Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Mike Rodriguez

Our recommendation should be to start one facility that could handle about 100 people and see how it works. If successful, it could be duplicated in other areas of the county.

Ravi Pawar

Patrolling in markets and crowded areas has been intensified and posters and leaflets are being put up educating the public to be careful about suspicious packages.

Gary Mar

Part of managing Alberta's parks and recreation areas is ensuring the proper enforcement tools are in place, ... We did a comprehensive review and have brought the penalties for violating parks regulations more in line with penalties for offences under other Alberta laws.

Charles Hood

Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains. We're just now getting into the areas that experienced the most rapid inundation.

Peter Johnson

Paul was an excellent journalist and excellent educator, and he did a great job of combining those two areas in the Native Media Center.

Roger Little

Spire is pleased to be awarded this contract by Unison, a further confirmation of Spire's strength in turnkey PV production line capabilities.

Julane Sullivan

Our programs are developed so each child is given an opportunity to learn, perform and gain confidence. We guarantee each child a role, and an opportunity to be challenged and develop as an actor. By creating original scripts, we can insure that each child is awarded a role that will give them ample stage time and a role suited to developing their skill sets.

W. S. Gilbert

(Outraged fans) wanted to establish the principle that the NHL does not own the Cup, that it's owned on trust, to be awarded to the best team yearly in accordance with what Lord Stanley had said way back in 1892.

Colin Brown

We need motivated educators, and bureaucrats aren't helping anything, ... If they prove motivated, dedicated educators, tenure should be awarded quickly. Why should the best teachers worry about whether they'll be teaching tomorrow?

James Smith

That was Valor Day, when the New York Police Department hands out medals. She's wearing the medal they awarded Moira, the department's highest honor, the Medal of Honor.

Jim Reilly

I think money should be awarded on the basis of risk and need, ... I don't think that was the manner in which it was disseminated.

Richard Scruggs

Given the level of risk that we undertook, which included the expenditure of millions of dollars of our own money, the attorneys' fees awarded in this case (are) entirely justified and consistent with precedent.

Van Huyssteen

We have to be careful not to undo things that are good. The decision was taken and I was part of it. The Test has been awarded to the Leopards and one would need a compelling reason to take it away again.

Shuji Nakamura

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

Gregory Melich

Management cited a narrower assortment of handsets, ramp up of expertise on the activation process, and fewer-than-expected promotions as reasons for the softness.

William Holmes

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren't in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Bob Gorman

This year's investment themes are highly consistent with those we cited in 2005. Overall, investors can expect steady, but not spectacular progress in their portfolios in 2006.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have no evidence at all that the allegation you cited is correct, ... I am sure it is not.

Kelly Quinn

While users cited opportunities for improvement with each vendor, the level of satisfaction with all server vendors rated in this survey was very high within the market overall.

Russ Salsman

If somebody is cited and they want to resolve that ticket, it's here instantaneously.

E. Howard Hunt

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

Charlie Glavin

We were previously looking for revenue of $16.1 million and earnings per share of one cent. Weak demand for PCs and flat-panel displays were cited as the culprits.

Maeve Binchy

I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

Ada Yonath

The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

Michael Cristofaro

They (the Institute for Justice) want people to remain in their homes.

Steve Maviglio

The Rose Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.

Larry Ellison

The Independent Institute is neither independent nor an institute,

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Richard Ratner

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Howard Davidowitz

Kohl's is struggling badly. Not only are the not meeting sales targets, there are several questions swirling about recent management changes,

Pam Iorio

We need a whole matrix of measurements, ... Right now, we can't say what our strengths and weaknesses are. We don't have the data.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

Alfred Bea

The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

Marcus Aurelius

To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

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.

Christopher Lasch

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Philip Sellwood

If we are going to have a sustainable, low-carbon society then we have to have low-carbon (supporting) citizens.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Homaro Cantu

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Albert Einstein

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Albert Einstein

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.