Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Bull

Some of the muscle tone will decrease and flexibility will also decrease. It's true what they say: if you don't use it, you lose it.

Denis Medeiros

Reduce portion sizes. Decrease foods laden with sugar, white flour and fat.

David Lowe

We now have the specter that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions rather than decrease it by sequestering CO2. This paper will undoubtedly unleash controversy, not the least of which will be political.

Greg Olsen

I think there might be a short-term decrease because of the negative publicity, but a year or two down the line you're probably going to see an increase in value.

Shari Brannock

That's the lowest in recent years, a decrease in the increase.

Steve Hubbard

It gets rid of legibility problems, and that means a decrease in errors.

Matt Alexy

Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.

Jeremy Duxbury

From last year there is a slight decrease because we have increased the size of the squad from 25-30. But we are working on the same budget. We have given each team an expense account. This to be used for expenses at training.

Adnan Dulaimi

Kidnapping this noble journalist will decrease the force of the efforts - no, it will interrupt them.

Tom Richards

We'll be able to provide (small- and medium-size businesses) with powerful, yet easy-to-use telephony and desktop capabilities,

Linus Torvalds

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time,

Kevin Rollins

Much of the industry's quarterly growth was at the low ends of the desktop and notebook categories, which offer little if any profitability. Dell met its operating targets by pursuing profitable growth.

Patrick Mahoney

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

Nat Friedman

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.

E. Helm

Microsoft is going to feel the pain: over 80 percent of desktop Windows are through sales of new PCs.

Miguel de Icaza

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

Dean McCarron

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

Nat Friedman

Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Alan Ackerman

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Peter Cardillo

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

Jon Brorson

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

John Hall

Some Linux people won't like that I'm saying this, but you won't find Linux running on a lot of larger enterprise networks, simply because of its limited processor scalability,

Leonard Susskind

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Kevin Rollins

We now have excellent balance, and the focus is on our enterprise products.

Scott Larsen

IT is our business. We have to plan more like a large enterprise would, with large generators, redundancy, multiple service providers and a much higher level of network capability.

Michael Capellas

If one thing stands out in the fourth-quarter results, it's the strength of our enterprise technology and solutions. This is where we see our most important growth in 2001 and beyond.

Chris Nicol

The price offered at an enterprise value of around $360 million is extremely high for a beer, or any, asset.

Rusty DePass

Let private enterprise do as much of it as possible and keep as much property on the tax rolls as possible.

George Allen

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Herman Edwards

Our passing game, we'll see. I think it will improve as we play, but I think you've got to establish the run in this league.

Enrique Garcia

Somehow a struggle ensued. We don't know if it is gang-related. We're still trying to establish what the two victims were doing there and why this whole thing occurred.

Stefan Pryor

Our goal is to establish as many new connections to lower Manhattan as possible.

Paul Rodio

That's the way we do it. We want to run the football and establish that. Everything else feeds off of that.

Charles Mathias

I think that's why we're having these hearings to establish the record that there is a need (to renew these provisions), ... I think the record will speak for itself.

Sam Phillips

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Brad Eldred

I thought it went OK. I got my feet wet and was able to kind of establish myself a little bit. I did some things well and found out I still have some things to work on.

Joe Gibbs

I am looking for somebody to really establish themselves as the quarterback, to take over and take off with the team,

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Kughalo Mulatonu

Our main headquarters and all our top leaders are safe.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Sylvia Bennett

Our leaders left us to die, strangers took us in,

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Yukio Hatoyama

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

Jonathan Epstein

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Elliott Smith

Static in my head,the reflected sound of everything,tried to go to where it led,but it didn't lead to anything.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Javier Sambrano

Our presence has really been more about monitoring the students for safety than anything else.

Karen Scott

I'm here for him. My presence for him is all that matters.

Courtney Sims

I was just trying to be aggressive, and I just wanted to be a presence out there.

Paul Steidler

Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds,

Courtney Sims

I was trying to be more of a presence on defense. I wanted to be more active.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Dick DeGuerin

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Mark Rosenker

We're trying to do this as quickly as possible, as safely as possible.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

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.

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 Condon

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

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Bill Hamilton

Our viewpoint is that this (opinion) is a total side-step of the will of the people.

Kevin Buckler

R.J. is better this year than ever. He's the total package.

Kevin Krewell

The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.

Mark Chapman

I was under total compulsion, ... Dateline NBC.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Alan Dundes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Alfred Rosenberg

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).

Mohammad Saeedi

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?