Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eamon

Recent events on the national level show that response times are critical,

Michael Eisner

Recent events make this a particularly challenging and somewhat anomalous time for our company,

Brian Woods

Our research shows that for events like the Super Bowl, (groups) are often gathering in the home of an HDTV owner.

Grant Woods

Sporting events will no longer feature anything to do with tobacco,

Alan Justad

Some of the harmonics of seismic events will reveal some surprising results.

Darl Keller

Our field events did great. We got a first in the throwing. ... We used some freshmen and sophomores in the (400 relay) and got second. That is nice.

Timothy Ghriskey

Overall, the issue for the market right now is oil. Today it seems to be about the events in Nigeria, but with oil it's been just one issue after another lately.

Erik Skarvan

Out of all these great events around here, none are dog-friendly. What we do in our free time for normal recreation we do with our dogs, so why keep leaving them at home? This way you don't have to leave your friend at home and they can share in the experience.

Charles Moore

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Walter Kirn

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

Vicki Lawrence

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

Rose McIver

Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants.

Don DeLillo

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Clive Cussler

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

David Byrne

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

David Letterman

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

Patti Smith

We are testing things all the time on the site.

Carl Crawford

We would do start-up testing in 2014 or 2015.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

David Wright

It's not as though they can say we've done a lot of testing without the beacon.

Larry Schnall

It's a state-of-the-art vehicle that we're testing right now.

Emile-Auguste Chartier

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Brian Hall

Third-party testing is a validation of the process,

Mark Williams

There will be a long and testing time for him, but we'll wait and see how he comes through,

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!