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

Our goal is to make it easy for our visitors to discover some of the best of what's available, ... The programs we are featuring are great for novices and experts alike. Over the next few months, we will be expanding our podcast experience with more exclusive and original programming -- from AOL and from partners -- and adding more advanced search options.

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.

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Michael Carliner

Rebuilding occurred over years, just in the normal course of events -- I don't think we'll have a building surge here.

Max Heindel

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Steve Squyres

Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills.

Wesley Clark

Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. ... We have a long way to go before victory, or at least some measure of success, is assured.

Wesley Clark

Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan,

Peter Uihlein

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

Dave Long

Some of this we'd like to do fairly soon and some of this could be done over the course of the year.

Chris Young

That course is a lot like The Highlands. But regardless, as long as you hit it straight, hit the fairways and putt, you'll score well, and I think we'll do that. During a 56-hole tournament, the top teams usually come to the top.

Chuck Morton

Our price per credit hour is about $110-$115 less than the state schools. So you go to a state institution and try to get into graduate school, it's probably about $350 per credit hour so you're talking about a thousand dollars per course as opposed to $690 per course that we have here. So we think we have a viable product and there is a viable market out there for our product. And we think we're doing the right thing. We're upholding the standards of the institution, just looks good all around.

Christina Guerland

Rebecca stepped into a really difficult situation, and she did a phenomenal job. They really struggled with her.

Marlon Defillo

Our police officers are working under some very trying times. So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be.

Patrick Norman

Our music is something you have to hear. It's always difficult to describe. It's with our own slant, but it's rock 'n' roll nonetheless.

Lawrence Yun

People have been saying that for 20 years. But in San Francisco, it's very difficult to build, so there's a supply constraint. Seattle is also encountering a supply-constraint situation.

Lee Hunter

People later sent me hours of video and newspaper clippings of it, but I haven't look at them since. It was such a difficult weekend.

Lewis Altfest

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

Pavan Duggal

Such rules have proved to be ineffective and enjoy little support on the ground. It is also very difficult to implement them.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Valentino Rossi

Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,

Donna Thompson

Some of the playground equipment that's out there has been there for 50 years.

Dale Flatt

Some of the other ones, the equipment is very expensive and hard to get a hold of. Typically you would do a soil scraping. But, we wanted something that was non-evasive.

Gene Madden

Some of the medium bulldozers can't get in and the heavier bulldozers are having trouble. That stretches our equipment even further.

Jack Boyle

Our first priority was to get all of the students' equipment out of there, as much as we could, for two reasons: to salvage it; we couldn't just rip it down, it was all their equipment, and to see if we could save the structure.

Scott Simons

Our feeds quit because of the equipment failure.

Juliana Hatfield

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

Rebecca Mercuri

Really, it's going to be 2006 before we see any really updated equipment with updated standards.

Lance Wilson

Managed services vendors are primarily the major wireless infrastructure equipment vendors.

Mark Hunter

We've talked to our guys about taking equipment off. We tell them not to do it. I don't know why they do it.

George Carey

People have described me as a ''management bishop'' but I say to my critics, ''Jesus was a management expert too.''

Mayor Baptiste

Our goal had been to find all seven people, but I have to rely on the experts to tell me when they have done all they can do.

Erica Abbett

Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these investigations, there was no indication that the leak was occurring outside.

Kathleen Tierney

We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigative and subpoena powers necessary,

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Peter Goldmark

I went to the government to seek help from our counterterrorism experts, ... The counterterrorism officials then in the White House refused to give us any help.

Mayco Villafana

It is a significant hardening of the infrastructure. It is a recognition that - from everything the experts are saying - that the forecasts are for more intense storm seasons, (which) has made us rethink what we need to do.

Bill Collins

It has been a great year so far. It's been a real joy to see how our students have benefited from these experts in their fields.

Merrill Goozner

It is ludicrous that the FDA could not find highly qualified experts in these fields who did not have ties to the manufacturer.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Thomas a Kempis

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Patti Smith

We are testing things all the time on the site.

Carl Crawford

We would do start-up testing in 2014 or 2015.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

David Wright

It's not as though they can say we've done a lot of testing without the beacon.

Larry Schnall

It's a state-of-the-art vehicle that we're testing right now.

Emile-Auguste Chartier

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Brian Hall

Third-party testing is a validation of the process,

Mark Williams

There will be a long and testing time for him, but we'll wait and see how he comes through,