Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Pryor

reaping substantial profits from (the recordings) without ever having acquired any rights in such recordings.

LaJuana Wilcher

Paris Charles has truly been an asset to this administration, bringing vast knowledge acquired through 28 years in the mining industry and a sincere personal commitment to mine safety.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

Peace can only be acquired through economic development to eliminate poverty and despair and through dialogue and understanding

Yang Yuanqing

Our mobile handset unit delivered strong and profitable growth, and, more importantly, the acquired PC business was profitable worldwide,

E. B. White

Oracle is an applications company and it only makes sense that they will want to eventually move acquired customers over to their technology stack,

Yang Yuanqing

Our results validate the expectations we have when we acquired the business and reinforced our convictions that we have a model for ongoing profitability,

Pat Riley

I think they've turned the corner. They've acquired a tremendous amount of talent.

Danny Maciocia

Kwame has been a first-class individual since we acquired him and this is just my way of trying to accommodate him, because I think he deserves to play.

Jim Scarborough

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

Wang Yonggan

Related government bodies should come up with more practical targets of China's gas power development.

Cliff Cary

Our main lesson is all about team work. The overall idea is to give kids a fun and safe environment, so they can use their bodies and their minds, instead of watching TV.

Klaus Steinbach

Sports bodies and the state can fight doping together without having to limit the independence of sport.

Rhonda Faehn

Some of their bodies were hanging on there by a thread at the end.

Frank Minyard

Some people are just now getting back to their homes and to the homes of their relatives. The bodies are still coming in.

Jennifer Armintrout

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

Joanna Lumley

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Howard Duvall

Right now some 60 entities in South Carolina have eminent domain powers, and it's been discussed generally (in the General Assembly) to commit it to elected bodies and some others like the Department of Transportation and the Ports Authority.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

E. B. White

Real world, certain positions come with certain perks, and I'm not opposed to having certain perks as long as there's no hint of impropriety

Fernando Martin

Real will have 99 percent of its squad ready by June 30, that's for certain and will have a new coach in two weeks.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Anne Sinclair

Parts of the city have been waiting for their turns for years, and their turn has finally come. I'm not certain that there's a sense on City Council to change direction.

Scott Skiles

Paul pretty much has his way with us the whole night. There are certain rookies who come into this league and are ready to play and he is definitely one of them.

George Bennett

Succinate is a high-priority chemical that the U.S. Department of Energy has targeted for biosynthesis.

David Sherman

Some of these children have eaten batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain, which is why the kitchen cupboards are locked,

Charles Davis

I think (this crime) was a direct result of his chemical dependency.

Ato Essandoh

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.

David Gregory

I think she is doing a fantastic job at trying to drag the chemical industry into the 21st century, yet retaining a pragmatism which her role demands.

Greg Shaw

If in fact today in Washington, D.C., someone hopped on the radio and said there's been a chemical release, someone will tell you to stay, others will tell you to leave. Who are you going to believe?

Jane Lauder

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

David Rosenberg

Katrina's effects are being felt nationally-on the nation's transportation arteries, supply chains, chemical plants, airlines, leisure/hotels, gasoline prices everywhere and retailing. The commercial impact is widespread.

Andy Watson

It could be a chemical spill, a train derailment,

Chris Witty

I felt guilty. This was a neighbor my parents entrusted me with. He was a great guy, as far as they knew.

George Fox

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

Trey Gowdy

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

John Chrysostom

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Boris Johnson

I've always known my life would be turned into a farce. I'm just glad it's been entrusted to two such distinguished men of letters.

Oscar Goodman

They just need to be able to recover so they can go back and do what the Lord has entrusted them to do,

Ali Alatas

I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.

Rep. Andrews

I am prepared to serve the people of our state in whatever position I am entrusted to hold.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Hines Ward

Relieved? Yes, ... I dont wish this on anybody. It was very hard to go out onto the field with peace of mind knowing that youre so close. I can go into the season focused now.

Jerome Bettis

Our quarterback has been incredible. His development on the field is the reason we're here.

Charlie Bell

Our offensive line was outstanding, our open field tackling was improved and our inside linebacker play was improved.

Herman Edwards

Our mindset was to get him in the game to kick field goals and he did that,

Herman Edwards

Our mind-set was to get him in the game to kick field goals, and he did that.

David Rehr

Our middles didn't do much the last time we played them. In our previous two matches (against Lee), Haley had 16 kills and our other two middles each had one, so we doubled our middle totals because that's something Lee hadn't seen before. They were worried about our outside hitters because they had a field day before.

Joe Tiller

Surprisingly, the injury isn't too serious. We thought he might have been able to hold for field goals but he wasn't able to.

Richard Barnes

States can be leaders in the field of biotechnology while holding firm to moral principles and the protection of human life.

Howard Wolfson

Spitzer has been raising money for a while, whereas Pataki's indecision froze the field and prevented Republicans from raising money until relatively late in the game.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Steven Johnson

I think you need to lower your industrial tax rates.

Steve Roukis

If the stock is off for any reason today, it's because some of the other industrial peers raised expectations.

Jacques Chirac

must seek to take the lead in industrial and research innovation.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

Brian Rogers

The prospective is amazing. You really get the feel of looking down on this Pittsburgh industrial neighborhood.

John Wright

I think we could use it for industrial purposes or educational purposes,

Al Jourgensen

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Barry McGuire

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

Karl Lagerfeld

Italian craftsmanship is really our treasure. So we're very proud of that and we try to do everything by hand.

Renato Turano

Italy has been split in half. This is an opportunity for Italians to come together, whether we're in Italy or living abroad.

John Scully

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Benito Mussolini

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

Benito Mussolini

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

Benito Mussolini

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

Benito Mussolini

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

Benito Mussolini

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Jennifer Gray

He did research on the Internet. He stalked the house. He stalked my brother. He's cold, he's calculating and he took out his competition.

Skylar Astin

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Mike Bradley

Heretofore it's not had all that research and those developments under one roof and under one coordinated organizational structure.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Charles Kettering

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Charles Kettering

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Mike Wallace

All I'm armed with is research.

Burt Rutan

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

Burt Rutan

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

Bill Engvall

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

Kirk Hammett

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'

Florentijn Hofman

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

Peter O'Toole

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

Mike Anderson

Don't overestimate your power. This is not a rubber stamp deal.

Henry David Thoreau

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

Fred Brown

If I had a rubber band, I would have yanked it back.

Tom Cole

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Eric Jackson

If the studies are accurate, we can see Oaklawn take it to new levels.

Steven Nissen

We've been misled many times by observational studies like this,

Gerardo Cardenas

They shouldn't have their studies interrupted because of the situation.

Matthew Daus

This is one of the most important studies we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

Lars Trier

I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.

Brian Dickmann

He was disappointed in his finish, but I wasn't. He had two lifetime-best swims, so you can't be too disappointed. He swam well. It's a tough task to make it to state.

Atharva Veda

He, who works incessantly, accomplishes any task that he undertakes!

Ed O'Brien

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

Aldrich Ames

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

Sergei Krikalev

We're done with our tasks on the expedition.