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.

Ernie Grunfeld

Our number one priority is to keep our own players, ... Larry Hughes's situation we want to deal with first, and then we have some other free agents we also want to deal with.

Steve Nickerson

Our mission is to give real estate agents the recognition they deserve by giving their clients a voice and a platform in which consumers can read reviews from others' experiences.

Subcomandante Marcos

Surely the agents of the government, businessmen and political parties have sent to inform you what happens here. After hearing us and hearing you, they will write in their report a false alarm. There's nothing to be worried about. The suspects are crazy and they haven't noticed each other. End of report.

James Harris

Some of the rumors out there are true and some are not. I imagine people hear about some of the workouts, then I imagine that some of the agents put information out there so that their player's stock appears to be on the rise. Then somebody doesn't run well, so his stock supposedly drops. But for us, it's more of a process.

Jose Bautista

Some of the free agents we signed have been known to hit home runs. And I think some of our young players have pretty good pop, as well. It's just a matter of time until we're hitting like this consistently.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our people are used to these kind of incidents, and our intelligence agents found the footprints of Britain in the same incidents before,

Mark Davies

Our special agents haven't seen (such) a widespread investigation since the days of Jesse James,

Bob Woehrle

Our software allows agents to send out automatic e-greetings on birthdays, anniversary, the changing of the clocks twice a year. Remembering customers at times they would not expect you to remember them has a strong emotional appeal.

Matt Carroll

Our focus has always been to anticipate the needs of agents and clients and meet them with the very best marketing and technology tools. Approximately 35 percent of all residential sales in 2004 were second homes. The Windermere Destinations program is in direct response to the steady increase of second home ownership and the need for specialized, results-driven marketing resources for these buyers and sellers.

Bob Carnes

Paul Amos died years ago, but he took a liking to me back then and started cutting molds for me until we got one we liked.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?” Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.

Bill Cosby

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

C. S. Lewis

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

C. S. Lewis

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

C. S. Lewis

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Nariman Behravesh

Record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy.

Toby Chaudhuri

President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.

Scott Nichols

Participation in this league has been outstanding this season. Our numbers have more than doubled in the last three years, and it is great fun to have all that new energy in the league.

Kathleen Hogan

Partners like USAA Real Estate Co. are national leaders in energy efficiency.

Gary Grandbois

PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are still looking at double-digit growth in PCs.

Seimone Augustus

Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top. I felt I needed to do something to step up my game.

Kevin Wright

Our live show is very entertaining. It's energy filled. We love to banter back and forth with the audience.

Spencer Abraham

Our national energy policy will stress the need to diversify America's energy supply,

Mike Duffy

Starting now, farmers need to think more cautiously about their energy use.

Gus Van Sant

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

S. Jay Olshansky

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

Tatiana Maslany

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

Mayor Goulbourne

I do not support an extension in any way. We have made our moves and we will wait for a response.

Bud Selig

I am going to finish with my extension in 2009 and that will be it for me. I'll be 75 years old at that point and guys get out of jail faster for goodness sakes.

Marshall Bloom

It is a logical extension of what had gone on here virtually 100 years.

Jim Livengood

There is an extension in the works for two more years.

Kelly Walsh

There aren't many full-time yoga teachers. Most of us teach as an extension of our own practice. It helps keep you going on your path if you're teaching other people.

Mike Berry

We may have some opportunities to do some future development with them in an extension of this partnership.

Sharon Bolton

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

Darrell Smith

People may lie to you over the phone, but they may not lie to you looking at you face to face.

Paul Nocito

St. Anthony's was one of the better shooting teams we have faced this year.

Dick Todd

Stan Jonathan was one of the toughest guys I've ever seen, but after a fight his face would look like it had gone through a Mixmaster. Tie never got a scratch on him.

Ivette Mendez

Some of the faces that remain are those that Jon felt could do that job best. He wasn't going to replace people just to replace people.

Bob Coolen

Our players are ready to face somebody else.

Jason Bay

Roger wasn't as sharp as the other times we've faced him,

Ned Yost

Rodriguez was really good today. The last time we faced him he was just OK.

Richard Tischler

Playing a quality team like Marietta really boosted our guys up. We had four tough games that started (Tuesday) with Marietta, and Marietta was a measuring stick for us and the toughest team we faced so far.

David Marin

Re-branding FEMA doesn't fix the problem; it just puts a new acronym on it.

Bob DiBiasio

Our female market demographic research showed there were 200 percent more women watching Indians games last season. Grady is the big reason. It's manifested in the 'Mrs. Sizemore' T-shirts.

Mike Ross

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

Serena Williams

I'm here to play female tennis. I've never been involved in men's tennis. . . . I wouldn't be tempted.

Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Alaina Huffman

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Angelle Sampey

That was awesome. I was really hoping it was going to happen (having three female winners).

Carrie Underwood

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monumental moment for me, a milestone in my life and my career.

John Palmer

Part B is going to have to go up significantly next year.

Travis Reinsch

Patrick is already talking about getting ready for next season.

Linda Connolly

Pawling is the next Bedford. That's what all the realtors are saying.

Charles Hamowy

People in their 40s and 50s have to plan for the next 50 years.

Pete Carroll

Surgery may be down the road. It's not at all the time to do that. If after about two weeks he hasn't responded, then (team doctors) have to think more seriously about what the next step is.

Richard Myers

surely the next 9/11 would be right around the corner.

Chad Belville

Somehow we're going to go from being a young team this year to even younger next year. I don't know how it was possible, but it's just a fact.

Sam Paul

Some have put in a lot of time and really want to make it to the next level.

Richard Boucher

Our view is that it should be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That's where we think the next steps are.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

J. M. Roberts

We see some representatives out here, but I think most sit in their offices and don't see the people that they affect,

Peter Gould

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Patrick Moore

There are a lot of strains on the infrastructure, our roads, our schools, and I think that sometimes the problems haven't been anticipated.

Jeff Berman

I feel sorry for George. He's a troubled person. He seemed to have some psychological problems.

Johnny Smith

For years, we have had problems with the water down here. But nothing has ever been done about it.

Peter Ashkenaz

From everything we've seen, those problems are in the past.

Kristin Accipiter

I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Jim Mora

I wouldn't say we let down our fans, but we wanted to go 9-7 and get rid of that 40-year problems we've had. We didn't get that done.

Ken Cohen

If we had a silver bullet, we would be proposing it to Washington right now.

Robert Wyatt

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal,

Dennis Godfrey

This year, what we are proposing is one more step in the process.

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.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Judy Parfitt

That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing.

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Javier Solana

We are going tomorrow to get very serious on Sudan.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Elaine Elliott

Langhorne pretty much had her way. We are what we are in terms of our size. We're not talking about shutting her down.

Conan O'Brien

Donald Trump has come out in favor of shutting down Planned Parenthood. However, experts say, if he really wants Planned Parenthood to go under he should turn it into a Trump property.

Richard Sherman

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Richard Engel

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

Elias Levy

They're not getting infected, but they're still shutting down.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.