Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Michael Ryan

The fact that pay for performance is reinstated demonstrates that council recognizes the quality of staff that we have here. And it shows that they understand the benefits in rewarding and retaining quality service.

Donald Kennedy

The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence.

Robert Bonner

The reality is these are major companies we have dealt with for years .... We got tremendous security benefits by essentially embracing the private sector in what is the largest and most successful government-private sector partnership to form after 9-11.

Sergey Galitsky

When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.

Bob Lennon

We have a solid five and some good competition for those sixth and seventh spots.

Mark Dunkerley

We have no problem with competition. We are happy to take on competitors. But it's a different story when you are playing poker with somebody who's already seen your cards.

Shi Yinhong

We have never before seen so much economic competition, and we have never seen American officials at such senior levels express concern about China's military buildup,

Jacques Herzog

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color,

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Jack Foley

The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.

Taylor Lautner

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

Dusty Baker

Walker is probably the front-runner for that position. But he knows he has some competition for that job.

Jim McNerney

Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness,

Daniel Petrie

What the top tier earns is the engine that pulls everyone else along.

Jesse Chacon

When it was flying over Venezuelan airspace, they had problems with one engine and then with another engine, and at that moment it went down,

David Pogue

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

Carlos Slim

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

Jamie Zawinski

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Chris Bangle

Style is engineering that gives you freedom.

Luke Nosek

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

James Rhodes

We have a ride-along program where they can ride with engines and ambulances.

Bill Yearwood

We have information that the pilot reported engine power loss. He did not report any icing.

Neil Kinnock

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Rick Peterson

This puts him on track to open all our options.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Alan Alda

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Orlando Bloom

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

James Lindsay

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Mark Thompson

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Dick Cheney

My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers),

Larry Ellison

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Ben Shahn

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Burt Shavitz

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

Domhnall Gleeson

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

R. Robinson

First I thought it was stolen. Then I realized it was stolen, but it was just stolen by the tow truck company,

Sarah Polley

But I've realized that I've stuck to a very specific kind of film and a very specific style of acting, and I would like to shake things up for myself.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Kenneth Branagh

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

David Edwards

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

Anupam Kher

There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.

Robert B. Parker

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Russell Tovey

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation.

Darcy Regier

A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.

Valentino Rossi

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Ben Howland

He's righted them with stability and direction. He's done an outstanding job.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Elizabeth Smart

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.