Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burt Rutan

Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun.

Mike Wallace

Just merging the two organizations has a lot of challenges, ... The potential pitfalls and opportunities for disagreements exceed whatever benefits could be gained.

Larry Ellison

Joe brings perspective and experience not commonly found in Silicon Valley companies, ... In the last few years we have transformed Oracle Corporation into the leader in e-business. Joe will help us clearly and broadly communicate the benefits of e-business and e-government.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry has made up a false measurement to support his ongoing efforts to talk down the economy, ... John Kerry's support for higher taxes on small business, Social Security benefits and gasoline would bring misery to America's working families.

Bill Whyde

I think it's a good idea. The economic benefits will be great. It will make millions of dollars for the city. They will hire 3,200 people. Hopefully most of them will be from Barstow.

Jennifer Robinson

I think it means there's a lot of work to be done, not just getting information but actually making it so that they want to come in and get screened. They can see the benefits of an early screening process for the overall health.

Dave Sheffield

It benefits you winning those games because your kids get a little more confidence. But other than that it doesn't mean much.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Radio Entertainment

has offered our musicians an extremely fair contract proposal. ... The contract includes increases in salary and benefits and fully protects the existing overtime system. They have rejected that proposal and walked away from the table.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

Lisa Whiting

I think a lot of it has to do with the rise in gas prices just from this week. If it's too expensive for them to get here, they're not going to want to pay the 90 or 100 dollars to stay here a night.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

David Curry

It grew to huge proportions ? much larger than I expected. I was kind of thinking if we could get in the neighborhood of three or four hundred dollars that would be pretty good.

Chris Paladino

It is not an option. There were no student housing dollars used towards the construction or development of the retail or of the fitness space.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Alan Johnson

Having the Blazers in Portland is important to the whole region and the state. The economic impact the Blazers organization has is very significant. And when you think about their payroll and what taxes they pay locally, it's a huge factor.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

John Hill

Gold prices have been resurgent, following oil, inflation data, and fretting over global economic imbalances.

Mitsushige Akino

Good economic reports provided us a relief and I expect stocks will rebound from yesterday's losses.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

J. C. Watts

If you shoot the C.E.O., they'll hire another one. The job will still get done.

Mark Neumann

If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

Anson Funderburgh

I love Sammy, and I can't imagine moving on without him, but at the same time, we might have to hire somebody else.

Amy Adams

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Konstantin Guericke

The truth is that most people prefer to hire someone who is known by someone whose opinion they value and trust. But there was never before a systematic way to identify inside connections to the hiring manager.

Al Jourgensen

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

Unknown Unknown

Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.

Gary Graham

It's important enough that we should take another look at it, ... We've hired (engineering firm) HMG to take a look at the rates. There's still going to be a sewer rate increase, but it may be spread out through more years.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Cynthia Reichelt

We're prepared for that, but we haven't had to go there yet and hopefully we won't have to.

Leslie Verslues

We talked and hopefully we'll be ready to play (today).

David Dismukes

I welcome the investigation to hopefully put the issue to rest once and for all, but it doesn't seem likely that something will be found.

Dwyane Wade

I will be soon. Hopefully I will be there in 2008 at the Olympics. Hopefully when I get out there one day soon I will get a warm ovation.

Chris Harris

I will be learning all season, and the only way you get better is through experience. I will take some bruises, but hopefully I don't make the same mistake twice.

John Gibbons

He's going to be really excited, probably throwing 100. Hopefully it's 100 strikes. He'll probably be throwing 100 miles per hour.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Walt Riker

I think all the projections show this is going to be win, win, win for McDonald's, the Smithsonian and the millions of visitors who go there.

Dan Newman

He may spend his tens of millions on slick TV ads, but this isn't eBay. The governor's race does not have a 'buy it now' option.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Niall Horan

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

Malcolm X

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

Matt Mullenweg

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

Richard Moyroud

They have been on the planet for millions of years. Why doesn't it have the right to continue?