Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fadel Gheit

Refining margins across the board obviously cooled off from their all-time high in the third quarter, and obviously that was very clear and expected.

Laura McCarthy

President Bush probably breathed a sigh of relief when he landed in Idaho last night. But no matter where he goes, he's going to find a Cindy Sheehan in every community across the United States. The name is going to be different, but the message is going to be the same.

Thomas Cahill

Previous research has shown that every spring there are massive dust storms in Asia that transport soil eastward to Japan and across the Pacific to the United States. Now we've found that sulfate and organic aerosols are also present, and in roughly the same amounts.

Idris Jala

Our poor pricing, rising cost structure, mismatched fleet, weak operational performance, low-intensity performance culture, and social obligations all contributed to our dismal financial performance across most routes we fly.

Perry Farrell

Our plight, ... is a true indication of the general health of the touring industry and it is across musical genres.

Patrick Vogt

Our partnership with ONE is evolving, and we are pleased that our Internet marketing technology can help ONE to easily reach millions of people across the Web who want to get involved in this campaign. It is important for companies to do this kind of work, where you can both benefit your business and at the same time give back to the community.

Robert Byrd

Our recommendations to the president have been followed, in that he is reaching out across the aisle and getting most of the views of the senators on both sides of the aisle.

David Boyd

Our recent e-commerce studies clearly show an upward trend in global online shopping. While there is growth in nearly all global markets, the lesser developed markets are maturing faster than many of their more developed counterparts. It will not be long before we have a nearly level playing field across the globe.

Greg Schulz

Organizations are becoming buried under the amount of information accumulating at a rapid rate across the enterprise. Not only is much of this information redundant and presents an unnecessary burden on storage and resources, but it also exposes these organizations to regulatory and legal scrutiny.

Gail Lavielle

Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a broader range of people coming into stores.

David Williams

Our markets are home video and dvd, cable and satellite television, and broadcast television. Select theatrical dates are a distinct possibility,

Joaquin Almunia

Our main priority is to confirm the Lisbon strategy (a program for broad economic reform in Europe) should be implemented.

Micah Johnson

Our opinion is that it's a good broadcast and that it honors the troops, ... We have a lot of people in South Carolina and North Carolina that have sons and daughters that are fighting over there. It's a good program and they deserve to see it.

Micah Johnson

Our opinion is that it's a good broadcast and that it honors the troops.

Robert Patterson

Our niche is we're going to tell a broad story.

Bob Doll

Our new Internet-specific fund is designed to complement the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Fund, which gives investors broader exposure to the technology sector.

Charlotte Bergeron

Our laws are very broad about what is a public record. They can be in any format.

Raghu Rau

Our MOTOwi4 branding encompasses a comprehensive platform of wireless broadband solutions and services that enable our customer, the service provider, to use multiple technologies to reach more of their customers. It's a complete tool kit; they just pick the tool that works the best.

Byron Callan

Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.

Patrick Phillips

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

Kelly McBride

Relationships between men and women will change, and so will the workplace. Maybe it will create a truly equitable society or maybe it will flip it and women will become so politically, socially and economically powerful, we'll get whiplash.

George Clarke

Our passing game has really improved this season, ... Tonight, we were passing around the other team, which created a lot of opportunities.

Michael Kelly

Our real goal is to create hydrogen transportation corridors.

Christina Baker Kline

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Rossi Ralenkotter

Part of what we do as destination markets is to fuel the local economy and create jobs in the community.

Ann Veneman

Part of what this report does is to highlight the issue to the public to create an outrage about what is going on.

Alexander Milinkevich

Our objective is to create a stir in society.

Fred Upton

Prices are averaging $3.19. It's as high as $3.58 from $2.61 on Tuesday, ... My sense is the supply and demand equation does not fit a 60-cent (a gallon) increase in the last 36 hours.

Robert Greenwald

O'Reilly has simply lost his mind, ... I demand that O'Reilly apologize.

Ashok Kumar

Our lowered expectations imputes a meaningful pickup in demand over the next three weeks.

David Steiner

Supply is not meeting the demand of the industry. We have to wait for material. As we wait, our lead time goes out.

Jim McCann

Supply can never keep pace with demand at this particular weekend,

David Parks

Supply and demand is what drove up the prices. Demand was growing, and supply was staying relatively flat.

John Carson

Suppliers here in Tucson can not keep up with the demand they are only able to produce so much. They can't keep up with the demand.

Simon Derrick

Sterling has been remarkably robust in an environment where it could easily have lost ground, that encourages me that there has been some real underlying support and demand for the currency.

Bob Costello

Our peak demand seasons, when we see the highest diesel prices, are fall and winter. It makes me very nervous to see the prices we are seeing at this time of year, and I'm telling everyone I see no relief in sight.

Brad Anderson

Land is so speculative right now. The price points facing developers (in the West Valley) are higher than in other markets that have proven themselves.

Terry Clark

It has been extremely difficult working with the developers in that area; the idea is to simplify the process.

Peter Kelly

LINQ is an example of breakthrough simplicity that required major effort by Microsoft, ... What developers are doing now and what they propose to do with LINQ is a radical change.

Rob Cheng

I think one of the major reasons that developers are so interested in our tooling and why it provides such a value is because they don't want to spend all their time writing new things and learning new things when they don't have to.

Andrew To

I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discouraged from placing shares at this time.

Towny Anderson

I think this gives more flexibility to developers and actually produces the units where the need is identified.

Castor Pang

Gains on Wall Street and Tokyo provided support to the local market. Properties led (the gains) as many developers will launch new projects for sale.

Jon Evans

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

Rep. Detert

I think the developers have found a flaw in the law and crawled through the crack. The flaw is the unsolicited offer.

Ulysses Yannas

Some of us were looking for $175 million in digital earnings.

Nicki Zongrone

Retail is actually the fastest growing segment of digital printing right now.

Laura Martin

Piracy has stabilized and strong online digital sales should reinvigorate earnings growth.

Susan Adams

Manchester is a microcosm for what we do in the whole division. It's the place we often go to first for launching new products like digital phone or a high-speed upgrade. It's a well-run system where people are collaborative and go the extra mile.

Hector Ruiz

We need real solutions, not examples of technology for technology's sake, not digital pies in the sky, ... tech utopia.

Jack Kilby

I think they now have a very good position. Their digital signal processing is right in the mainstream of the future development.

John Hogan

I think this allows us to play in the digital world. It is an important entree for us. The radio industry has collaborated and cooperated to work together to make this roll out as meaningful for consumers.

Matthew Stern

Guests can actually order a show or movie, press pause, leave their room and come back and pick up where they left off. Digital is so flexible, it is amazing.

George Packer

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

Peter Massas

People have reacted very positively, and the recognition is good for Keyport. It's opened up a lot of doors for me.

Jim Waters

Some local governments and local government entities feel like the flood doors are open for them to take people's property for economic development projects, and we don't think that's right.

Robert Brown

Our financial resources have run out and so the doors will soon be closing.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I took three steps back; he nudged the door closed with his foot. “You like Mexican?” he asked. “I—” I’d like to know what you’re doing inside my house! “Tacos?” “Tacos?” I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. “Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese.” “I know what a taco is!

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re crowding me. I need— room.”... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn’t be trusted in Patch’s presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet … I wasn’t.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business.

Bill Crawford

We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door.

Bill Engvall

When the bus driver gets off the bus, who shuts the door?

Bill Cosby

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

Mohandas Gandhi

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

Andrew Wilson

I think it's tough for the young guys to really understand what the NIT is all about because nobody really grows up watching the NIT. Unless you've been there and played in it, it's hard to have a feel for how intense it is.

Dan Shechtman

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

William Cox

From what I've seen, it works pretty well. It maintains hair and probably grows some hair back.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a really smart player who kind of grows on you. He's always in the right place at the right time and he's solid everywhere.

William Shakespeare

Murder's out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh

William Butler Yeats

Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?

Chris Johnson

She really grows on people after they get to know her personality.

Nick Hanauer

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Leila Janah

I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.

Terry Teachout

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Matthew Kumin

The manufacturers are looking for more innovative ways to market. They're increasingly looking for word of mouth opportunities and other nontraditional means.

Jack Bicknell

They have an innovative offensive scheme that is tough to defend, ... Defensively, they have some tough blitzes for us to pick up.

Renzo Rosso

E-mail represents one of the most innovative technologies of recent years.

Kanye West

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

Sen. Hill

If you had not signed it, the public would know Innovative finances. The PSC, to some extent, is responsible for Innovative not providing quality service that Virgin Islands residents deserve.

Maureen Murphy

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Wally Schirra

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's quite normal. It's not a macho thing -- it's something that can happen.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Kimberley Nixon

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Shannon Edge

She always opens it up to questions, comments, suggestions.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

Mike Mason

We welcome that. Then it opens things up for our other talented receivers.

Frank Abagnale

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Steve Cohn

Until he opens up, there's nothing we can do.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

David Atkinson

I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

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.

Mike Ledsome

I'm so thrilled for him. It's so great.

Graeme Murphy

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Jim Crace

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.