Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Lingle

Regardless of the legal basis of the decision this is not a just decision,

David Obey

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.

Tim Purpura

Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations, ... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.

Leigh Ross

Our offense knows it has struggled lately, but we're still of the opinion that seeing good pitching on a consistent basis by playing such a tough non-conference schedule will continue to make us better for our MAC run.

Jamie Jackson

People make too much out of whether we're inverted or not. It's as if when we're positive by a couple of basis points, everything is OK, but if we're negative by a basis point, somehow the laws of nature have been violated. The reality of it is the curve is just flat.

William Frey

People make moves largely on the basis of they've got jobs somewhere, housing costs. But lifestyle, people generally don't take that into account. If you have an opportunity, stay there for a couple of weeks. Sit down and talk to people who have just made that move. Find out what issues they have.

Ned Riley

Some of the governors are going to challenge another 50 basis point (half a percentage point) reduction that many people would like. I think they'll be guarded in their commentary and that may be one of the catalysts for the market to correct.

David Velasquez

Our program is about improvement on a weekly basis and today we had a dozen kids (in the girls meet) that really improved.

Neal Hunter

Our product provides comfort, convenience, safety, and savings, while contributing to the reduction in global energy consumption. We believe we must deploy our technology on a rapid global basis to help relieve the pressures on our energy infrastructure.

George Graham

Some of those categories are hard to fill,

Joe Jimenez

Our goal is to drive growth and innovation in Europe by investing in the three core categories of Ketchup, condiments and sauces; infant nutrition; and meals and snacks.

Dick Durbin

M&M categories -- the multimillionaires and the mere mortals.

Patty Smith

It is just another of our selections for customers in all categories ... whatever you want to buy, you would be able to find it on Amazon.

Kenneth Fisher

If some stock categories get too hot-and-pricey, mass supply is created via stock offerings to tap that cheap money - and, when overdone, drives it all down.

Tom Taylor

We've taken a look at some of our categories and said we need to get them rolled out quicker in certain parts of the country.

Charlotte Whitton

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are mens wives.

Placido Domingo

There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.

Paul Williams

Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.

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.

Marshall Strickland

I think the key at this point of the season is to keep improving. Keep expanding your game.

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Patricia Sun

I always say that it's much more powerful to be good than to be right. Why? Because good guides us in moving towards that which is good. Being right makes a deadlock, an enemy, and it sucks us down from expanding our perception. It also frightens the other person and makes the position more stubborn.

Ned Yost

He had very good stuff. He had an outstanding (split-finger fastball). He's working one expanding (his strike zone) a little bit.

Atul Chand

There is a huge big thing happening so we are obviously looking at expanding our retail presence.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Greek proverb

Many a pupil has gained more wealth than his master

Mike Wilton

I think they looked through the net and gained a lot of confidence.

Don Noorda

Jenn has gained a lot of strength. She worked really hard. She's healthy and ready to come back.

O. J. Simpson

I was very proud of how Matt competed. He is running much better, and he gained a lot of yards after contact.

Janet Jackson

I think people really connect with the idea of someone who's gained and lost weight in this very public way, and also someone who's an emotional eater.

Adam Graves

I think guys gained strength from his will.

Kim Il-sung

I don't know what can be gained from it.

Simon Ammann

When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.

Richard Lies

I was jumping into a track that has really gained a good reputation. It was particularly exciting, too, because I knew I had very big shoes to fill.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Rocco Baldelli

That's unbelievable in itself. I don't see how that could ever happen. It's hard enough trying to play one season and play every game. Only a handful of people do that every year. Rarely do they do it over and over again.

Marty Schottenheimer

That's what it's about. You're going to have a handful of opportunities to make plays and the team that makes them is going to prevail.

Dan Fink

From a scientific standpoint, we are incredibly unique. There's only a handful of places, globally, that can do research like we do.

Jimmy Smith

I always hear it. I just liked the way it set up. They said Jimmy is losing a step that he can't do it anymore. It's been the story of my career. It's always been people saying I couldn't do it. I knew I could do it. You knew I could do it. There's always a handful of people.

Kyle Wilson

He is amazing. He'll be a handful to slow down.

Dorn Whitmore

Only a handful said they didn't like what we were doing.

Cheryl Healton

Only a handful of states have used this money for its intended purpose.

Loren Thompson

Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.

Lynn Coady

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Art Hogan

I think the theme is going to be that you have to pick the winners, and I think the winners are going to be the large-cap household names, like IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel. I think they'll lead us for a little while.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Darrell Issa

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Imelda Staunton

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Will Plyler

That was a game-changing play. It put the momentum in our favor.

Al Wilson

That was big, really big. That's what you got to do, man. Big-time players step up and make big-time plays. It was a momentum shifter . . . once that happened, that train was rolling.

Phil Nelson

That was our only chance. It put us in overtime and we had the momentum going in.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Darrent Williams

It don't matter. It was a momentum changer for the team.

Fernando Pisani

Just one of those things. We'll just try and ride that momentum.

Zhang Qiyue

China-U.S. relations, though having encountered difficulties recently, now have momentum for improvement.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Rick Bowers

Overall it was good. We had some disappointments and some surprises; it's all part of the game.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Paul Nolte

Overall it doesn't look too bad. The prices paid is a concern. We'd like to see it come down a little. It's an inflationary key.

Keith Hembre

Overall there are not a lot of surprises here.

Paul Ballew

Overall share is going to be tough for us this year.

Cassie Desmone

Overall our season was fine, but not one of our better ones. We've got some work to do in the future.

Cristobal Huet

Overall I made a lot of progress this year. I worked on the little details, the small things that make you better.

Michael Woods

Overall for the first game, we played well,

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.