Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Stanley

Recent environmental disasters suggest that China needs to find a better balance between growth and environmental protection. The obsession with GDP has led to a neglect of growth quality issues.

James Douglas

Recent takeovers in the telecoms industry have been marked by an increased confidence and desire to do M&A on part of trade buyers. They repaired their balance sheet and telecoms equity has been fairly strong recently.

Alex Yemenidjian

Our release schedule for the balance of this year holds great promise, and our home video and television distribution operations continue to generate stronger than expected revenue and cash flow.

Leonard Asper

Our outlook for the balance of the fiscal year remains cautious as we expect continued softness in our Canadian conventional television business and stable performance from our remaining operations.

Jim Grobe

Our recruiting focus was to help all the different positions. I like the balance in our class. I think we hit a home run with players this year. This is a very talented group.

Christine Varney

participation would help promote a balance of viewpoints.

Richard White

Our objective will continue to be to finish with a balanced budget,

Linda Malec

Our members may not be able to do a balance sheet, but they understand the fundamentals. They are proud of our credit union and they want the best benefits and services to continue that they've enjoyed for 56 years.

Don Blandin

People have to balance their consumption with their formation of their nest egg. They have to not sacrifice tomorrow for being able to spend all they possibly can today.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Bret Taylor

Our long-term goal is to have our product give directions that are as good as the taxi driver. Certainly it's not there yet.

Stacey Phillips

Our No. 1 goal is to make the Big Ten Tournament. We haven't been to the tournament since 1997, and that's way too long -- it's unacceptable... We have the talent and we certainly have the pitching.

Robert Edwards

Our new Sprinters are still 'bedding in' so it is too early to talk about their efficiency and fuel economy. But we have certainly been satisfied so far with their overall performance and versatility.

Tony George

Optimistic? It's certainly possible, but it's a long way from there. Everyone would like to see it happen sooner than later... but it's not something you can hurry along.

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Sue Cischke

Some of the challenges include designing a system that is most of all accurate, not easily disabled or avoided, is easy to use and does not create driver-distraction issues.

Frank Robinson

Some guys, they get down on themselves and wonder 'Why? But other guys, it challenges them: 'Well, I'm not going to let someone come in and take my job. I'll show them that I'm a better player.' I think that's the way he should react and that's the way he will react, because really the job is there for him to lose.

Harold Lewis

Our stadium is the most used natural turf stadium in the U.S.. Given the challenges, he's done a great job.

Gregg Semanick

Our volunteers are the heart of the program. Many have been helping for years. They enjoy the challenges of tax preparation and they're dedicated to helping in their communities.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Duane Ackerman

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

David Carr

Our team is a lot like Indianapolis in that we need to have our full complement of guys going,

John Malcolm

Our team in the East is strong and our customers have a full complement of exciting product technologies and skilled resources available.

Chip Cherry

Retail, in general, is a very strong market for us. Our retail draw extends from Dodge County to over to the coast. (These retailers) just continue to complement our retail offerings, which is a very good thing.

Sarah Patterson

I think the reason we're successful is that we complement each others' strengths and weaknesses.

Danny Elfman

Like 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' writing songs for 'Corpse Bride' was a real treat. Tim's visuals make the perfect complement for the kind of stuff I love doing most. These wonderfully fun, dark, offbeat tales are the perfect platform for me to write odd, slightly twisted, obscure styles such as my favorite musical era... 1930s jazz. I only hope we get to do more in the future

Jon Oringer

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

Carlos Delgado

I don't know much about how it was before I got here, but I can tell you we have a real good team and that creates a buzz. I feel pretty good about our chances. I'm not good at predicting anything, and after you spend a little time in the game you realize expectations don't mean nothing. I want to go to Spring Training and get in the winning mode. I want to meet some of the guys I've never met and try to see what we can do as a team and what we can't do and find a way we can complement each other.

Ted Donato

He is playing with two very good guys but he's a very good complement for them. He's a very good player in his own right.

Aaron Oldfield

Kate really did a great job. I would say having Julie, Miriam and Katie, they are interchangeable. The three of them complement each other so well. There are a lot of options with those three.

Michael Thomas

Recent events overseas have probably elevated the global economy to the top of the RBA's risk list,

Jason Schultz

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Andrew Rudnick

Our relatively strong economy is showing itself in the real estate market.

James Fiorillo

Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.

Don Brunell

Our members (are) unified around the fact that without workers who are presently here, our economy is in trouble.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks. The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks, ... The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Ron Lehman

Sustained job growth speaks well for Texas employers and the Texas economy.

Martin Rees

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

Ellen Wheeler

Our staged emergency turned into a real life emergency.

Anthony Williams

Our first priority is to be able to respond effectively to the emergency situations as they arise,

Daryl Miller

Rescue here is not guaranteed. Our motto has been: your emergency may not be our emergency.

David Paulison

Please, please don't go back until the local emergency managers tell you it's safe to go back.

Ken Dulaney

We'll also see the emergence of truly legacy-free notebooks,

Dave Liniger

We'll actually wear the suits on the way up. Well make sure we're stabilized and the temperature of the capsule is OK. Then we'll take them off and save them for an emergency -- some sort of pressure leak -- and then we'll be wearing them on the way down.

Martha Chavez

I think they should have let the parents know right away and sent an emergency memo right away.

David Ramsay

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Gary Williams

Our passing was excellent in the second half and we really executed. I was really proud of our team play, and we have to play that way down the stretch.

Chuck D.

Paul's worked extremely hard and has shown excellent play in practice and in scrimmages. Paul will probably get that opportunity at another time.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked. It is the first trophy I have won and the first as a new group so, hopefully, there will be more. When the second goal went away, I knew that was us on the way.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked.

Chris Collins

Some of that comes from offseason training. They do an excellent job in the weight room,

Chris Schuster

Our pitching staff has been excellent all year.

Jared Ingersol

Our pitchers did an excellent job of throwing strikes and getting outs when we needed them.

Todd Wilkinson

Our pitchers did an excellent job. I am very pleased. We made several adjustments in trying to pitch to their outstanding hitters. We did a good job of that.

Howard Archer

Our Sunday lunches have been an excellent flagship because that is often many people's first experience of our menus.

Tariq Altaf

Our position is quite clear...our response will be in keeping with the threats we are facing and with our national security interests.

Yasser Arafat

Peace is a one-way road, ... Let us together remove the obstacles facing us.

Johann Lamont

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Bob DuPuy

Overall the first round-robin was a success. The winners of Pool B will have their hands full next week facing rested Korea and Japan teams.

Zach Duke

Just facing Maddux. That's greatness, ... Any time I'm on the same field with greatness, that's something I'll always remember.

Prince Ranariddh

I think that to see Pol Pot facing a trial does not please Hun Sen very much.

Howard Davidowitz

I think the advertisers are going to go away. She's tarnished. And in looking to the future will she plead guilty? If you're an advertiser, you're facing a woman who may go on trial.

Peter Ward

It doesn't surprise me -- gold is facing some big problems.

Kevin McDonald

I stunk as a player, ... Facing those guys, I knew what a pro player looked like, and I knew I wasn't going to be one.

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,

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.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Steve Wood

That's what I'm most proud of about this team - the senior players are leading by example. It's a lovely thing to see.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Jeremy Shockey

He's going to be leading us to the playoffs for a lot of years to come.

Eduardo Perez

That's the way it goes. You've got to have a short term memory in this game.

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

Natalie Williams

Hopefully, we'll be making (a memory) in the next three weeks. That would be a perfect way to end a career.

Doug Noble

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

Frank Robinson

He has that mentality, ... You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Bill Gates

No one will ever need more then 640K Memory

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Don Patterson

I think Marco is poised to have a big season.

Ernie Accorsi

I don't have to talk to Eli. If he were another type of personality, it would be different. But he's as poised a quarterback as you could want, and he handles every situation in an unflappable manner.

Bill Cowher

He's a very poised quarterback and he has a feel for the game,

Brandon Stockton

He wasn't mad. He just told us to stay poised and have fun.

Dennis Jett

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Phil Singer

We're in a very strong position right now. We're poised to make gains.

Richard Sichel

They are really poised to put everything together.

Joe Torre

He's very intelligent, not pretty intelligent. So I think he was poised to make a decision.

Bob Elliston

Our old surface required significant repairs during the off-season. That's a process that can take several weeks. We don't have to do that now. The surface maintains its uniformity.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Valery Nesterov

It is an unpleasant episode, but the IPO preparation process is not going to stop because of it.

Stephen Moore

It is an ugly bill. This is the legislative process at its worst.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Jim Robb

I think this will keep that process on hold.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Alberto Fujimori

It is my purpose to remain temporarily in Chile, as part of the process for my return to Peru,

Mitchel McLaughlin

If this situation is not resolved satisfactorily, he will not travel.

Jonathan Tropper

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.

Robert Williams

When I get out of here I'm not going to look back. All I want to do now is resolve this. I just want to go anywhere.

Aeschylus

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

Jeff Koons

We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down.

Henry Mazurek

We will resolve it. Whatever time it takes.

Richard Kaplan

We have very little tolerance on this, ... While they're doing what they need to do, we are doing what we need to do. We're not resting until this is resolved with or without First Student.

Arthur Phillips

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Italian Proverb

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets

Michael Allen

We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,

Debra Moore

We have the sheets where you can see on each side of her where it spilled over. The sheets were a maroon color, so it's real obvious.

Sandra Dee

I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.' Somehow it stuck.

Roger McNamee

They started out in a world of spread sheets and word processors,

Jimmy Hoffa

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Richard Jefferson

It is better. It is more a stiff back, it is not spasms anymore.

Brad Penny

It was pretty stiff and it was getting worse.

Jim Farmer

There's no disputing it'll be a stiff test,

Gary Sheffield

It's still stiff and still sore. It's the same as yesterday. I'm day to day.

Bart Schouten

I think it's the strongest team we've ever fielded.

Sonny Rollins

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Charles Darwin

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Jack Thompson

We are teaming up with the financially strongest partner,

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Lex Luger

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

Bob Starkell

Cara always has some of the strongest performances.

Mark Schubert

It's one of the strongest teams we've had in years.

Beeban Kidron

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

Beck

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Barry Ritholtz

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Barry Lopez

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

B. F. Skinner

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Carrie Snow

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Gil Kane

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.