Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rahul Dravid

We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set.

Jane Burke

The fact is you cannot have great schools without the involvement of the entire community, but this information does not tell the whole story, ... We need to look carefully at the data. It is great to be number one in the state, but we mustn't forget that our work is truly about individual children, and until each individual child is getting what he needs, we cannot rest. We know that there are still students who are not yet achieving to their maximum ability.

Trevor St. John

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.

Pam Slaton

We did not ask for it. They knew about us. They were impressed at how an orchestra our size was growing and achieving professional status.

Hector Ruiz

We deserve to have a significantly larger share of the market than we already have. The only thing that's keeping us from achieving those numbers are the illegal, monopolistic actions of our competitor.

Richard Kelly

We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share.

J. Taylor

We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance.

Neville Isdell

This quarter we made further progress toward achieving consistent top-line growth in our business. It completes a transition year in which the company delivered solid unit case volume growth that was well balanced between carbonated soft drinks and noncarbonated beverages.

John Roth

This program did not have any impact on the final results for 1998. We are on target for achieving results that are in line with our guidance for 1998 and 1999.

Stefan Pryor

We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.

Richard Curreri

We have requested the leadership of the TWU to take the actions necessary to direct its membership to immediately return to work and they have agreed to take such actions.

Christine Jackson

The fact that parents who smoke can exert a protective anti-smoking effect on their children might seem counter-intuitive. Other research has already found that strong parental attitudes and actions against smoking reduce the odds of children using tobacco. Our study found that the same is true even when the parents themselves are smokers.

Klaus Toepfer

The extraordinary rise in both human populations and consumption levels leaves us no choice but to take innovative and ambitious actions to reverse the widespread destruction of species and ecosystems,

Jim Ross

The fact of the matter is that the Williams family has guarded that property, kept trespassers off of that property, had contracts to maintain Coronet property, and when they joined the lawsuit, these types of retaliatory actions began.

Gary Weiss

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

Fabian Nunez

There are a lot of areas we can tackle and make a difference for California. The question is, are we going to walk down that path or not? When you are in a relationship and have a falling out, you kiss and make up the first night back together. You say the right things. But then you have to make sure actions are consistent with words. It will take some time for us to figure this out.

David Trimble

The people of Northern Ireland will now judge Sinn Fein on their actions over the coming days, ... An end to the war means the weapons of terrorism must be destroyed and all forms of paramilitary violence must cease for good.

Samuel Smiles

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Stewart Iverson

The people of Iowa deserve at least a vote.

John Anthony

Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to.

Lily James

Ultimately, 'Cinderella' is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it.

Tim Williams

We did not deserve to be treated like this after all the work we did,

Sen. Lundby

We deserve to stand up and say we made a mistake. We have an obligation to fix that mistake.

Peter Smith

We deserve to be in the Grand Final.

Ron Wilson

We deserved what we got in the second period.

Jim Bragg

We deserved to win this game. It was a game we needed to win and we deserved to win it because of the way we started to play. The players just talked to each other, and the second half was the way we need to play going into the playoffs.

Kevin Keegan

We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half.

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Johnny Weir

Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Stuart Backerman

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Barry Erwin

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Susan Collins

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Kenneth Branagh

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

Chris Larsen

No-cost loans are pretty popular right now, especially for people with larger loans. The larger your loan, the smaller the penalty for no-cost loans.

Richard Greenfield

One of the things they'd like to do is return more to shareholders, and ... a larger buyback makes a lot of sense at this point.

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.

Carlos Castaneda

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Brent Spiner

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

Selvin Young

We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us.

Dianne Feinstein

I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

Dianne Feinstein

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.