Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Volpe

Any fee that the county implements, it's passed onto the home buyer. When you tack on fees or you tack on taxes, all that does is raise the price of affordable housing.

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

John Lawrence

As people move to more affordable housing closer to work, it?s simply just a matter of supply and demand. They build more houses in Forsyth County because there is more available land.

Lisa Carlson

People assume they've got to go the traditional route. But we are beginning to see a lot more affordable low-cost options.

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Kobita Desai

Affordable services, increased penetration, and a willing Indian government would ensure and drive this kind of growth.

James Browning

Affordable properties will not look different or be based in ghettos away from private homes on the same developments.

Greg White

Affordable housing was in our bag of tricks. But we've lost that tool. Now there's nowhere for teachers to live.

Connie Clark

Coach Looper is so great to have on this team. She is so good at working with the girls and bringing them to their full potential.

Edie Ousley

The task force is bringing this in for a landing. Opinions about it vary greatly.

Troy Percival

The Tigers took a chance on bringing me in. I was healthy when I got here. It just didn't work out.

Ward Ald

The theme celebrates North Chicago's vision and increased growth in bringing in new business development projects to our community.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Mitch Daniels

a critical first step in bringing President Bush's budget to fruition. We look forward to working with the Budget Committee and the Congress to make these priorities law.

Todd Akin

So part of my work was just an educational job of bringing congressmen up to speed that we had this power.

Michael Wright

THE RON CLARK STORY is the true story of one teacher's courage to leave his small hometown and head to one of the most challenging public schools in the country. We are proud to have an actor the caliber of Matthew Perry bringing his talents to such a memorable, inspirational story.

Roland Nash

I've been talking about bringing down the ring-fence for five years, so any delays now wouldn't be surprising.

Colin Morton

The business really does seem to be firing on all cylinders at the moment.

John Shanley

The business prospects on the international front continue to become more and more important for Nike.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

David Sharp

The business plans we've seen when 3G was put together show it's very difficult to make a return on your investment unless you set up a business community where you are all putting services through the infrastructure. That makes it very important for everyone to be working to standards.

Bill Hauck

The business plan raises a lot of questions. Is that other money going to materialize? Is this project the highest priority for federal funds at this point?

John Abraham

The business part is over with. It's time to get to the personal part, which is getting back with my teammates and getting ready for the season. For me, it's more getting ready to play for the first game, not trying to hurt the team.

John McCaul

The business owners and residents are very concerned.

David Janazzo

The business outlook for wholesale transport, IP services and consumer voice-over-IP remains opaque. But Level 3 now has more time.

Charles Dickens

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

Tony Blair

Of course we must make sure that there is a proper and independent and fair process. But I am quite sure that the Iraqis have the capability of doing that,

Jim Press

Pound for pound, this new Tundra delivers more looks, power and capability than any truck before it.

David Ryan

These appointments demonstrate our commitment to the development of our capability and experience in dedicated market sectors.

Peter Palese

The virus has been around for more than a dozen years, but it hasn't jumped into the human population. I don't think it has the capability of doing it.

Jon Gruden

This is the first team I've been on that starts every practice with an anti-turnover circuit. We're coaching that hard. ... We're actually implementing drills, specific drills, to increase our capability of hanging onto the ball.

John McGraw

This course gives me a lot more insight into the mentality and capability of attackers. We know all these vulnerabilities, but there are probably so many more that no one knows about.

Guy Boutilier

Alberta Environment is doing, and has been doing, everything possible to respond to protect the environment, ... We can always learn from these incidents how we can do better and thats why Ive established this commission to review our capability to respond to these types of situations and recommend how we can improve.

Sue Feldman

There is a welter of information today, and it's only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That's what's driving innovation, and we'll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Dorothy Denning

Conversely, terrorists who are motivated to cause violence seem to lack the capability to cause that degree of damage in cyberspace.

Jason King

You've got to take every opportunity you can and capitalize on it. You don't know how many chances you get at doing something like this and get a chance to win a (Calder) Cup.

Scott Wilson

Enjoying a moment of international sympathy, Sharon's government is moving swiftly to capitalize on its unilateral withdrawal and ongoing demolition of 25 Jewish settlements.

Janice Charles

As they say, defense wins championships. We put most of our focus on defense. We want to pressure you for 32 minutes. We want to force turnovers and we want to capitalize on them.

Rich Aurilia

At that point, we had left 10 guys on base. We had had a couple opportunities, but we didn't capitalize on them. Getting off the hook like that was good.

Erin Hunter

Contrary to public perception, it's not just 'college kids' or 'bleeding edge' internet users who are streaming videos. This creates a fantastic opportunity for advertisers to capitalize on what is now a mainstream audience.

Hines Ward

To me, it's like you put in all this hard work, and we didn't capitalize on it. When you look at it, we had a great year.

Gary Beutler

We did a nice job pressing to start and jumped to a nice lead, but later we had a few steals we couldn't capitalize on.

Chris Armas

We did a good job with Ruiz, and we had a couple of clear chances, but we could not capitalize on them,

Jason Simmons

We had our opportunities (against Buffalo). The thing now is to go and capitalize on them. The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio. The thing for us is to go in and win that.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Roberta Zelleke

As parents, we're not ready for this. We don't see it coming. We can't stop it, but we can change how we react to it.

Courteney Cox

That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.

Laurence Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes yourdestiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in yourlife. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as wellas your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought isgoing.

John Edgar Wideman

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Debbie Ford

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Doug Adkins

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Kim Rupert

Productivity still remains really solid, and one of the hallmarks of this whole expansion. If we can hang on to that I think the perception of where we're going in the market could change dramatically.

Lamar Alexander

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Xavier Niel

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

Dilip Shanghvi

Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

Tom Staggs

Other companies with on-demand products will feature some of our content in the near future.

Charles Fishman

Other companies may get into the hunt that haven't been, but it's not a watershed event.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Brent Bracelin

Dell is the last of the big hardware companies to report, ... We expect them to deliver, but we view what they say as a non-event. There's a low probability that they'll talk about an industry-wide recovery.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Brent Bracelin

Dell is taking market share in a more challenging environment. There a lot of question marks on how strong the recovery is but Dell continues to execute.

Woody Smith

Definitely. If he continues to hit like that, he's going to make us better.

Terry Jicinsky

December continues to be the softest month in terms of visitor counts, but things have been improving in recent years.

Paul Mason

Despite the increases in fuel and gasoline prices, the overall inflation, or deflation, locally continues to defy logic.

George H. W. Bush

despite this positive news, Kerry continues his misery tour and furthers his efforts to talk down the growing economy.

John Guiney

And then it continues on a more northeast track, just off the tip of Long Island (New York) by late (Thursday) or early (Friday) morning.

Don Waddell

The selection process was an extremely difficult one and that's a terrific statement for hockey in the United States. It means our talent pool in this country continues to grow.

Stuart Miller

The strength of the national housing market continues to fuel our record bottom-line performance and record second-quarter sales,

William Rhodes

The China-US relationship is evolving into the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

Ramzan Kadyrov

evolving into a fully fledged member of the Russian Federation.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brenda Song

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Brendan Fehr

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Tori Kelly

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

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,

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.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Horace

Anger is short-lived madness.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Jeff Bridges

I've always tried to mix up my roles as much as I can.

Jesse Harris

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

Vicki Kramer

It was the perfect mix of ingredients for West Nile.

Michael Socha

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Dale Decker

The mix will stick to the rubber tires on the pneumatic rollers.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.

Steve Tuttle

There are some pepper sprays that don't mix well with Tasers.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Cameron Crowe

And yeah, she would put 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' on it. You do go for some obvious stuff when you make a mix tape because it reinvents itself.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Jonathan Ornstein

Without the trans-Pacific operations, we can operate very profitably.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Ed Hazel

We don't operate off a script or know where this is headed.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Michael Greenberger

Everything he did and everything he has said strongly suggests that that plan was never read.

E. B. White

At this point we don't know who she was with, but we plan to find out.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.