Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Daniels

We have no active trade discussions going. Danny didn't play last year; we need to see what kind of shape he is in. There's nothing wrong with competition.

Brad Kullman

We have no active talks going on involving Austin Kearns, and we have no plans to trade him.

Rob Butcher

We have no active talks between the Reds and the Indians involving Austin Kearns. Our baseball people met for the last few days and decided that unless we are overwhelmed with an offer, we want to see Kearns play here.

Peter Dawson

We have nine venues that are active for us and the way it seems to work is that the Open comes to St Andrews about every five years and to each of the others about every 10.

Kekoa Paulsen

We have some active reservoirs, so we keep a close eye.

Matt Kiefer

Whenever you have the type of shooters (Ohio State has) and the inside play in (Terence) Dials, its tough to defend them. They do a lot of good things as far as being active and getting their hands on loose balls on rebounds and things of that sort.

Terry Christensen

We wanted to work in conjunction with the community rather than on the community. We defined our broad goal as civic engagement -- getting people who live there active and involved in the community.

Trevor Rabin

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

John Richard

We were a rag-tag bunch. The 7th Battalion was short on men and had called in all the reserves they could. I hadn't been on active duty since the end of WWII. I left Salem by train on a Friday night and the next Friday, I was headed for Korea.

John Brain

We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,

Stephen Holmes

We have moved to begin the process of revoking the probation based on the seriousness of the underlying crime that placed him on probation. It will be up to a judge to decide what sanctions should be imposed.

Rodney Hendrix

What the state gives us is based on what the federal grant amounts are.

Chris Foster

When you run for SORF, you have to pledge that you won't judge a club's virtue based on their application. Our guidelines are all about being objective.

Elmore Lockley

We want people to keep in touch with us if they're having problems. We can put people on the budget plan, or special payment method which is very individualized and based on a customer's individual situation.

James McCormack

We were always skeptical about how fast consumer recovery (would) be. It had been pretty slow. This year, we've revised our growth forecast for the Korean economy to 5 percent based on strong fourth-quarter numbers that we saw, particularly in consumption. The export sector still looks positive." ()

Agin Muhammad

We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn't hurt me. As far as I'm concerned, me personally, it's like it never happened.

Phil Brown

We've signed him on a monthly contract and it will be based on his fitness levels.

Brian Barnhart

We have revised our testing policy from earlier in the off-season based on the commitment from Honda to serve as the league's single-engine supplier. This testing format brings more efficiency to the teams, Honda and the league as we ready ourselves for the 2006 season, the league's first featuring its compacted schedule.

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Tony Russa

We've won the division, and I think he's lost a little mental edge as far as concentration,

Siri Hustvedt

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Al Pacino

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Andy Reid

We utilized him in training camp. We have to make sure that most of his concentration is on the tight end spot. But he is a guy we could use to get us through a game at fullback.

M.I.A.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

Brent Guy

Leon did a fine job of running the football. Toward the end of the game, he didn't do a few things we wanted him to do. He lost his concentration a little bit. But we're pretty pleased with the way he handled the game. He ran well and took some big hits. He's going to do nothing but get better.

Edie Bailey

Life is too short to waste our precious time with stress and frustration. We should concentrate instead on the many things we have to be grateful for.

Chris Turner

Carl let his concentration slip and he's got to learn from that.

Mason Young

Centauri made us run one step faster than we wanted to. Sometimes that takes you off balance, and we didn't have the concentration to finish off many of our shots.

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Kathryn Harrison

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

Milton Ezrati

This provides some conviction that China's economy is still growing very fast.

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Brigitte Bardot

I have the courage of my convictions.

Ayn Rand

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

Winston Churchill

Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Todd Akin

One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of 'Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' 'Macau people governing Macau' and a high degree of autonomy.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of ' Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' ' Macao people governing Macao' and a high degree of autonomy.

Suzanne Collins

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.

Sue Monk Kidd

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Eric Balfour

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Kathleen Rose Perkins

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

James Gallagher

We have no knowledge whatsoever of who Ocean Fund is and what they are talking about. We own them (the Caesars properties), and they didn't submit anything to us.

Daniel Akaka

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

Susan Uhrik

We want people to come, not only to raise funds for this family, but also for them to receive a blessing.

Sergey Galitsky

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Donna Dubinsky

Venture capitalists wouldn't fund us because it wasn't wireless.

David Suzuki

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

David Prowse

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

Jason Calacanis

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Carol Roth

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

Carol Leifer

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Mike Crinieri

We've seen a tremendous pickup (in investor interest) in the last year.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Cherie Blair

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Robert Whiteley

The perimeter is getting more porous. The no-no is to just invest there.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Paul Anka

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Jennifer Lopez

My manager says, 'Are you sure? You should test-drive it and see how it feels.' I know how it will feel. It will feel like I just wasted $80,000.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

John Carlson

Then, and only then, they should put a small part of their portfolio in this.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Johan Reinhard

I'd much prefer that they not be displayed, just because of all of the headaches.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Conor Oberst

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

Alan Alda

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Alexandre Père

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Peter Doust

We would all prefer for this to be resolved sooner rather than later.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Kevin Everly

We use them in different combinations to get each other the ball. They work together and do a lot of screening.

Brian Eno

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Catherine Deneuve

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.