Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manuel Pangilinan

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Don Mischer

People look at what we do and call us stress junkies. You just say to yourself, 'If I'm going to fall on my butt, what better place to do it than in front of a billion people?

Peter Ashkenaz

States are eventually going to save billions of dollars under the new program. And that's why very few states decided to join this lawsuit, despite requests for them to do so.

Bill Bradley

Our program would cost between $50 and $65 billion to make sure 95 percent of all Americans have health insurance. We can get this right,

Joel Staff

Our priorities for 2006 will include completing the transition to a fully competitive retail market in Texas, converting to an open model in our wholesale business, improving the commercial capacity factor of our generating plants and managing our collateral exposure to reduce postings by $1 billion by year-end.

Ken Bacon

Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.

Werner Braun

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

Jim Redding

Our country currently uses 150 billion gallons of gasoline per year. By contrast, we consume four billion gallons of ethanol. A huge potential for growth exists within this industry.

Joel Fuhrman

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Ryan Holmes

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

Peter Anderson

I work part-time after classes, so I don't get home until late. I really have no time to use the library during the week, when I need it the most. This makes it really hard to get my work done because I need a quiet place to work and my dorm is so noisy.

Chris Carrabba

If someone wants to take us out later, we're game, ... The last time we played in Syracuse, I slept in a dorm room that time.

Thomas Gibson

Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would've kept playing, except I realized that girls don't watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.

Eduardo Saverin

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

Rob Lowe

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Vivek Wadhwa

The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.

Boomer Esiason

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

Danger Mouse

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

Warde Manuel

Reggie didn't come in with the same credentials. But more than me and more than Turner, Reggie has earned his accolades.

Doug Bruno

Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.

Erik Kimrey

Steven's a guy who has worked hard and has earned more playing time. That was a key play in the game, no question.

Dayana Yochim

Spend your tax refund. Because, really, you earned it.

Dan Schmidt

Our fans are really good, and that last group of guys practiced and earned their opportunity, too. They did a good job.

Matt Hasselbeck

Robbie's here, he's earned it, it's a great honor. We joke about it at home, but he's got to be the leader of the offensive line out here.

Jen Green

Jim earned this by working hard all year long. The school is so fortunate to have another state speech champion.

Stacy Baker

That was her game to finish. It didn't matter how long it went. She earned the right to finish it.

Greg Prioleau

That was such a motivating factor for me because, inside, I didn't feel like I earned it. I promised myself I was going to get to state. It started right when we got back from Bakersfield last year.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Pay no attention. These are special interests, ... I kick their butts.

John Stevens

Our trainer is working for the other team and says they're going to kick our (butts). He says they're younger and faster.

Arsene Wenger

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Tom Golisano

I think the town was hungering for something like this. It's been a real kick to watch people rally around this team.

Curt Schilling

Last year had something to do with it, getting kicked around as much as I did. You get tired of it.

Butch Pierre

That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.

William Griffith

That's the number my staff has kicked around over the years.

Stacey Grissom

It is not going to be 14 days, and they are not going to be kicked out of the hotels. Our priority is to make sure these people have a shelter over their heads.

Will Bynum

I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down.

Keith Freeman

Our room for making substitutions -- there wasn't much room.

Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Bill Bruford

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Heather Taylor

It has a lot of room for mischief, ... loophole laden.

Rosie Jones

Laura's never been in our team room so I don't know how she can say that.

Richard Riley

little room for testing or for any slippage in their schedules.

Terrence Holt

I still have my same room over there. I can still crash.

Todd Pratt

I think he really took his conditioning and strength training seriously this year and stayed with it. I've seen him more in the weight room this year than ever.

Fumie Suguri

I still think there is room for improvement. I want to skate better and better each time.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Craig Mathias

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Shane Richardson

We'll be making sure it's up to standard ... we'll make sure before we go there.