Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Whetsell

As Blackstone started to look at some of our assets they made an offer for the whole company which we felt was very attractive.

Scott Benesch

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

David Bernstein

Companies can bring their own assets in the form of Java code and Web services and stitch those into this product.

Naomi Hasegawa

Deposits stopped growing and household money is heading increasingly to risk assets and will continue to do so as long as Japanese interest rates are zero.

Bernie Schaeffer

The so-called risky assets are continuing to outperform.

Madeline Albright

The struggle to reveal and deal with the full truth surrounding the handling of Holocaust-era assets is wrenching, but also cathartic, ... Only by knowing and being honest about the past, can we gain peace in the present and confidence in the future.

Steven Bangert

The strong growth in our assets under management during the first quarter sets us up for improved revenues in the second quarter.

Robert Stovall

The tech sector is where the money seems to want to flow. You can just look at last week's action, when all the averages were up, the money flows into technology, primarily in telecommunications. And even though the valuations have been high all of these quarters and still are, I guess if you want to do well in the market you've got to have some of your assets in technology, definitely.

John Whitehead

The teams bring diverse assets to the table. Some bring expertise in retail and residential developments; some offer experience in the design of large public infrastructure projects; others are best known for designing museums and cultural institutions.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

Jeff Kinney

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

John Tucker

What we interpret here has a major impact on the American life we have today. We have the Constitution and Charles Pinckney, we have the Revolutionary War and Fort Moultrie and we have the Civil War here at Fort Sumter.

Mr Bush

There is a process to get Charles Taylor to the court in the Netherlands.

Michael Osterholm

Charles Darwin could not have set up a better genetic re-assortment laboratory if he tried.

Scott Monarch

Charles Cunningham is the key. He is the only reason Hall went to Duquesne.

Flip Saunders

Charles (Barkley, TNT commentator) gave a great talk for us at halftime. He said the game was over.

Stan Heath

That was an incredible shot by Mitchell. He stepped up and hit it with Charles Thomas' hand in his face. That was an incredible shot.

Maury Povich

Well, if you hang around Charles Barkley a lot, you realize that it just may not be his hobby of choice.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Mark Batty

People are worried about possible net interest margin compression and credit quality deterioration, as well as slowing consumer loan growth.

Dannielle Romano

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Linda Pinney

Prescriptions going to consumers is like money going to consumers. The margin for error is zero.

Rakoff Carbonell

The shoes are a metaphor for these two women who have the kind of dynamic that a lot of women have with each other where one is thinner, the other is smarter. One is more attractive, the other has more money.

Warren May

Florida's really been leading the nation in job growth now for over three years. We've got a very dynamic economy.

Chris Mortensen

You can tell he's worked on his craft. He is so much improved since last year. He's a dynamic guy and you can see he's getting better.

Bob Bigelow

We should be serving the kids' needs, but there's an interesting dynamic here. There's far too many adults out there who think it's about the kids serving their needs or performing for them.

Demir Muftari

We've got a little different dynamic on the team this year. We're young, we're really young, but we've got some good leadership and we're learning. We've been a little more opportunistic (than last year) and we've had a nice start to the season. I'm proud of my girls, I'm happy with them so far.

Winston Scott

You go from zero miles per hour to 18,000 miles per hour in 8 1/2 minutes. So, it is the most dynamic ride.

Michael Levine

She was a great administrator and a dynamic leader of people, who was very imaginative and very tough-minded.

Peter Chandler

But the probability is that we still have to test the lows that we saw in July, and that should set up a much better dynamic for a more meaningful rally going into the end of the year.

Gail Goestenkors

She's one of the most dynamic players in the country. She's that team's heart and soul.

Trevor Ariza

A new start is always good. But I'll miss those guys. That was my first NBA experience. There's always going to be some love there.

Buddy Gouldsmith

As he gets more experience, he's going to get better and better. I think he's still getting used to the speed of the game a little bit.

Rachel Weisz

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Deron Williams

As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Eduardo Ermita

He can be removed and, as a CESO, he can be moved to another place where his expertise can be utilized,

Tom Sykora

It's something we didn't have the expertise to do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Kathleen Booher

They're stepping out of their expertise when they're doing that.

Tom Starling

We get their expertise and their connections in the community, and they get to help.

Steve Willsey

We led them in. They had the rescue expertise but we had the knowledge of the cave.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Zhang Yansheng

The soaring Sino-US trade should be viewed in the global context.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Ian Stewart

This is symptomatic of a stronger global economy.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Oscar Wilde

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Chuck Hill

The big thing hanging over the market is what kind of growth we're going to see in the second half of the year.

Eivind Reiten

a very important step in our growth strategy.

Mark Gertler

As long as productivity growth maintains its recent pattern, then I think he'll be in a nice position to maintain price stability and robust growth.

Dave Loveland

That's where the majority of the growth is, so it's no surprise.

Roger Altman

Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative time for the U.S. economy.

Sheryl Skolnick

Pricing is okay for the time being, but they're not growth stocks.

Martin Sorrell

Primarily our strategy is organic growth, buttressed by acquisitions.

Judy Bruner

Our third-quarter revenue growth was particularly impressive because this quarter is traditionally our seasonally slowest and has typically been down sequentially from the second quarter.

Nabil Sha'ath

and to start together to implement this road map -- each of us implementing his share of these obligations and responsibilities.

Howard Simon

She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.

David Wray

We took a poll of our members. Seventeen percent of our members said they intended to implement the Roth 401(k) in 2006. Eighty-three percent were going to wait and see or were not going to do it at all.

Richard Costigan

We can go to the PUC and implement the policy of SB 1, and that is where we will be going.

Victoria Strauss

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

Dan Roberts

We're evaluating how quickly we can implement that. It's likely something that we will do but I can't say when.

C. S. Lewis

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Gerry Adams

We have got a deal. We now have to implement that deal,

Ice Cube

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Nick Logan

We did try. At this point, he will not be joining us.

Chris Cichocki

Reading is unusually large for a team in this league, but it has been a problem.

Frank Whitlatch

Often times for very large gifts, there (are) naming rights attached.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jennifer Ehle

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Doug Parker

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

Gayle Green

That's where socio-economic status comes in. It's one piece of a very large picture.

Claude Mandil

A large proportion of the remainder will be (refined) products ... we have suggested they prioritize products,

Bob Anderson

You're just not going to see these large corporations and large jobs.

Jaime Camil

It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

Alfredo Stroessner

The state of siege was necessary. There was subversion in Latin America. It was more of a preventive measure. It wasn't used much.

Augustus

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.

Celia Rivenbark

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

Al Gini

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

Charles Clarke

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Connie Willis

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

Charles Spurgeon

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Yuriko Koike

Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,

Kate Warne

Pullback time. All the leaders turned tail and ran.

Darrel Mitchell

That's what leaders do. They step up and make big plays.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

Laura Garcia

Don't know. Don't know anything about Toronto. It's a major city, isn't it?

Joel Blackmon

Don't get me wrong, we wouldn't turn down a major record deal.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Steve Burd

We are very pleased with our 2005 results.

Dick Parsons

We are very pleased to have reached an understanding with Mr. Icahn.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

John Dunning

We feel like there's a lot of things happening. We've been pleased with what we've seen.

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Betsy Beers

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.