Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Jim Anderson

Bankruptcy didn't 'go easy' for us. Almost one-third of our membership has been furloughed.

Eda Shan

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Chris Barnes

Babies are fun for punting. Even a lousy kicker can get one almost all the way over a football field.

Carol Bartz

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Peter Capaldi

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

Sam Bodman

As of right now, in Houston, Texas it's almost impossible to buy gasoline,

Tim Lindloff

As long as he stays out of foul trouble, he's been doing a very good job on the defensive end, just hanging around the basket and blocking shots. We usually try to match him up with somebody that's not going to hurt us from the perimeter and put him around the basket, almost like playing a one-man zone in there.

William Jefferson

As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck.

Matthew Wagner

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Mark Fields

Our approach is not thinking how much do we shave dealer margins. Our approach is that as we come up with our products going forward that they have a strong point of view in the marketplace, that they represent good value and good quality to customers so that dealers can earn a good (margin) on them.

Janet Yellen

Our approach during this phase must be particularly dependent on information from incoming data,

Mahathir Mohamad

People tend to respond more positively to the friendly approach than to confrontations. Pushed into a corner, even the weakest will fight.

Jesse Garza

People don't take the time or put thought into it because they believe it's superficial, 'Does this closet reflect who I am?' It's a smart way to approach it.

Matt Busby

People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

B. F. Skinner

Operators today are constantly looking for ways to lower costs, while at the same time developing more environmentally friendly processes that their customers are demanding. This is an innovative approach from Orange and a service that Greenwoods Communications is looking to develop to meet growing operator demand for recycling, instead of writing off equipment.

Preston Sturges

The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Steven Wood

These data provide some encouraging news for the factory sector, as unwanted inventories are being worked off and shipments have bounced.

Ian Shepherdson

The statement leaves room for inaction in November if the data fail to thrive.

Martin Pyykkonen

Things unraveled more quickly in the past year than they thought internally, so they need to get someone from the outside to improve investor perception, preferably someone from the data networking industry.

Kevin Harris

These are tremendous numbers. There is nothing solid in the latest round of existing home sales data to show that we're slowing down.

Jennifer Lerner

These are the most exciting data I've ever collected.

Geoff Kendrick

The risks are now skewed to the upside (on U.S. interest rates). 4.75 may be a done deal (in March) and depending on how the data goes, 5 percent may become a done deal as well.

Kanwar Chadha

This is designed for portable navigation systems or handheld GPS receivers, where people can sync to the network server once a week and after that they don't have to work about getting data from satellites. Start-up times will go from 1-to-2 minutes to less than ten seconds.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.

Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Ben Harper

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Vijayraj Bhatt

Controversies can make news but can't produce results.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

Joel Davis

The quieter things were, the more things were going on,

Tom Browning

I've never seen a reaction like it, it's just incredible.

Lee Ferridge

It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

David Attenborough

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

Studs Terkel

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

Ricky Williams

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

Patricia Briggs

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Paulo Coelho

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Mark Twain

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

Louis L'Amour

I have been nothing... but there is tomorrow.

Fernando Pessoa

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

Francois Pinault

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.