Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Fox

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Joshua Shapiro

The big question now is how much companies will be able to raise prices for finished products to offset the hit to profits from higher unit labor costs.

Bill Maris

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Peter Cardillo

As long as the economy doesn't go into a recession, I think these (smaller) companies will continue to outperform large-cap stocks,

Ted Arrington

As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're going to have big contributors who have special interests controlling the outcome, whether it's video poker or the hog farmers or tobacco companies or the trial lawyers.

David Moskowitz

As potential patients, we would want these companies to make incremental improvements. Without it, we would end up only with first-in-class products that are not as good as they could be.

Mike Ross

As people move in, companies follow them. We're fortunate that we're in the right place at the right time,

Bradley Belt

As long as companies remain in operation with ongoing pension plans, they have a legal obligation to meet their funding requirements.

Patrick Brogan

As long as investors keep bidding up the price of the long distance companies on speculation that there might be an acquisition, it actually makes an acquisition harder to complete,

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Ryan Anderson

The switchover means you need a digital-ready TV, not a high-definition TV.

Ross Mathews

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Dick Murgatroyd

I simply can't tell you how much this means to me.

Mike Mahoney

That's going to be up to him because it's a new position. By no means is he being banished from anywhere.

Stephane Dujarric

Zero tolerance means zero tolerance. We have a responsibility to act.

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Charlene Li

Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.

Charles Barkley

Social media is where losers go to feel important.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Edward Ruscha

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Bobby Miller

Even though the media has dubbed me America's most controversial writer, occasionally my words find an open mind and I end up with a new friend, and at least on that day, I win.

David Davies

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Ann Cleeves

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Sherri Flynt

Say they're under two years old, there's a television in their room, and they never watch that television -- they still tend to be overweight.

Jane Fonda

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Diane Abbott

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Damon Lindelof

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Dennis Prager

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Clint Walker

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.