'll be able to comply. But now we're working to take it a step further.

Anthony Gonzalez

I was just tired. When he took me down I said, ?this kid's tough.' So I stepped it up.

Doug McCrary

I think we can play better. We're winning, and we've got to go one step at a time." ()

Charlie Bell

I think this woke us up. As a team, we stepped it up a bit.

Scott Roembke

I think we're just going to take it one step at a time just like we've been doing all week.

Shellie Samuels

Sure they were suspicious that night. No question! They're cops. That's their job,

Bubba Scott

Sure it's nerve-wracking when it's so close. But you get used to them and compete.

Peter Jacobsen

Sure I do. After all, I know Tonya Harding.

Genderen Stort

Resettlement for sure has become more difficult. They don't see the pressing need any more.

David Fox

I'm here to make sure we get things resolved.

Dave Shoji

I think they just wanted to get some confidence. I'm sure he wanted to see better play out of his starters.

Brian Levy

I think there will be a place for him in this league. I'm not sure where it will be.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Jamelah Leddy

I think there's a lot of value there.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.

Sean Bersell

It has always been about value and convenience.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.