Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Preston

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Gregory Asner

People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

Donald Selkin

Some of the blue chip tech stocks, especially the Internet stocks, as we all know, have really taken it on the chin this year. So if you want to play the technology sector, you should stay with the ones that did not make warnings going forward, as did the Amazon or Nokia, so stay with those.

Todd Chanko

Overall, it's important to stress on the revenue side that sales are up. It's not about Amazon not being able to increase its top line growth.

Paul Aiken

The Amazon programs are the way copyright is supposed to work.

Nigel Hamilton

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.

Joss Whedon

I was given license to purely make it my own and yet she is already an iconic Amazon princess,

Jon Burnham

I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,

Sophie Winkleman

I'm playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called 'Elvenquest,' and I'm playing a Russian genius in the comeback of 'Red Dwarf.'

Nick Saban

Reggie had a chance to make a play on the ball, ... In trying to intercept it I think he put himself in a bad position to tackle the guy. It turned out to be a big play.

Reece Thompson

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca, much like Pepper, takes her job very seriously, but she doesn't take herself seriously. A lot of actors don't like to play the fool. They feel it weakens them in some way, but Rebecca gets power from it. So when bad things are happening to Pepper, or humiliating things are happening to Pepper, she rolls with it. And because she's able to throw herself in all the way, it makes the gags work.

Sergei Kupriyanov

Rejection of the solutions we proposed will play a very bad havoc on the Ukrainian economy and, which is most unfortunate, on the Ukrainian people.

Yasser Arafat

Regrettably, this is a dangerous escalation that drags the whole region into a very critical, bad and grave situation,

Justin Hott

Regis missed earnings badly in a critical quarter for establishing credibility with consumer investors. Instead, this miss has created questions as to whether Alberto's beauty supply business is truly better off as a part of Regis.

Simon Greenberg

Relaying a pitch at this time of year makes it much more difficult to lay a new one in the summer. The pitch here has always been a difficult one. Last year, it contributed to Scott Parker picking up a bad injury playing for us. It is all about where it is and where it can get the benefit of natural growth.

Jeffrey Greene

Our police officers also say they need help lobbying for resources for prevention and treatment. Dismantling labs leaves them with less time to chase bad guys,

Steve Jobs

Our relationship with Microsoft is kind of like a marriage. It's terrific 99 percent of the time. And one percent of the time we argue, usually over multimedia. And in life, that's not a bad ratio.

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.

Robert Seiple

Relative to what's at stake, it's trivial. What was at stake was a violation of the core principle of the universality of the human right of religious liberty.

Anna Burger

Organizing is our core principle. It is our north star.

Rob Keck

Patriotism is one of the core values of the NWTF. We are indebted to our troops and veterans and honor them in any way we can.

Bob Colarossi

Part of the mission of this event is to give back to the communities that we visit. As an investment in the future of California's children, the education curriculum is a core element of that mission and will help ensure that we leave a positive footprint on communities throughout the state.

David Wright

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

Dave Brennan

Some of those jobs are still going to migrate back down to Cincinnati, where Federated is located. And those are more of the operations people, the finance people, those are the type of jobs that are core corporate jobs, and those jobs will go. So it's not that there won't be something (of a) direct impact locally. There will be some.

Simon King

Our core skill is printing variable data onto products at high speed in the manufacturing environment.

Michael Moskow

Rising oil prices, like other unfavorable price shocks, can also feed through and raise underlying core inflation, ... So there is also a risk on the inflation front, and the risk is higher now than it was a year ago.

Matthew Szulik

It is at Red Hat's very core to help unlock the power of open source and open communities.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Rod Smith

Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

David Gibb

Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Greg Davis

I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

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.

Bill Buford

A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

Mike Shula

I think he could be ready to go at some point in June or July, if not earlier.

Jerry Glanville

June was a quarterback, but he went to all of my meetings. He liked what we did, and he studied it.

Wendy Roberts

I didn't pay $50 a ticket, wait till the tickets come out on June 4 to have hundreds of people push me over and knock me down on the ground,

Carl Yastrzemski

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

Fernando Martin

On June 30 I will have 99 percent of the staff (for next season) settled - and the coach, in two weeks.

Earl Graves

Since June of 2004, we've funded 73 charities.

Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Alexander Skarsgard

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

John Lackey

Our mitigation strategy was the realignment of the road. We need to back up and start all over with a new strategy. Otherwise, I don't feel any level of comfort.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Mike Brady

(Our girls) weren't going to settle for a tie and they picked up the level of play as they will have to do in our conference.

Jerry Cohen

Over 45 percent of Oregonians will qualify for some level of subsidy,

Kate Taylor

On the surface level they've got rid of a lot of the street element, but there's still the same old people in charge.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Harry Smith

Really, what it comes down to is: What's your level of paranoia?

Javad Vaeidi

We need some time to reach that level with all centrifuges because of the two-and-a-half-year suspension. However, the preliminary phases have been launched.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

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.

Lee Mendelson

There are so many segments that are appropriate today.

Francis Gannon

I think what you need to do in the technology segment between now and the end of the year is own the leaders,

Joe Eberhardt

The mid-sized SUV segment is probably not going to grow, but will become even more fragmented. To survive in the segment, automakers are going to have to make a real difference.

Tom Libby

It's one of the, if not the most competitive segments. You have high-volume brands, and a lot of their entries in that segment are flagship models.

Don Esmond

A play-it-safe-redesign of the Camry was out of the question. The market, and the segment in which Camry competes, is just too competitive.

Branko Ivankovic

Our players, when it's tough and hard, can do anything.

Sebastien Caron

Somehow, we always make it interesting. It was tough in the end, but we'll take it. It doesn't matter.

Felipe Alou

That could make it tough on him. It's a possibility.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Todd Galloway

I was just trying to be tough and find it.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is a very tough lobby. You have my sympathies, Condi,

Paul Collingwood

Kumble is a world-class bowler. He is tough to play on any wicket.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Stacey Koerner

Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 are probably the toughest battlegrounds.

Mack Brown

It will come down to who will be the toughest the longest.

Joe Nemechek

The toughest break, I think, we had was the Coca-Cola 600.

Gordon Brown

This is the toughest and most challenging year for the economy.

Alge Crumpler

He's the toughest guy, pound-for-pound, in the league.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

E. B. White

It was probably the toughest thing I've had to do - ever.

Mike Dunleavy

It's really the toughest part of our schedule.

Bethany Mota

Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.

Ashley Tisdale

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Patrick Campanelli

I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue.

Jill Sobule

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Miikka Kiprusoff

I don't know what happened. I'll look at the video and then I'll know better.

Shakira

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

C.C. Sabathia

Just one. But I've watched the video of it about 200 times.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Abbas Kiarostami

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.