Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Tallent

Our operating efficiency ratio of 58.80% for the quarter is within our long-term efficiency goal of 58% to 60%, reflecting the success of our recent expansion efforts and the continued strength of our existing franchise.

James Lardner

Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.

David Cutcliffe

Steven has had a really good spring. From Day 1, even when we were out there in shorts, his demeanor was what you want in a football player. He has worked extremely hard and has continued to improve every week and every practice.

Greg Stuart

Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright.

Steven Bangert

Our placement on the list reflects the continued strength of our earnings over the past decade, and we have every intention of earning a spot on the Honor Roll for many years to come.

Hunter Harrison

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.

Tom Ryan

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Steven Rogel

Our results reflect the strong U.S. housing market and continued unsettled world markets for pulp, paper and packaging products.

John Reed

Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets,

Don MacKenzie

Overall fuel efficiency has decreased in recent years.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think two things happened. We kind of lost our efficiency on the offensive side of the ball. With Denver, you're going to have to play them for 60 minutes, regardless of where you play, but that's particularly true when you play in Denver. They got the emotion and momentum going and we couldn't get them stopped there at the end when we had to.

Luxon Zembe

It is much better for environmental protection and efficiency of vehicles. It (unleaded fuel) is of a higher quality and would increase efficiency of our machinery.

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Jim Bollman

He's done a very good job as a leader. One of the hardest things to do on offense is be consistent, and he's really done a good job. His passing efficiency (194.0) has been outstanding. He's done a good job of being a disciplined player.

Doug Liman

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Jay Roberson

We need better information on survival rates and recruitment rates of mourning doves. But we have to look at the availability and efficiency of non-toxic shot.

George Bernard Shaw

There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Andrew Lo

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Aldrich Ames

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Kirk Hinrich

Our close-outs have been bad. We haven't been making the second and third efforts that we normally make.

John Kilduff

Remember, the power outages are what bedeviled recovery efforts after Katrina,

Mikhail Gorbachev

It is a worthy reward for his efforts over many years. He is a man who does his job solidly and responsibly.

Mark Rylance

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Sidney Taurel

Our overall growth for the next several quarters will be generated from newer product sales, line extensions of existing products and recent product launches, ... As a result, we will rely less on Prozac sales growth.

Mark Wasserman

Our priorities right now are land acquisition for parks and renovating existing parks.

Kenneth Lay

I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions.

Steve Johns

It fit perfectly into the existing kitchen space.

Nick Bell

IDMS is a set of interfaces and protocols. Before, GM did not have a single system for its dealers to use. Instead, GM would certify existing systems.

Monica Johnson

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

John B. Hood

For students, especially international students, we are focusing on not only their existing performances, but their potential for future development as well,

Jeffrey Hirsch

I think the hurricane really just exacerbates an existing situation for the market,

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

Lou Mancini

It is an expansion of what are we are doing already. A very nice expansion.

Haim Saban

guide the ongoing strategic expansion of this company, which will have a unique position in Europe.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Jim Boeheim

I don't want a doubling-type thing. I think there should be some teams added. I'm not looking at it like one or two. I'm not looking at 20 either. I think there should be an expansion of the tournament. Whatever seems to fit.

Ian Forrester

The pace of global expansion for the group is increasing.

Milt Stegall

We may need Birmingham, an expansion team from the U.S., to come help. That's how much help we need right now. It's going to be difficult.

Ed Droste

If we're as successful as we think we will be, we might do some expansion down the road.

Paul O'Neill

If we're going to have a tax reduction ... I don't know why we wouldn't want it now, ... It won't hurt. We'll get ready for the next round of expansion in our economy.

David May

If this range expansion continues, we're probably going to have more moose than in pre-Colonial times.

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Dwane Casey

Our second quarter killed us. If we get anything at all in the second quarter, we're in tall cotton.

Eric Benhamou

Our seasonally weak third quarter was exacerbated by several factors.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Edgar Allan Poe

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Robert Friedman

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

Dave Stidham

We have more staff than we need. Our administration has said that. Our teacher-to-student ratio is down to about 13½ to 1.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Ben Bernanke

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Phil Davis

Their achievements in recent years speak for themselves,

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Ted Cruz

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

M.I.A.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Henry Mintzberg

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Philip Yancey

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

Bob Hayes

That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.

Greg Page

It is a collaborative effort. After 15 years of being together, we know what each other's strengths are and who should write what song.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Ayn Rand

Get the hell out of my way!

Woody Hayes

Success - it 's what you do with what you've got.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Reo Hatfield

Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.