Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Joe Archuleta

Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.

Billy Donovan

Our margin for error is small. We are not more talented than any team we play against.

Todd Fairbourne

Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.

John Marhefka

Overall records are misleading, we are treating the PSAC West schedule as a new season and we are pushing for a PSAC playoff spot. We must execute better and our margin of error is very small right now.

Brent Hand

Mallory had a great tournament and she is just a sophomore. She only had one hitting error in all of the games, which is pretty amazing.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

C. S. Lewis

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

C. S. Lewis

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

John McNeley

Reed has solidified things. He handles the ball. He gives us some strength and some athleticism.

Pita Sharples

Our options are to support whoever gives Maori a good deal, or otherwise we sit alone.

Carolina Herrera

Some of them are matte jersey, some of them are chiffon mixed with lace that gives the impression that they are very, very transparent but very, very light.

Roger Gerlach

Playing them at Carbondale, whether we won or lost, gives us a sense of the unknown, and likewise for them. It takes the mystery out of it.

Eric Maiwald

Management and security vendors were doing the same thing and suddenly all noticed it. Good management or good systems management gives you security benefits.

Paul Reddick

It is a proprietary system, and that gives us pause.

Carolyn Brown

It is a project that gives all of us hope. Our kids that come from all walks of life. When they come to us we have to take them where they need to go.

Bill Cowher

Jerome Bettis, he gives you something. He's a very special back. ... You see him running and jumping and jump-cutting, doing the things that he does.

Bill Cowher

Jerome Bettis, he gives you something. He's a very special back.

Dixie Carter

Our philosophy is if it's been done before, we'd better do it better. We think people will be hooked when they see things like the six-sided ring, the Six Sides of Steel matches and Ultimate X matches. (Our guys) can do things you've never seen.

Sophie Hannah

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Pat Coleman

It hooked me and the rest of the school and was our impetus to really push into the technology area.

Randy King

He remains sedated and hooked up to life support at Harrisburg Hospital, and we, Harrisburg police, much to our chagrin, have to provide around-the-clock security until Indianapolis police can take him back there.

Tom McKibbin

I got a station tour and I was hooked all over again.

Eva DeHart

He got hooked on the loving nature of the people.

Frank Sr

We have his PlayStation hooked up. We are trying to keep him as comfortable as possible.

Robert Richardson

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

Ashley Wagner

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

Richard Preece

One of the species on the Azores returned to Europe. It seems that having got there in the first instance a very long time ago, it relatively recently migrated back to Europe.

Seth Shostak

The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.

Steve Moore

We have the responsibility and legal obligation to protect the university's trademarks, which in this instance is the 12th Man.

Charlie Smith

We'll be the first in this instance and that in itself is a rarity. I think we can be quite proud if we do it.

Craig Nesbit

We have never in any instance violated any reporting requirement.

Garrett Hardin

The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit.

Regina Lewis

A site like John Kerry's for instance is very well organized, very straight forward, and that could be paying off for him. It is not as sexy, and it is not talked about as much, but it's awfully practical.

Sun Tzu

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Barnaby Lenon

The main reason why we've set up the international school in Thailand in the first instance was to raise money for Harrow in the UK,

Fiona Shaw

I mainly have a nice time in my life.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Gene Upshaw

Our number has to start with a six.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Scott Morris

Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

Chuck Palahniuk

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Ambrose Bierce

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Michael Moore

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

Allan Urlis

The worst thing to do is not make a telephone call.

Henny Youngman

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill.

Lee Trevino

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

Peter Cardillo

I like American Telephone at 45 and 50,

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Edward Looney

That's the wrong way to do it. It doesn't help.

Warren Littlefield

I think if you're not comfortable with change, you're in the wrong business, ... It's all about change.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Daniel Barenboim

He is right, but what's wrong with that?

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Gary Barnett

I think I said the wrong thing, the wrong way and at the wrong time,