Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Ween

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

David Bailey

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

Dennis Christopher

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

Dev Hynes

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

John Forster

That was the biggest win of the day. Celia hadn't beaten her in two years of trying.

Greg Andrews

We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids have a lot of heart, and our goalkeeper (Patch Skinner) is playing with a lot of heart at the goal. He's going to give it his all if the players in front of him do. We have just one shot to shock the Silver Division, and we want to do that.

Jo Maso

We have won 13 out of 15 matches in the tournament in three years, we are unbeaten at home in seven matches since last November and we have beaten the tries record.

Jim Noonan

We came out and tried to play our game, but we couldn't seem to make a shot early and they hit everything they threw up there. Maybe if we could have hit a few shots, we could have at least kept it closer, made more of a game of it, but I'm not sure we could have beaten them even then. They are that good.

Bill Fox

We'll pick something people know but something that hasn't been beaten to death.

Jessie Evans

That would have been huge for the program, beating them again. The place was filled, and we just didn't make a couple of plays late that could have changed the game.

Nick Mangold

That would be great. Could we find one more (first-rounder)? Could we sneak another one in there? I always like beating Miami.

Chad Greenway

That was typical of what the refs were doing today. But it's not about that. It's about Florida beating us. They outplayed us today.

Jim Calhoun

The 16 beating the one, it's going to come. There is just too much parity in college basketball.

Paul Thompson

That was a job well done. We've swept them in the league, but with Newcastle beating Belfast it makes the way we played in Nottingham all the worse.

LeBron James

We can't keep beating teams like Phoenix, and Detroit, and San Antonio, and then lose to a sub-par .500 team. It's not going to help us.

Romain Grosjean

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car!

Ernie Whitt

We had our chances, we had our fate in our own hands and didn't come through with it. Anything can happen, you look at the odds and they are probably worse than us yesterday beating the U.S. but then that's why we play the game.

Kendra Clemons

We had opportunities and we just didn't capitalize on them and they did. That's just what is the difference between beating the best and wanting to be the best.

Imelda May

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Patrick McGurn

The '90s was the slippery slope from managing expectations to managing earnings to outright fraud.

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Edward Keon

We've gotten more optimistic on earnings on U.S. stocks recently.

Stephan Droxner

VW had very strong earnings in the fourth quarter, but it was not only the numbers that were good -- overall, the tone is more optimistic now than after the third quarter.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there. If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Brendan Barnicle

Most of the news in terms of earnings is out there, ... If they were to lower guidance dramatically or take a much more negative tone, that would be different, but I think in light of all they've got going on with PeopleSoft they're unlikely to do that.

Tim Anderson

Merck tells an interesting story, yet the five-year revenue and earnings growth guidance seems far-fetched.

Robert Long

Microsoft tomorrow is the most significant earnings report this week. Everyone knows management's usually fairly cautious, so if they say something really good, that could help things a lot.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Seline Skoug

We're really hoping that in the next year or so, we can expand even more.

Dakota Pawlicki

We really want to expand as an RSO and help the community.

Ted Roof

Well expand what were doing a little bit.

Stan Pohmer

To be complete, to be a destination for food rather than just a place to pick up a few staples, Target really has to expand its grocery.

Andrew Sukawaty

Basically, it is going to expand our services and extend the life of our service to the end of the next decade,

Sal Galatioto

I expected the hockey fans to want hockey. The question is will they be able to expand the business. The stronger teams are going to be in good shape. We'll see what happens to more marginalized franchise.

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Mark Anderson

That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.

Stewart Alsop

Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.

David Filo

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

Chuck Austin

Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before.

Bill Gates

Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.

Chris Grisanti

Microsoft could very well be the next Microsoft.

Drake Johnstone

Microsoft would do whatever they can to keep AT&T from going to AOL.

Harvey Saferstein

Microsoft needs a settlement more than the government.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,

Carl Cohn

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,

John Mitchell

I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Bill Budge

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

Bill Bryson

Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.