Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mahowald

Real-time collaboration is the hot button of the future. It's being built into sales force automation tools, (customer relationship management and) accounting.

Steve Duplessie

Our research confirms that Oracle Automatic Storage Management delivers high performance, more reliable automation and simplified operations, ... This capability delivers previously unattainable levels of storage management efficiency through highly automated, application-centric rules and policies.

Michael Kane

Pasco is growing, and we needed to grow with it. We will be a defined auto plaza on 16 acres.

Cheng Meiwei

Our long-term goal is to become one of the top three automobile manufacturers in China.

Chris Corrigan

Our long-term capital investment program in ports will move to a new phase next month with the opening in Brisbane of our world-first automated straddle carrier terminal,

Mikel Haas

Our only choice is to work through this as best we can. Is this all working smoothly in an automated fashion? No, there's a lot of grunt work involved.

Robert Ebel

People need that auto and won't stop buying gasoline because of a price rise. We can look forward to another tight summer.

Gary Chaison

People looked at jobs in the auto plants like property, like something that they owned, something that could be passed down from father to sons. That was pretty much making it for a lot of people.

Ernie Goss

Survey results, while somewhat weaker than the rest of the nation, continue to point to growth for Missouri in the months ahead. Of course challenges and opportunities related to automobile industry restructuring will be an important driver in the near and intermediate term.

Tom Graham

Four years ago, things were so bleak in parts of the area, but we've had exciting news in Russell County that is invigorating. This is a real turnaround point for us.

Willie Randolph

I feel very positive. No matter how bleak it might look, this clubhouse is going to stay positive.

Patrick Sheehan

If they cut tournaments, the little guys play less and the big guys make more money. At least now, the little guys can play and make money. ... If the rumors are true, it's looking pretty bleak for middle-of-the-road guys.

John Wade

Obviously, he's a great talent, but I think we've opened holes for him at times. At the same time, I think he's made us better at times when things looked bleak as far as the holes. It's a group thing. It's us working for him and him working for us. It's worked out well.

Ann Cleeves

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

Steve Morrison

Life would be pretty bleak for humans on this planet if we don't have very many species to share the Earth with.

Geoff Luebkemann

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Steve Williams

This run is not as potentially bleak as we thought, but we're putting everyone on notice of a possible closure.

Noel Yuhanna

Oracle RAC has come a long way in establishing itself as a key technology in delivering unparalleled high availability and scalability solutions for Oracle databases. Forrester estimates that there are more than 1,200 customers who are currently using RAC in production, and this is likely to double in the next 12 to 18 months as enterprises look to deploy low-cost commodity servers and extend their applications to support higher availability.

Ronald Neysmith

Standard & Poor's does not expect major margin improvement in fiscal 2006 for the larger players. Even though commodity prices have stabilized, they remain at historical highs.

Peter Byrne

Some of these commodity stocks continue to surprise us today.

Victor Shum

Some of the commodity investors went back into the market with the Iranian issue still looming as a worry.

John Lau

Our strong operating results in the third quarter of 2005, bolstered by continuing high commodity prices, should lead to a record year for the company.

Glenn Tilton

other U.S. competitors who provide a commodity product with the barest minimum of service.

Sherry Cooper

Right now, the acceleration in commodity prices tips the scales for a 16th and a 17th rate hike by the Fed.

Jerry Hunton

Red dirt is a big commodity because of all the growth in the area. It gives that solid foundation everybody's looking for.

Greg Nichols

We note that the judge has explicitly said that, irrespective of any intellectual property, database, or other rights, BHB has, in the data, a valuable commodity for which it is entitled to charge.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Ike Skelton

Our military's unmet needs are at record levels. We are seeing the costs and strains of sustaining a military at war.

Cal Jillson

People know we're running huge deficits and they know the costs have just rocketed upward. Many Americans are now looking at the Iraq situation in that context.

D. James

Steel costs are expected to increase another 20 percent this month alone.

Colleen Kelley

Staggering increases in the price of gas are having serious ripple effects throughout the economy and forcing employees to dip into their own packets to cover the costs of fuel. This is an untenable situation for these workers.

John Caudwell

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

Michael Gray

Some funds might not start up because they perceive these costs as being too high.

Pat Stewart

Our productivity is way up and costs have gone way down.

Kazuo Okamoto

Our goal is to reduce the costs of gasoline-hybrids, get a lot of people driving them, and then think about diesel-hybrids.

Bill Gates

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.

Larry Spell

Some of these problems are the result of planning decisions made decades ago.

Troy Clarke

Over 50 percent of the total growth in the automotive world in the next decade will be in Asia.

Wayne King

It is a picture postcard lost for eight decades in the mail.

Jim Lee

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

John Ortberg

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

Anders Rasmussen

The 1990s were the decade of mega-summits. I think we should make the next 10 years the decade of action.

Tom Brady

I think it takes more than three years. We need to string together a decade or two to match something like that.

Condoleezza Rice

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

Bill Bradley

. . . I think I do understand the dynamics

Scot Pollard

I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.

Brad Childress

I don't feel we're struggling to run the football. I think we've been in some games with different dynamics where you weren't comfortable standing there thinking, 'I'm going to run it between the tackles.' That probably wouldn't be a good thing to do if you're down 17 or 20 points.

Rick Church

Never before have we had so many women in combat. Historically these women are single moms and the heads of the household. As they come home those dynamics are going to be very intense to watch.

John Snow

We're simply making an inquiry to make sure we're on top of the situation in the Treasury markets, ... The reason to do this is simply to make sure that we're on top of the situation, understand the dynamics of that market.

Gina Bellman

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

Bruce Vilanch

The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

Mark Mahaney

Expedia faces some very challenging industry dynamics right now, and we will have to wait and see whether the new team is up to the task,

Tom Anderson

You can feel surfaces, you can feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.

Douglas Laycock

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

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Richard Dodd

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

O. Henry

Because of the long-term complications of cocaine use, we are looking at a healthcare time bomb,

Bill Bradley

He has misrepresented my healthcare plan time after time after time, and I called him on it,

Grier Stanley

We really need them to stay there because the numbers over there are ridiculous. It's important that they stay healthy to provide healthcare there.

Donald Trump

Our healthcare is a horror show.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

Craig Ferguson

Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

Juan Williams

While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

Bob McDonnell

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Carl Hiaasen

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Sandra Gordon

Our Sunday masses have increased and we have new enrollment at our masses. I think our parish is going strong with 50 percent of its members back.

Nicholas Garganas

Risks that could strengthen inflationary pressures have increased after the interest-rate increase in December.

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Al Groh

I think it's been a positive spring for Chris, mostly because he's had an increased opportunity to demonstrate his skills now that he's taking the majority of the turns.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Kathleen Stoll

Had it not been for these (government) programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even more in each of the past several years.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Tom Burns

Our value proposition for advisors is very strong. We learned that it pays to invest in our people.

Allan Katz

Retailers who haven't already invested in a POS system think they are too expensive.

Pat Summitt

I think they understand there is a lot of tradition here, and there's a lot of players that are upset. I've had phone calls. That just speaks volumes to what they've invested in this program. Still, they are like family. When we lose, they lose.

Boris Yeltsin

It is a significant sum for those who invest in Russia.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Steve Wood

That's what I'm most proud of about this team - the senior players are leading by example. It's a lovely thing to see.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Jeremy Shockey

He's going to be leading us to the playoffs for a lot of years to come.

Mark Leyner

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

Thomas O'Brien

He has a young outlook on life. He's just a wonderful, wonderful role model. He's just young at heart.

Alan Greenspan

More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation,

Anna Mouglalis

My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me.

Aubrey Plaza

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Christian Maher

The outlook is worse than we had hoped.

Stuart Murray

The outlook for the remainder of the year is positive.

Tom Tang

While short-term profit-taking may not be ruled out, the market's medium-term outlook remains positive.

George Benson

The outlook for Georgia, I'm pleased to say, is good.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Sathya Baba

Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Jay Hakkinen

I think this will live with me for the rest of my life.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Robert Mitchell

I think it smells good, like rising bread, but some don't like it,

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Ludwig von Mises

Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Bonnie Raitt

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

Bethany Mota

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

Chris Dancy

It has slowed some, but the trend is still down.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

John Slenker

This trend has been going on for a long time.

Betsy Beers

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!

John Stayton

We are in a sense bucking the trend in most MBA programs.

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.