Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fadel Gheit

Part of the reason (companies are having trouble adding real reserves) is that there has not been an elephant discovery -- one over a billion barrels -- for 15 years.

Barbara Petersen

Our list is already three pages long, and we're adding on a regular basis.

Alan Miller

Step back and review your practices to make sure all your inputs are adding value and paying their way. In particular, you've got to give the high-cost items some attention. Where you get the most savings on a percentage basis may be in finding even a small reduction on a very expensive item, like fertilizer.

Don Gher

Starbucks is doing a remarkable job of adding new drinks and more stores, and the pace hasn't slowed one bit.

Brendan Morrison

Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points we're losing out on. To win games you've got to score goals, and we just aren't doing that.

Jim Taylor

Our success both on and off the pitch, particularly last season, has put us in an excellent position to grow our business. Adding both Sunderland of England and the L.A. Galaxy of MLS to our schedule speaks volumes about the growth of the Portland Timbers. It's shaping up to be a most exciting season.

E. O. Wilson

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Jane Johnson

Our goal here is to have a dialogue. We're not adding any new rules or making state standards more difficult to attain. We want to create a level playing field and safe food services.

Jim Maloney

Our feeling was that this would make it a better fit for San Francisco. Adding in the component of LGBT service would be obviously quite unique.

Christopher Bond

Parochialism is one of the CIA's biggest problems. These career CIA officers, while having valuable experience, also carry the baggage of being resistant to change. The status quo may be comfortable to them, but it is dangerous to the country.

Alan Parker

Pauline Kael is the Rambo of film critics... a demented bag lady.

Ricardo Zuniga

Our plan was developed to handle in excess of 5,000. We have 25,000 body bags on hand.

Lois Spence

Our strawberry festival is Father's Day weekend. After that, everything in here is practically free. Everything is on bag sale.

Pat Wilson

Our focus was to reduce the number of bags given.

Jeff Mathews

Our first inclination was to pack our bags and depart for our home stations.

Jerry Leiber

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

Bob Brooks

Maybe I'll get a big long plank of wood and use plastic bags to cover it with and use it as a dam in front of my garage door. Hopefully that will work.

Don Dusart

I went to tow one guy and he said to me that a CHP officer told him it would be OK for him to trade an old sleeping bag for the tow. There are some really weird things that go on.

Ahmet Gueye

Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I don't want him to score on me. So he gives me that mentality to play hard every time.

Tony Battie

Some guys like to start it out, and they get out of the blocks well. But from a mental standpoint, if I'm coming off the bench, I like to sit down and see what's going on. I can clear up some things when I get out there or try not to do the exact things that someone else has been messing up on.

Richard Bellzon

Some look at a brick and see something to break a window with, others look at a brick and see the building blocks of a great building. You tell me who was the true visionary.

Steve Spurrier

Our plan will be about like everyone else's - not try to let him run all over the place. Our players know what they have to do. They have to contain. You don't just run straight at a quarterback who looks like him. Hopefully, our guys will get off blocks and sort of corral him.

Erwin Rode

Retail has already had a long run. Offices must still get out of the starting blocks but I am expecting offices to be better performers.

Lanny Smith

I was kind of sold on the idea of being one of the building blocks to try and help get the program back to where it once was.

Fred Jones

Jermaine blocks a lot of shots, but he might have felt he just couldn't get to it. That's his decision.

Dave Tippett

That was a pretty solid game on our part. The last three games, we've put a lot of building blocks in place. We've just got to keep building on it.

Raul Rodriguez

(Martinez) tries to psyche me out because I'm not that good with the (starting) blocks yet. But I'm trying to work harder, trying to get him. I think I will soon.

Frank Yohannan

Our mission statement is to introduce young people to the sport of cycling. We want them to get off of the couch, get away from the computer screen and onto a bicycle.

Damon Galgut

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Ben Edelman

Someone needs to examine popular Web sites to figure out which are untrustworthy. Then users' computers need to automatically notify them before users reach untrustworthy sites.

Jeffrey Zeldman

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

Craig Marks

Otherwise, you're sitting there on your computer saying 'gee, we're down, I guess we can't do anything'.

Margaret Gallardo

Right now our concern is exactly what happened in the classroom, but also more importantly whether it was on a computer with the district or it may have been the substitutes own personal computer.

John Lasseter

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

Ian Pearson

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Michael Dell

Manufacturing jobs today require highly skilled workers who are familiar with computers and technology,

Warde Manuel

Reggie didn't come in with the same credentials. But more than me and more than Turner, Reggie has earned his accolades.

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.

Gordon Miller

Our rescue teams have been working since early this morning.

Doug Bruno

Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to be linear or smooth. It's still early days.

Jim Wygonik

Our passing was crisp, and our movement on offense was fluid early on. That combination produced seven goals in the first quarter.

Greg Oden

Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Jody Conradt

Our schedule is not going to get any easier. It's a tough road from here on out.

David Sanborn

I didn't go on the road until right after my second album.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Dean Saito

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Jim Bolla

Fresno is No. 1 in our conference. Let's go up there and see if we can play well and keep our road streak going.

Kirk Maltby

Just play a good, smart road game, and we've been doing that this season.

Irish Proverb

It is a long road that has no turning.

Greg Schulz

Here we go again. We've been down this road before, many times.

Bill Womack

Historically we haven't done well on that road trip. It will be a tough road trip for us and we just need to play our game.

John Barrett

That's usually the consumer's way of saying they're not interested.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Earl Hamner

I can't get used to saying the words, 'my biographer,'

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

ASAP Ferg

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Berkeley Breathed

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

Candice Wiggins

I think my first realization of that was at Texas Tech.

Dante Hall

I am in and out of Texas all the time.

Christopher Cagan

I feel Texas is going to come out of this pretty well.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Bonnie Henrickson

Hopefully, we can get more out there for the Texas game.

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Bill Hicks

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

Chris Cornell

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dave Odom

I know (Kinsey) would have been here. It's one of those things: He wasn't here on time, so he doesn't start. That throws Renaldo back in there.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

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.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Travis Parker

Wherever he's at, we just got to find him.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Zachary Quinto

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.