Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manuel Pangilinan

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Don Mischer

People look at what we do and call us stress junkies. You just say to yourself, 'If I'm going to fall on my butt, what better place to do it than in front of a billion people?

Peter Ashkenaz

States are eventually going to save billions of dollars under the new program. And that's why very few states decided to join this lawsuit, despite requests for them to do so.

Bill Bradley

Our program would cost between $50 and $65 billion to make sure 95 percent of all Americans have health insurance. We can get this right,

Joel Staff

Our priorities for 2006 will include completing the transition to a fully competitive retail market in Texas, converting to an open model in our wholesale business, improving the commercial capacity factor of our generating plants and managing our collateral exposure to reduce postings by $1 billion by year-end.

Ken Bacon

Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.

Werner Braun

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

Jim Redding

Our country currently uses 150 billion gallons of gasoline per year. By contrast, we consume four billion gallons of ethanol. A huge potential for growth exists within this industry.

Joel Fuhrman

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Adnan Pachachi

People have to be convinced that these two men are in fact killed and are no longer a threat to the peace of the country,

Dick Catri

Somehow, when she was 13, I convinced her parents to let us take her on the road trips. All the rest of them were guys, but she was treated like she had five or six older brothers. She was very good.

Mary Johnson

Some people can never be convinced of the truth.

Christian Wulff

We need a big debate on whether it is responsible to end nuclear power - I am convinced it is not.

Lothar Matthaeus

(I will only return to Germany) once the decision-makers are convinced that I am the right man with my abilities. If not I will stay abroad.

Natan Sharansky

Just as the sceptics were wrong then, I am convinced they are wrong now about the possibility of freedom spreading to the Middle East.

Filippo Luca

Latin American economies have made a leap to quality. We are totally convinced that this time the economic growth will be much more sustainable than it has been in the past.

Mike Bird

I watched it for two hours. My wife looked at it, my parents looked at it. Before long, I was firmly convinced that we were dealing with something real.

Charles Kennedy

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

Hans Trousil

Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.

Glenn Kaplan

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Stephen Meyer

Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.

Tim Mooney

Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.

Malik Rahim

Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.

Paul Kim

Overall pricing increases in broadcasting will be in the mid-to-high single digits, but total dollars are going to be flat,

John Williamson

Ottawa has had a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and surplus dollars should be returned to taxpayers.

David Stern

Maybe if you earn less than eight million dollars you'll get a scholarship from the commissioner,

Neil Anderson

Managers were paid huge sums of money - running into millions of dollars - and have failed to prudently manage the company, putting jobs at risk.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Michael Nutter

Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

John Olver

Our offense is more of an offense by committee, and no one player stands out with eight players within a point of each other.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

John Robertson

Our low steel is at 58 eight feet high,

Lynn Hobbs

Susan was wonderful and we really miss her a lot. We feel glad she was with us for seven or eight years. But people want to move on and up.

Marc Saltzman

Success here at E3 is essential to start the momentum for a game's sales. It tells retailers what to stock their shelves with for the next six to eight months, especially for the holiday season. And with revenues that now rival Hollywood, it's really do or die.

Marc Saltzman

Success here at E3 is essential to start the momentum for a game's sales, ... It tells retailers what to stock their shelves with for the next six to eight months, especially for the holiday season. And with revenues that now rival Hollywood, it's really do or die.

Martin Rees

Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

David Aiello

Refrain from entering a profession where you are selling your time; as you will never receive fair value in return.

Jeff Johnson

Sure, we'd like to make them all, or at least make more than we are. Nevertheless, we made some big ones when we needed to. We did a good job defensively and we were able to maintain a lead. When we still had a lead entering the second half, that gave us some confidence.

J. Lewis

Last year, I think we were too confident. We were 23-1 entering the tournament and we just thought we were unbeatable. We know every team is equal, and we have to come out and play each team as if they are the toughest in the state.

Chuck Priefer

I think he's just entering his prime. The next three, four, five years, he ought to be as good as there is in the league.

Thomas Perls

If we're entering a time when people can improve their health, then it's important to be improving your wealth as well. If you're going to live into your 90s in good health, then you're going to need money.

Matt Kolojejchick

We've been waiting for this all year. It was one of our goals entering the season, to perform well at districts. Now we have one more day and then we look forward to states.

Chris Como

We're only entering 12 kids this year. But all 12 have a legitimate shot of qualifying.

Ethan Harris

Now you are entering a much more uncertain period.

Shannon Burns

Obviously, it's not an ideal situation. But I can tell you that this (decision) in no way prevents us from entering the direct-selling business, which we plan to do by the holiday season in 2006.

Will Estes

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

Deborah Levine

There has been a level of complacency that has helped the epidemic spread.

Connie Baker

We can't let it go because it's escalated. It's like an epidemic right now.

Chuck Klosterman

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Christopher McDougall

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

Jared Diamond

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Greg Poland

What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic.

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Dennis Kucinich

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Saddam Hussein

Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq ,

Tom Amstutz

Our players were aware, sure, but they didn't focus on any of that. We prepared well and we executed well. I was proud of the way our team went about its business.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Chris Hutchens

Our main focus will be to have a quick start and not wait until the second half to make plays.

Mike Pirtle

Our main focus was to play the we've been playing.

Andre Morgan

Our main focus was to come out (in the first half) and execute. I guess we did execute, because (Jacksonville) is a very competitive team.

Amanda Hansen

Our main focus is to get past that first round.

Andre Patterson

Our main focus has been getting better every time we get on the floor. We don't look at where we're playing or who we're playing. We just look at it as five-on-five and that we're going to work harder.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Silvio Berlusconi

It is an historic meeting of global significance.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Nauman Barakat

It is not 9/11 in its devastation or its impact on global demand. Therefore this sell-off will be very temporary.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Quincy Jones

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Elliot Krieger

Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good,

M. C. Escher

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Barry Lopez

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

B. F. Skinner

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

Bill Crawford

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Big Pun

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

Sue Stevens

The alternative is you don't retire or you phase into retirement.

Mamie Gummer

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really.

Mo Cheeks

I thought everyone had to pick up every phase of our game.

Larry Neumann

He's a difference-maker in every phase of the game.

Cheri Blauwet

Here, we see it as another phase of life.

Dennis Latta

We're in the exploratory phase right now, but we've been working on this for a long time and think it's a possibility.

David Barry

Since then, we've always been in one phase or another,

Edith Rogers

Women legislators must take their part in every phase of legislative work. And it is real work - much of it is drudgery.

Thabo Mbeki

Our political relations can only go from strength to strength,

Ghazi Hamad

We need more talks to settle differences in the political agenda.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

Manouchehr Mottaki

It is a political declaration and it is unjust.

Chris Tarry

I think there is will, political and governmental, for a deal. And its about time.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Marina and the Diamonds

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Dan Anderson

It got a terrific response here at Wesley,

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Jim Angell

I think their response has been very measured.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Jamshyd Godrej

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Javier Solana

For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Andre Williams

I think everybody's starting to realize, we've got to make it work. We've got to get through it.

Simon Gagne

I'm starting to feel better. ... I have to say, I think the three of us are starting to feel a little more energy.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Anant Agarwal

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Austin O'Malley

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

Gregory Bateson

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Jewel

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

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!