Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Braisted

Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

John Loose

Recognizing the many uncertainties about the broader economy, we are carefully walking the line between realism and optimism, ... Although it appears that our revenue stream will improve as the year plays out, the pace and timing of recovery is uncertain.

Tania Graves

Really what it is is focusing on businesses that are core to our strategic plan. These lines of businesses, although profitable ... would thrive better with a company that is more focused in those areas.

Preston Sturges

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

Charlie Glavin

Our October downgrade was based on concerns that are manifesting themselves now, although current conditions are actually worse than we feared,

D. James

Our objective is to make it easy for our customers and members to understand their benefit and get their prescriptions filled. Although some new enrollees may not have received their plan enrollment cards, we want to reassure them that Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB pharmacists are ready to help them right away by using the information on their plan enrollment forms.

Richard Hatch

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Henry Blodget

Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly more free to compete on its own terms than we expected it would.

Bob Morton

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

Joe Wilcox

Real was the only protagonist left in the EU case, so the settlement should help with Microsoft's appeal, since the problem involved appears to have been fixed,

Rajesh Jain

Reliance stock was volatile but sentiment appears to be positive. We see strength in Reliance's core businesses of oil exploration, refinery and petrochemicals.

Rajesh Jain

Reliance stock was volatile but sentiment appears to be positive going forward.

Anthony Santomero

Our policy appears to be close to neutral now.

Peter Brown

Particles that are micron sized interact with sunlight more efficiently, so it appears that would cause an impact on climate from these particles left in the upper atmosphere.

John Lawson

Pat Harrison appears to be trying to ratchet down some of the ideological orientation of the organization.

Heather Fiorentino

Pasco students are definitely participating (in the boycott). It appears that may be a major reason.

Bob Goldman

Our lower-than-expected revenue for (the fourth quarter) appears to be influenced by the current weakness in the worldwide economy, which has resulted in reduced capital spending by telecommunications and dot-com companies.

Steven Camarota

States have a choice: They can either buttress federal law or undermine it. It appears Virginia is trying to buttress it. And I think that reflects popular sentiment in Virginia.

Gail Lavielle

Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a broader range of people coming into stores.

Bob Doll

Our new Internet-specific fund is designed to complement the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Fund, which gives investors broader exposure to the technology sector.

Jim Ryan

OPTIMAL PLACE. We're judging its success and determining whether it will be included in our broader music offerings.

Noel Maye

People often confuse financial planning with investing, but financial planning is much broader than that.

Samuel Sommers

Such diverse juries deliberated longer, raised more facts about the case, and conducted broader and more wide-ranging deliberations. They also made fewer factual errors in discussing evidence and when errors did occur, those errors were more likely to be corrected during the discussion.

Lynn Fox

Star Wars' is broader than a single movie. Parents know that 'Star Wars' has been a positive influence.

Paul Bard

spurred by the broader setback in the technology sector.

Doug Porter

Some of the weakness in the broader market was probably due to the fact that New York suffered a fairly large sell-off.

S. Hughes

Our team executed very well in overcoming many of the challenges we faced entering the third quarter. With outstanding progress on patent license renewals and broader customer engagements, we have solid momentum for revenue growth as we finish out the year.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

John Reynolds

Some of these security fixes are simply impractical, while others could harm trade. We need to think carefully about what we do as all this moves forward.

Enrique Manzanilla

Restricted use pesticides must be handled carefully in order to protect the users and the environment. Companies selling these chemicals must make sure that they do not fall into inexperienced hands.

Arthur Caplan

Research in the past has wound up abusing, harming or hurting people. You want to stick to these regulations as carefully as possible, because they really make sure the welfare and interests of human subjects are protected.

Sunita Narain

We need a more nuanced and carefully devised strategy.

Marshall Curry

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

Elon Musk

Launch is scrubbed until early next year,as there is a structural issue with the 1st stage fuel tank that will require repair. I will provide further comment as soon as this has been carefully analyzed.

Ralph Fiennes

Justin isn't going to respond angrily ... he's going to carefully say, 'What was she doing?

Jayne Anne Phillips

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Steve Burd

Our strategy to differentiate our offering has resulted in broad-based sales improvement.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Stephen Straus

We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment,

Sherri Coale

I think the way she's playing right now is a testament to how much she'll improve the more she plays.

Greg Lee

I think there's a lot more room for improvement. I don't think you're ever going to be as perfect as you want to be, but we're striving to be that perfect team.

Kevin Garnett

I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Tiffany Townsend

PATH line rail schedules have nothing to do with toll-crossing charges.

Ali Moshiri

Our objective is in line with what their objective is.

Jim Darling

Our offensive line wore them down and we just ran over them.

Chan Gailey

Our offensive line is pretty young. We did not feel like it was imperative. We'll make a push for some next year, maybe one or two. I don't feel any pressure right now and I think we'll have to look and see what we have numbers-wise to work with next year.

I. Stone

Our offensive line is not near where we need it to be. Our wide receivers are better than where we've been in the past, though.

Oprah Winfrey

Stanford, Yale and NYU line up to get a seat in her class.

John Swainson

Our results for the quarter were not in line with our expectations.

Martin Brodeur

We'll be able to make a long pass because the red line is out,

Pete Carroll

For the second week in a row we just were on a torrid pace to self-destruct in the first quarter.

Derian Hatcher

The pace we're on, sure, anything could happen.

Daniel Petrocelli

The pace is picking up. I think the story's being told.

Pat McCormick

The pace is going to pick up from now until we're ready to launch.

Phyllis Nagy

The pace is especially important in this, when it isn't so much a whodunit. We had to find a way to structurally keep shifting the focus, where you think you know something but you see that you don't.

J. C. Watts

He had an 80-yard run called back. He was probably on pace to run for 400 yards in that game.

Chuck D.

We're on a record-setting pace for second-quarter warnings.

Brett Lee

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Other women see all the women I play as separate people. Men say, She always plays tough, willful types; strong women who are also vulnerable.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Kip Rhoten

That's what he can do when he wants to. When he plays like he did tonight, we're tough.

Joe Gibbs

I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,

Nicklas Lidstrom

I think we can make it tougher on him out there, make him skate a little more. He's going to make plays out there. We can get on him quicker, not give him that time with the puck.

Rod Smith

I tell all the young guys, when it's all done, it's about performance. When you get the chance, you have to make some plays . . . that's just the way it is.

Michael Jackson

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Zane Grey

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

C. S. Lewis

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Aimee Mann

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out.

Bryant H. McGill

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Bryant H. McGill

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Brion James

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Baha'u'llah

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Juanita Longwell

I can't have the mountain, but at least I've got the stream here.

Jonathan Cain

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Charles Braun

It's unique in that it is around a stream and trees.

Christian Cooke

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

Shonda Rhimes

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.

Stan Javier

Our timing is not there yet, but we are all in the same boat. We are here. That's where we wanted to be.

Joan Baker

I tell them you can have it all but not at the one time. You have got to get the timing right.

Seth Erwin

Basically, we didn't have the same 15 set for every week. We had different starters, and we just couldn't get our timing down.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

Bill Hybels

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

Carol Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Eric Thomas

Now that PNTR (for China) is out of the way, the timing is right.

James Sensenbrenner

should be commended for the timing and thoroughness of these answers.

Armando Navarro

Timing is everything in politics, and the timing is with us right now.

Jerry Stone

That was kind of like walking in a dream.

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,

Dick Wolf

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Debra Messing

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

Larry Starkey

We don't know why she was walking or where she was going.

Souza

We don't know who's walking around out there with Barrett's that we need to watch,

Ronnie Elmore

I thought they did the right thing walking Tripp. I would have done the same thing in their position.

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

Andy Rooney

My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

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!