Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Block

What we're seeing now is more saturation in the market. When we started making skate apparel 15 years ago, this was a small market.

Floyd Hall

September comparable sales were on plan, with strength in home appliances and electronics partially offsetting slow fall apparel results due to unseasonably warm weather. Other categories showing strong performance included home decor, outdoor sporting goods, jewelry, stationery, cosmetics and fragrances, cameras and accessories, consumables, seasonal items and pharmaceuticals.

Britt Beemer

Retail sales were pretty good, considering at the start of the season we were looking at $3 gasoline and were still recovering from the hurricanes. Consumers got out early and responded to early-bird specials, but there wasn't much new. There was no hot toy or hot apparel look.

Philip Knight

Nike's business is healthy in every area except one, ... We are enjoying strong results in all of our international regions, and in U.S. apparel and equipment; however, our U.S. footwear business continues to pose challenges.

Laurence Leeds

But despite all the deterrents, consumers are still buying. Wal-Mart's sales were up for the month. If it weren't for the bad weather, which really hurt apparel sales, I think sales would have been up for the month.

Kurt Barnard

Based on what we've heard and seen so far, the fashion apparel stores and department stores are going to be hit with lower profits.

Richard Hastings

New seasonal fashions brought out many apparel shoppers beating our sales expectations for some specialty apparel retailers. Overall, the industry is getting better at fixing short-term merchandising missteps, and October's cooler weather certainly brought out favorable reaction from many shoppers.

John Shanley

Nobody's really busting the doors down to buy women's apparel this fall selling season. Women's dress and casual footwear is probably the strongest I've seen in a good six or seven years.

Dwyane Wade

I am excited to extend my partnership with one of the premier shoe and apparel companies in the world. Converse represents tradition, a passion for sports and has a vision to revolutionize the industry.

Alice Fisher

We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are prosecuting involve small amounts. But we wanted to get out there with these arrests in part to deter people.

Roy Wadia

We've seen that happening in other cases as well, so it's not surprising.

Chris Hoofnagle

The problem with privacy cases is that most privacy plaintiffs have to give up their privacy. In order to sue you have to show up in court and show that they used your phone records.

Peter Neufeld

The real issue is not whether one man was in fact guilty or innocent, it's rather that he set the example for what the other 49 governors should do on the hundreds of cases where DNA material still exists from people who have been executed.

Kevin Teale

We used to see about five cases a month. At the tail-end of December we realized we had a situation on our hands.

Tom Rath

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

Charles de Secondat

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Paul Phillips

There are cases where new evidence causes doubt, but this is not one of them.

Lawrence Eagles

We have responded to a very specific physical supply disruption and we will review that response as we go further forward.

Rob Yingling

The extent to which the disruption is being felt by passengers is minimal at this point because there's been enough taxis from outside operators making pickups.

Lucy Jones

We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, most of our transportation systems. We are going to have a disruption to our infrastructure in a way that is going to take months to recover from.

Bill Adams

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

Phil Bredesen

Until you sit down and talk with someone who's been through this, it's hard to imagine ... the type of disruption this has placed in people's lives,

Kris Gopalakrishnan

FreshWorld is in line with my vision of supporting sustainable technologies in solving problems. I feel this is the next-level disruption in the fruits and vegetables industry.

John Ashcroft

from investigation and prosecution to disruption and prevention.

Barry Diller

I can't imagine that there'll be any disruption of any kind, in any area, on any level or in any particular. It just simply seems to me actually impossible.

Joshua Shapiro

While these orders have been volatile of late, the trend remains a solid one. Whether we will see a disruption in this trend due to the surge in energy prices remains to be seen and will ultimately be more important to markets than today's pre-Katrina outcome.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Barton Gellman

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

Hedi Reynolds

There has been no panic selling and very orderly trading.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Annabelle Selldorf

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

David Lynch

I like things to be orderly.

Walter Bradley

An orderly universe is one described by mathematics,

David Williams

We want a more orderly process and a process that really protects taxpayers,

David Tom

During the whole process, they were all very cooperative. It's been a very orderly process.

Patricia Miller

Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Ivor Novello

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

Mick Johnson

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Scott Haywood

It does not have anything in it to permit us to supplement, modify or amend.

Neal A. Maxwell

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Mike Murdock

The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.

Marion Bartoli

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.

Brent Liskai

We tried everything we had and they had a solution to everything we had.

Heather Fiorentino

I think they're trying to come up with a solution that works.

Jerry Grey

I think Griffins team has come up with a truly workable solution that really does make sense.

Evelyn Ashford

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Andrew Mason

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.