Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Styll

Part of the reason is to build the brand of Music City and to have it have a worldwide reputation that June in Music City is a smorgasbord of stuff.

Dave Dickson

Part of why Kleenex and all the leading brands use virgin fibers is because of the strength and softness of the tissue.

Herbert Hainer

Our mission is to be the leading sports brand in the world. This definitely brings us a huge step ahead,

Edward Fox

People have positive associations with George Foreman. Part of the value of having a good, positive brand image, like George Foreman does, is you can take that brand and you can put it on new products.

Mark Gibson

People have more media choices than ever before, and this is a unique and different way to get our brand out there.

Jack Trout

People like to bring back the old stuff. These are all classic brands so they have a history ... it is sort of reintroducing the brand to a new generation, using the old symbols.

John Masefield

Success is the brand on the brow of a man who has aimed too low.

Joe Eberhardt

Our strategy with Jeep is to expand the brand at the upper end and entry level while staying true to the brand hallmarks of freedom, adventure, mastery, authenticity and capability while maintaining the brand's global appeal.

Philip Bowman

Our focus remains on generating profitable value from our existing portfolio of powerful brands and on strengthening the portfolio and our distribution capabilities through acquisition and joint venture.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Joey Spatafora

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Shelley Smith

Our players have taken more ownership of the team and responsibility for improving their play. They are doing what it takes to get better, working hard physically and improving their mindset of the game. With that they are building confidence and that will help as they try to maximize their potential. Our team knows that we were stronger last year then the results showed and understand the importance of consistent play.

Ron Mosby

Our objective is to ensure the building is occupied -- that it just doesn't sit vacant.

Ruth Luban

People have to know that just because the refugee has landed in a new job, they're not necessarily safe, ... It's about building resilience, holding your boundaries, not giving 80-100 hours a week to the job and not losing your identity to the job.

Robert Whiteley

People often forget about management tools when they're building a new network or looking at the one they have. Most hardware vendors provide management software with their products these days, but there is a whole tier of software that can give visibility into the network as a whole.

Joan Claybrook

Such lavish travel gives lobbyists an inside track with lawmakers ... and could even be interpreted as building the groundwork for legislative favors.

Tony Boyle

Staying away for the weekend is an excellent way of building team spirit.

Bill Hogan

Stan Buchanan (a starter on the 1955 NCAA champion USF team) surprised me when he mentioned a few years ago that the team had always wanted rings but did not receive them, so we started a process of building an event to honor this distinguished group.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Roy Malan

Our finale links the intensity of young composers' creativity with the exuberance and sparkle of young performers.

Michael Redd

Our whole identity is to push the basketball, and that's what he does best. Once he gets in the open court, his creativity takes over, and we're better off by doing that.

Billy Corgan

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Bill Bradley

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Jeff Zucker

I wondered if I would find the next few years as personally fulfilling as the first four I have spent as the president of NBC News. I also found myself missing the opportunity for the kind of creativity I've had in previous jobs.

Irvin Lippman

I did not predict the full range of creativity.

Jim Tressel

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.

Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

Dave Jones

Reckless driving is operating a vehicle in a speed or manner likely to endanger other drivers.

Paul Saleh

Recent strength in monthly revenue, coupled with solid subscriber additions, is driving excellent top-line growth in our business.

Ray Tyson

Our researchers are working out a ranking system now. This is an important category, though, if you do a lot of night driving or if your vision is starting to diminish.

John Dilling

People just aren't paying attention. They're driving too fast and not paying attention.

Nate Robertson

Some of these guys, they're still driving home. They're not even home yet and they're finding out all this news. I've been part of this system for three years, and it's a shock to you. It's tough.

Mercedes Pascual

Our results do not mean that temperature is the only or the main factor driving the increase in malaria, but that it is one of many factors that should be considered.

Mary Barra

Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.

Ron Bersani

I think there are a small number of very powerful members of the House who have never supported increased penalties for drunk driving and they don't support them now.

Alex Turner

Last year at this time, we were driving around playing shows near Sheffield. Now, it feels like we'll at least have a go at it.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Wayne Peters

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

Lumkile Mondi

Such executives are unlikely to be willing to look at new ways of doing business.

Jack Collins

Our president has been in touch with state police and the Executive Office of Public Safety. They will leave sooner than later, I suspect.

Linda Hirshman

I think it's not just the universities. It's the executives in the boardroom.

Harry Shearer

It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Bill Cosby

I was told maybe nine years ago by an executive who was working for a major network that the networks from now on are going to be entertaining 13-year-old people, and that's what you see today.

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Bill Vaughan

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

P. James

The American watercolor scene today is about innovation and energy.

John Kimball

I don't think I've ever seen the sense of innovation and willingness to take risks that I'm seeing now.

Al Franken

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

Aimee Mullins

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

Charles Kettering

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Burton Richter

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Lou Rossi

More than 50% of innovation comes from the voice of the customer.

Diane Paulus

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Mike Rucker

That day was tough. Because it was like the punctuation mark to that season.

Devon Sawa

Live long, play hard... oh wait that's Nike

Cameron Belk

I find it perplexing that Nike didn't come here and say they think the shoes are fake.

Walter Benjamin

If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

Alexander Wang

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

Adrienne Bailon

You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.

Randy Zanatta

Nike said they would just waltz in and be successful. That did not happen.

Chris Chelios

Nike is renting it out for the whole week.

Rodney Knox

Nike has had a long-standing relationship with A-Rod and this just formalizes it,

Andre Agassi

Nike and I reached terms on all my stuff with no problem,

Rajon Rondo

Patrick played great. That was a big key.

Michelle Connors

Some of those teams (we played during the season) are here today. It proved very valuable to their efforts. I'm just super proud of them.

Stan Heath

Our team played very well at Alabama. That was one of our better road games. We could have made better choices. Where do we go from here? We go to Auburn and get a win.

Dan Kumetat

Our whole team played well. Our whole team contributed.

Don Williams

P.J. played well and he played hard. He played well all year for us.

Nell Fortner

I think this team has played very hungry. I'm really proud of their focus.

Brad Ellebracht

We never really played with any urgency throughout the game.

Chuck Amato

I was just totally disappointed with the way we played defensively.

Bud Selig

I think they played a very constructive role.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Dave Martin

I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove. IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Jose Fernandez

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Danielle Brian

No one has proven themselves strong enough to tackle it.

George Smitherman

We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.

Ron Cosner

She has proven she can probably steal on anybody.

Doug Young

To be safe and soon we have to go with proven methods.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Christine Johnson

Our students need to see role models. We feel very strongly about that.

Hans Blix

Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Andrew Cohen

I think it's unfortunate that we don't spend time talking about our role in the world.

William Daley

I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position.

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are going to reactivate the role of the PLO.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Carrie Vaughn

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

Chris Bryant

Just being able to keep track of things at all times and trying different things.

Bill Bradley

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Steve Godsil

That was a mess. I really didn't think I wanted to do this after that night. It was so nerve-wracking trying to keep track of everything.

Joanna Schultz

I think if I got on the track and I wasn't nervous, I'd be scared.

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

Richard D. James

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.