Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

John Bell

When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a position of observation of listening to the band, watching it, experiencing it probably closer to a fan thing than I've ever had the ability to do, or that I've ever let myself do. And I was just like, yeah, George is getting it on. And that's what you want for anybody's performance.

Linda Kristiansen

We remain skeptical of Sears' ability to turn around its apparel business.

Patrick Stokes

We remain confident in our ability to consistently achieve annual double-digit earnings per share growth over the long-term, with a 12 percent average annualized target through 2004,

James Cornelius

We remain confident about Guidant's ability to rebuild ... market share. But that rebuilding will involve time, resolve and resources,

David Kang

We remain concerned about the company's ability to stem the continued decline in profitability and credit protection measures.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?

Sandra Witelson

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

Michael Feldman

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Samuel Hoffenstein

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise, can you imagine what awful screeching?

Michael R. Bloomberg

What's more, an awful lot of people come into this city to work,

James Augustine

We're going to look awful on the film. You feel like you played well during the game and then you go watch the film. It's about an hour long, and Coach is stopping it every 10 seconds.

Hugh Fountain

We're fighting for a playoff spot. We're fighting to keep a winning season. We've had seven consecutive years of .500 or better. I remember in 2000 that was our third straight winning season. That was the first time that's happened at Charles Henderson since 1981 or '82. Plus, we are playing Stanhope Elmore. I've told our guys if we win this game they can say something that an awful lot of good Charles Henderson football players can't say - they've beaten Stanhope Elmore. So this is a big game for us.

Bruce Bochy

We're awful right now. And we know it. This has gone on far too long.

Chris Finwood

We're awful glad to have Bryan. We needed another left-handed pitcher, and he's been a little inconsistent, but he's had some good outings ... We're just trying to get him more consistent. But he's a great kid, and a good student.

Mary Adams

We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

David Brown

When we went into foster care this last time we talked to our children about our desire to adopt and they were all excited about the possibility.

Luis Rivera

Tomorrow we've got to show up with the same attitude, with the same desire and with the same approach we did today.

Gregg Brandon

We respect Omar's decision and we support him. Any coach would love to have an Omar Jacobs for another year, but we know his desire is to play professionally. We really appreciate his efforts in helping us re-establish a winning tradition at BGSU.

Bertrand Russel

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Walt Whitman

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Van White

What has saved the pews and what will revitalize this interest in a Frederick Douglass Freedom Center or something that gives appropriate recognition to the contributions that he and other people made in the area of civil and human rights, is an unprecedented willingness and desire to see it happen.

Ruben Jr

We felt it was important to have a face-to-face meeting with them. We had an excellent dialogue regarding Billy's future with us as well as our desire to keep him in Philadelphia. We made a proposal, received feedback, understand we have ground to cover and plan to have further discussions.

Brad Smith

We believe we have a set of principles that ensure we comply with all of our legal obligations in China and other countries and ensure we are consistent with the broad principles that the Internet creates and people's desire for free expression.

Brian Halla

What's needed is more funding for basic research, a desire to compete globally and an awareness of the role technology plays in our security and quality of life.

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Paul Gray

When it became obvious that they were one of the teams that we could be playing (in the regional) we made sure to scout a couple of their games. Jared Wood is a solid player. He shoots it well and he gets to the basket. Keegan is real active and is real solid around the basket. And their guard (Freeman) does a nice job of running the team.

Randy Harris

We're monitoring the situation, and we'll decide if there's anything that should happen on the Guard side.

Capt. Conway

We responded to the hurricanes with between 200 and 250 medical, security and logistic support personnel as well as aircraft from the Army and Air Guard sides. This was huge for us because it came two weeks after the BRAC decided to take us off the base closure list, which would have taken the C-130s used to help following Katrina.

Bob Horodyski

We're going to go as he goes. When he does what he can do, he's one of the best point guards in the area. When he tries too hard, he's one of the worst.

Jake Krause

We guarded them a little harder in the second half. They made some bad passes and took some tough shots and that's where we were able to get some separation.

Brian McDermott

We guarded pretty well except for the last five minutes of the first half. (Eastern) really went after us inside (the lane) and got us into foul trouble. They took advantage of it, but, fortunately, we shot well for the first time in a while.

Mark Turgeon

We guarded out tails off all day. We got every stop we needed until the very end.

Bill Fennelly

We guarded hard enough in the first half to be in the game. The kids sensed that Britt was hot and we kept giving her the ball. And we just kept guarding like crazy.

Jill Malko

We've asked her to do things that she didn't anticipate. She has played all these roles because of all the injuries. But she's the type of player that can play anywhere on the field and that's pretty hard to find.

Rich Miller

We've always said that's probably the widest mound in the league ? and maybe all of baseball. I really think the mound is too wide. That ball by Heintz was hit hard and then it hit the side of the mound. But that's not what lost us the game.

Chris Lynch

We've always reached the hardcover buyer more than the paperback buyer.

Bob Morton

We've always known the destructive powers of hurricanes. The difference now is that we have that much more information. It's that much harder to ignore.

Mitchell Hurwitz

When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.

Jim Crumlish

When we were losing, going into practice every day was tough. You go in every day to practice knowing that it will be brutal. And when you are losing, it's that much worse. You don't get to see the benefits of all your hard work, as you do when you're winning.

Jermaine Spencer

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Phil Cook

Unless she commits herself to living like a monk, it is not likely she will be able to achieve all of her goals in the next few years.

Michael Ende

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Hattie Carnegie

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.

Jose Rizal

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Kathryn Harrison

By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.

Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

Kapil Sharma

My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.

Matt Thissen

We knew we were going to rely on Kim an awful lot. To play the point guard position as hard as she did, and for as many minutes as she did, says a lot about her desire and ability to pace herself during a game.

William Ginsburg

Vernon Jordan is an individual who I understand helped Monica get an interview with a public relations firm in New York where she was eventually going to -- and may still -- park herself as an entry-level intern or apprentice, or whatever they call it in that trade.

Clint Hurdle

We can definitely get used to (having Kim around), because while he's had his trials and tribulations in other areas, he's playing good baseball for us.

Neal Hersh

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

Heidi Montag

I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she's investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Kim Ji-woon

What can possibly be the common factor in a Kim Jee-woon film? I think what really ties a lot of my projects together is that there is always a character that believes his life is not exactly the way he wishes it to be.

Kim Jee-woon

I never make films thinking 'This is my film. This right here is undoubtedly Kim Jee-Woon style.' I am not even sure what 'Kim Jee-Woon style' is. When I make films, I never allow myself to make hard-set decisions ahead of time.

Elliott Abrams

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

Louise Nurding

My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces.

Chuck D.

We've always got a chip on our shoulder, they always say the offense has to pull us through. But in order to win games in the playoffs, we knew our defense had to step up.

John Hoch

When we were up seven at halftime, coach told us to keep playing our game. We knew we had to keep rolling and in the second half we just shot lights out.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

R. Ingram

When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.

John Tesh

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Edith Nawakwi

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

Arron Afflalo

When we were down nine, it became a kind of desperation time for us. But three minutes is a long time.

Lorenzo Williams

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

Stephen Wright

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

Melissa Hughes

When I was in the play this summer, and Cody wasn't, we had about 30 minutes together each day.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Todd Galloway

When it comes down to the last four minutes and games are close like that, we have won games. We have been successful. So that gives us confidence. It allows us to be poised.

Malorie Blackman

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

Michael Redd

We're starting off slow (in the fourth quarter). The first couple minutes we just floundered away. It's happened to us the last few nights. We cannot afford to do that.

Timothy Adams

We're going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they will do what they say they are going to do. We would just urge them to undertake a quicker pace of reform.

Ben Venzke

What we're seeing is an increase in the evolutionary pace of IED (improvised explosive device) design. It's increasing at a pace we previously haven't seen.

Bob Clarke

What they're going through now will just enhance what they will do next year. I think they will move along at the NHL pace a lot quicker because of what they're going through now.

Jeff Cheah

What all this tells us and is certainly telling the Fed is that maybe we need to examine what the sustainable growth rate really is. The risk is that we have an economy that is growing at a pace that historically suggests we should see inflation pressures, but we're not seeing that yet.

Donald Trump

What a great change of pace to see a huge company like Ace Hardware use their promotional opportunity on 'Apprentice' to help local communities across the country.

Didier Lombard

What has changed is the pace of evolution.

C.J. Watson

We're just trying to stay confident and humble at the same time. It's a lot more fun. This pace is what I like to play, and we have the athletes and shooters to do what Coach Pearl wants to do.

Jim Calhoun

Very few players are able to maintain the pace he's on. I don't think anybody I've ever had can get as hot as he can get. Ben (Gordon) and Ray (Allen) are probably better shooters, but nobody gets as hot as he does. He's done that against a whole bunch of folks. It's not the first time.

James Williams

World consumption is growing at a very rapid pace and the time lag to drill new wells to add to capacity leaves us in a precarious position for the next year or so.

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

Rick Spring

We've always set team goals. Making 100 points in a game isn't one of them, but if it happens it happens.

George Campbell

We've always made it a point to be strong from the goal out. Defense is always a priority, but these kids have offensive talent that can't be denied.

Bethany Irwin

We've always had the offense, it's just defensively we had to turn it up a little bit better. We held them to 16 points at halftime, which I was pretty pleased about.

Kevin Cato

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

Nick Vitucci

When we were 12 points behind Wheeling, we never doubted ourselves and always believed we could do it.

Greg Maxey

When we went up 4-2, at that point we should've closed it out. We kind of let them get the ball rolling. They played hard. They're a little deeper than us and they had a little more pop in their step at the end. Believe me, I was a little nervous.

David Hall

When it came down to it, I won the points that mattered,

Anthony Browne

When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.

Paul Allen

We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

Paul Allen

We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

Joyce Compton

We've asked McKenna to play a lot of positions this year, and she has really done well offensively, too.

Jim Rutherford

We've always taken the position at this rookie camp that we'll give opportunities to guys who deserve them. Estrada continued to play well. He deserved to go.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Sophia Young

We've always been the underdog, and it's the kind of the position we expect to be in.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Elliott Shaw

We're starting to come together. We're not relying on one or two guys. We're a real team at this point. It's nice to see.

James Chessen

What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.

John Rogers

What we rely on a great deal is the person's demonstrated behaviors over time, based on people who know them and have worked with them.

Jay Feaster

What has happened in the past is truly ancient history. Now the objective is to come in here and have a solid training camp. ... We can't afford to get caught up in the hype. It's about having to do it again. You can't rely on what you did 18 months ago.

Matt Peck

We are getting more balanced. We are not having to rely on one or two people to win. We are more athletic than we were before.

Robert Cincotta

We're getting more content oriented in the ELL Department...rather than relying on tutorial support.

Rich Carroll

We're getting a lot of hits early. We're getting contributions up and down the lineup. I prefer that instead of relying on two or three guys to deliver the long ball.

Jon Klein

We're honing the cast of 'American Morning' in order to focus on what the audience wants most and what CNN does best: the latest news delivered with the greatest intelligence, ... In a morning television landscape littered with mindless entertainment, there will be one name you can rely on for no-nonsense news: O'Brien.

Brad Hopkins

We're not an offense that can get everything back in one chunk. When you have an offense like that, you are relying on patience. Sometimes maturity is something that allows patience to happen. They weren't forcing us into doing anything we didn't want to do, but regardless the penalties and the mistakes we were making were negating any flow of momentum we had.

Alex Smith

We're so close, and sometimes the scores may not reflect that, but we're so close to being competitive in this league. There's a lot of things we're doing better now that we weren't doing at all earlier in the year. Coach always says it's a marathon, not a sprint, but that's the truth.

Muriel Siebert

We're going to see what Bush says tonight, and we're going to see what Greenspan says tomorrow -- now that's a real one-two punch.

Huston Street

We're going to really play it by ear and be cautious. We're not out of April yet -- that's what I keep getting told. There's a lot of season left. ... Talking to Larry, he says these things can take five to 10 days.

Peter Young

What we're hoping to do through this federal process is see if we can formalize a rule that specifically says the swim with program is prohibited and that you are -- you have only so much approach to any dolphin that's out in the wild.

Amy Grant

What a great thing to wish for, your life plays out in a way, that you miss something that's so important to you, and somebody says what would you like, or if I could wish I would turn back the hands of time and go back and enjoy this experience that I missed.

David Kochman

What he says is careful and correct. The most important fact is that Rod Smith is the only Democrat in this race who has taken not only one, but two seats from Republicans.

Mike Sanders

What he had done with these photos was place them in water in a plastic bag with what he says was an attempt to destroy them.

David Wood

We had 13 girls get awards. That's the starting lineup plus two, so I think that says a lot. We had a real solid starting lineup all the way through and it says a lot for the talent that we have.

Fernando Ferrer

We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.