Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Pat Summitt

As a great long-range shooter, she has drawn the best defender, usually the most athletic, sometimes players with a lot of size. In essence, with her ability to shoot the ball the way she can, she has become a target for every team we play.

Alec Richards

As a goalie your main job is to stop the puck. I view it as an exciting challenge every game and I try to do my part to help my team win games. I have a lot of confidence in everybody's ability in front of me, so it makes my job a lot easier.

Brian Sabean

As a GM, to get a switch-hitter who's a leadoff hitter with a lot of dimensions -- power, speed, the ability to play the outfield the way he does -- is a godsend to the organization. The opportunity was great, the timing was wonderful and he's very deserving.

John Efford

As a major energy producer, Canada has the ability, and the obligation, to be a part of this important effort,

Alan Wilson

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

Thomas Bailey

The bottom line is that this transaction will dramatically change the financial profile of the company and significantly enhance investor confidence in the ability of the company to deliver future growth in its results.

Bill Lester

The building itself could function forever. The real cutting issue is the ability to generate money.

Jim Mooney

Avnet has utilized Data I/O's automated systems for some time, but this investment in these multiple systems is due to a careful trade study from which we determined Data I/O's systems represent the best match with our current and future requirements in both programming technology and capacity. Continuing to utilize these capabilities will undoubtedly prove to be a huge advantage for our customers when servicing their needs. It is also important for us to optimize Avnet's ability to support customers on a worldwide basis. Leveraging Data I/O's strong relationships with leading semiconductor companies on an international level will help us achieve that goal.

Alex Neve

And there's a strategic moment now to adopt a new approach.

Mark Bryant

A re-analysis of pertinent figures at Monday's meeting led the board to consider and adopt the lower figure,

George Romero

A real program called Helping Hands... real monkeys are put in homes with handicapped or disabled people. They can get you your lunch, answer the door, turn the TV or music on... like having a little helper. They're raised on Discovery Island at Disney World, and you can adopt them!

Trip Hawkins

Anything that comes along that gives people a new way to have social contact, they adopt it.

Alan Davidson

The smart domain-name holders protect themselves in two ways: first, they complete a trademark search before selecting a domain name to ensure availability, and secondly, once they adopt the name, they register it as a trademark to protect themselves from business disruption, ... This way they are covered from all sides.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

Louis Farrakhan

Adopt a family, then the government can assist the families to get back on their feet,

William Butler Yeats

Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Kofi Annan

Specifically, I ask developing countries to improve their governments, uphold the rule of law, combat corruption and adopt an inclusive approach to development,

Eddie Fierek

The bye is the advantage. Playing a L.C. team that's better than their record, that's not easy.

Yuan Li

Banks can take advantage of their marketing network and customer base once they start their own insurance business.

Lisa Schriver

Ball control-wise, I think they (Bemidji) had to use their left side a little bit more tonight. They were really effective on the right side and in the middle against us in Bemidji. It didn't seem like they were able to hit a lot and I think the reason for that was because the pass wasn't up to the net where they have a little bit of a height advantage on us. So that was a positive for us.

John Williamson

As people become richer, they also start wanting things like democracy. The fact that India already is a democracy is a huge advantage on China, which could be strongly disrupted down the line.

Stephen Johnson

As leaders, the best of the best, we need to take advantage of the opportunities that have been given to us and take somebody with you.

Mark Pryor

As I traveled my home state last month, I heard from countless citizens who believe the oil companies are taking advantage of them, and can you blame them? ... It's hard for the people in my state as I am sure it is for the people in your home states to pay record high prices at the pump, while at the same time opening up the paper and seeing oil companies making record profits.

Dale Cutsforth

That was a big win. Last time, we had several opportunities to put the game away early and didn't take advantage of them. Coming back the way we did was a good win for us.

Ron Turner

That was a big jump for Kyle. We challenged him all week about taking care of the football, taking advantage of opportunities, executing the offense and giving ourselves a chance. Let's see how good we are. Let's see what we can do. We made very few mistakes, and that is what it's all about.

Jim Ryan

That was a big help to us, because if we don't get that call we're punting, ... The thing that made me happy is that we got a second chance and we took advantage of that. We were in a bad situation to be in a third-and-six, but other than that we had a big pass play and a couple of big runs and got things going well.

Ken Banks

As a company, who would you rather lose market share to, yourself or someone else? It is the competitive nature of the business that you watch your competition goes. You either lead or follow, but you always want a share of the market.

Charles Pena

As a company's fortunes fare, so do the CEOs and other top managers, and that is the way it should work in the business world,

Kathleen Hogan

As an ENERGY STAR partner, Marriott has distinguished itself by demanding superior energy performance in their business and seeing real results. Through ENERGY STAR, these Partners of the Year are leading a nationwide effort to protect our environment through improved energy efficiency.

Nikesh Arora

As and when further business models evolve on the mobile devices, we'll deal with that as we go along.

James Packer

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

Carolyn Thomas

As a kid on Saturday night, the streets were full. Now the only business we get is from the (Museum of the Middle Appalachians).

J. Horton

The business we're in is filling our airplanes, and we're going to fill as many of those seats we can.

Mike Moran

The business sector is worse than previously believed. And exports were softer than indicated by initial estimates.

Eric Lascelles

The business sector in Canada continues to grow at a moderate pace.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Robin Sorensen

That's just one of the ways the restaurant wants customers to feel important. Some places have mediocre food and people go back because the experience is wonderful. We think we have fantastic food and we have a great experience, too.

Kyle McSlarrow

You would not just be violating the First Amendment, but be hurting the very customers you're trying to help.

Guy Kawasaki

You're looking for chinks in the armor. You're looking for pockets of dissatisfied customers that you can steal from them.

John Walton

You're going to have customers who come in here to steal things. You're not going to stop them. If somebody gets killed in the process of them trying to stop that, it's not worth it.

Brian Black

Young people's schedules are challenging. We're taking it to the customers instead of having them come to the servants.

Kevin Miller

After 30 years of working in daily newspaper journalism, I'm excited and quite lucky to have this opportunity.

Andras Batiz

The scene even surprised us who meet the Prime Minister daily and obviously know him in a way most people don't.

Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Masaaki Toi

The expansion of code-sharing will offer more convenience to customers, as they will have more varied flight schedules to select from. We expect more daily trips between the two countries.

Pete Doherty

Nice to meet you. I don't want to waste anyone's time but my name's Laurie Hanna, I'm from the Daily Mirror , have you got time for a quick 10-minute chat?

Hideo Kojima

Should I use this opportunity to start doing daily headstands?

Winston Churchill

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Mike Hanson

It is something that they think about, not only when they go on similar calls, where their incident may have happened, but also something that they think about on a daily or weekly basis.

Karl Lagerfeld

In the streets of Paris, you see more long dresses in the summer than you see in the winter, because all the winter long used to be heavy, heavy material, but now they are different. They are open. They are pleated ... They can move in it. They are not something uncomfortable and impossible for daily life.

Carine Roitfeld

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Aristotle

We are what we reblog.

Ben Huh

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

David Clarke

We might just be at the point where the utility of the Internet stalls--and perhaps turns downward.

Chuck D.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Tim Berners-Lee

Things can change so fast on the internet.

Mark Zuckerberg

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!