Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Stephens

While we applaud the difficult decision to reduce the workforce in order to enhance shareholder value, yesterday's restructuring announcement leads us to suspect headwinds may be stronger than previously indicated.

Giovanni Bisignani

I applaud Malaysia's leadership in ratifying this important convention, which creates an international legal framework that will help attract finance to the aviation industry.

Gregory Geoffroy

I applaud Director (Robert) Mueller for reaching out to Iowa State and other universities.

David Collins

I saw Beckham go over and applaud the Welsh fans at the end of the match which was a magnificent gesture on his behalf. He appreciated the fantastic support they had given the Welsh team.

George McGovern

My role tonight is to sit there and enjoy it and applaud at the appropriate places in case he says something wise,

William Crow

We believe the Street should view the 41 cents per share number as the truest operating metric and therefore applaud this morning's report card.

Jodi Picoult

I think libraries are an important part of the community. If it wasn't for librarians recommending our books to people coming into the library unsure of what to read, where would authors be? I really applaud this community for being so serious about giving to their libraries.

Brent Martin

I applaud you for taking the initiative of starting the acquisition process, and I encourage you to finish it.

Andy Troszok

I applaud the system. I know the system works.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Fred Walker

These were individually, and certainly collectively, fatal wounds,

John Challenger

These ... factors are going to keep hiring from taking off in 2004. Job seekers certainly should not expect to see a repeat of the tremendous job expansion of the mid-to-late 1990s.

Doug Atkin

The stocks are certainly more expensive than they were a year ago. People are piling into this space, but I think that if you look at the benchmarks around the world these are great businesses.

Skip Prosser

Is it a heightened sense of importance because we're 1-4 as opposed to 4-1? I suppose so. But having said that, we prepare hard for every single game. Certainly we'll prepare very, very hard for this one.

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.

Amy Goodman

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Rush Limbaugh

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Tony Clark

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.

Seth Godin

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Megyn Kelly

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Andrew Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Christopher Morley

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Anne Bradstreet

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Clay Shirky

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

D. J. MacHale

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)