Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Bruce Allen

He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.

Andrew Sorensen

He's doing an outstanding job. We're in 100 percent agreement on the terms of his service.

Christopher Hill

It is a good agreement for all of us.

Carol Raulston

I think the industry has literally been shaken by this month's events. There was a broad agreement that we really needed to focus efforts, particularly looking at technology and training.

Bill Daly

I think the importance of meeting quickly after the season cancellation in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible is maybe we can take some germs of where there was agreement before the season cancellation and build on those, but time will tell.

Christopher Hill

I think the Chinese draft is an excellent basis for reaching an agreement.

Susan Petniunas

It is clearly time for the U.S. to honor its treaty agreement with Canada, and to end these illegal duties that continue to harm American consumers.

Venkaiah Naidu

Joshi has said that the audio cassettes earlier and the CD were being circulated with the intention of damaging the party's reputation. Those who are being the circulation of the CDs should be found and the conspiracy unearthed.

Josh Pais

I created an online program that has audio lessons and PDF worksheets and two hours of video. So it's like a course you can do at home. And people are loving it and getting jobs from it.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

I kept that audio cassette, but I haven't yet had the strength to listen to it again.

Don Rushing

The equipment cost is 90 percent. That gives you an idea of how much Audio Ethics (the contractor) has helped us.

Tony Norfield

The dollar started a bit stronger today, then weakened a bit after the broadcasting of the bin Laden audio tape.

April Horace

At this point, which function is cheaper is unclear. When GM offers XM, it's included in an audio package, with 6 speakers and a CD changer. In other cases, you might see it offered in cars for $300 or less.

Todd Wagner

The Internet started in a silent-movie phase -- a text-oriented Internet. But now it's moving. We look at ourselves as that portal that people come to for streaming audio or video programming.

Chuck Taylor

Radio's success has a lot to do with in-car listening, and when you lose that element, you lose a dynamic part of what makes any audio service successful.

Dan Murphy

The XM Passport is a whole new audio format, in the same way that CDs and MP3s are audio formats. You can take a CD from the stereo to the car, or take an MP3 file from the computer to the portable player. With the XM Passport, you can take XM from one product to the next to listen. It goes wherever you go.

Adrian Moss

I wouldn't say Anthony whipped him, but he taught him. You're defending Anthony Roberson every day, and there's probably no better scorer that's come through this program than Peep. When you're defending him every day, you have no choice but to get better.

Ani Difranco

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

LaVerne Knox

I think that's a good choice. He didn't want to go far from home.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Kurt Campbell

We (the U.S.) face a fundamental choice between a fundamentally flawed deal and no deal.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Brian Iannessa

I think by helping alleviate the cost of veterinary care, we are giving pet owners peace of mind. It allows them to have a choice about their pets care.

Fergus Clydesdale

I think it's wonderful that people have a choice and have the money. But not all people have the money or the choice, and we have to be concerned with those people, too.

Christie Hefner

It gives no more choice or control to parents, but it takes away the choice of millions of adults who enjoy watching Playboy-TV before 10 o'clock at night,

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Vince Young

Just like those other guys, you've got to start somewhere. They are close to me, and I know they won't hurt me. And they are intelligent. I have the last say-so on everything, but they know what I want and the things I'm trying to accomplish.

Lee Terry

Just pick you out a tree to stand under. I usually stay here pretty close to the truck. They don't seem to mind that.

Sarah Krycinski

Jordan gave it all he had. It was good time for him, close to a personal record.

Chris Simms

Joey and I have a very close relationship; we talk about routes like that all the time. When we come up to the line of scrimmage in that situation, we have two routes in mind.

Brian Cashman

Joe has a great deal of trust in him. Joe has worked close with Ron for a number of years, and he's been talking to him for three years about replacing Mel when Mel decided to retire. This is the man he wanted.

Frank Castillo

J.P. got a pretty good look but it just didn't drop. The games in this district are so close that it comes down to making plays and making free throws.

S. Walker

I think it really (threw us off). Some of the girls didn't know whether to play on them or play off. It slowed the pace down a lot and that's what kept the score close until we went on our run, and that forced them to play a faster game.

Carl Goldberg

I would say that the Giants understand, without any ambiguity, what the expectation of the governor is as far as the content of the documents we need to move into the master planning process,

Monica Lewinsky

He didn't discuss the content of my affidavit with me at all, ever.

Sophie Hannah

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Karen Finley

I will be looking at the FCC content restrictions on Howard Stern,

Mike Benson

I actually look at marketing more like developing content for the show. We're really setting out in our marketing to prove what these shows are. And while we can hype and sell, I'd rather tell a story than sell a story.

John Battelle

Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.

Charles Spurgeon

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Steve Jobs

PDF is the richest content on the Web, and we're going to view it native,

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Dennis Cary

In the international markets ... the first- and business-class customers are about half the revenue on the airplane. These are customers who for a 12-hour journey are looking for a different experience.

Paul Matthews

In recent weeks we have seen increased demand from customers for a competitive term deposit rate,

Dan Butler

I realize you have a personal life outside of work. And when you're here we expect you to put the customers first.

James Carbone

His customers were kids. His customers were young girls.

Rick Tolman

I'm hearing estimates of maybe a week to two weeks before they can resume exporting. But if it goes longer than that, our customers start turning to other sources of supply and we start losing sales, which obviously has an impact on price.

Jim Robbins

If the price tag for sports is too high, our customers shouldn't be forced to pay for it,

Mark Bailey

Kansas as a whole is mostly rural. How can we develop this model in a much more rural population? How do you do this in Hays, Great Bend, Salina? That's the next big issue.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Sean Casey

There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.

John Schuerholz

He's a good young player and he's going to have a fine career. He'll develop like all of our young guys have developed -- at his natural pace. It will happen when it happens.

Randy Caldwell

Good developers have always known the value, but it's become much more prominent in the last five to 10 years that more developers are seeing the value of working around trees.

Tony Lewis

He's got a ways to go. He has the speed, but he's got to sacrifice in the weight room. The one thing about it, you can develop strength. There's not a lot you can do to develop the innate.

John Giannini

He's a very gifted player, and he's really worked hard to develop his skills. In the short term, we couldn't have had the success we've had (this year without him). He has helped turn the program around this year.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Paul Nolte

The ISM report did have a big impact on the markets, and part of the reason is that the economy is now more of a service economy. And services are going to be much more directly and more immediately impacted by the higher energy prices we have seen.

Arthur Lewis

The insistence by CBC on the need to be able to hire more temporary workers can be traced directly to the corporation's serious funding shortfall,

Chris Hammond

A happy employee will lead directly to happy customers.

Toby Miller

It will save us time to take it directly to the public for a vote.

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Laurie Johnson

About half of the economic losses would be attributable directly to the flooding.

Julian Smith

I'm a Star Wars junkie, and I know the number of science fiction fans we have here. I knew this would be a problem, just like I knew everyone would try to download Internet Explorer 5.0 when it was released.

Andrew Ference

I'm disappointed with myself. I went on to the (NHLPA) website where there's the (absentee-ballot) form to download and fill out. I was all ready to do it, but I missed the (deadline). I feel for the guys playing down in the States. Down there, you get no news about Canada.

Adam Zawel

It's unbelievable what people are willing to pay for these ring tones, ... Certainly, if it were free more people would download them but there's probably endless room to raise prices.

Joanna Newsom

I would happy for someone to download my music.

Bill Gates

It's been shown that most people download viruses unwittingly-they don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.

A. Hodge

Most people download using a file-sharing program. As it is, a price hike would just force people to find new ways of getting their music.

M. Wolfe

It is a small game that took about two to three weeks to make. Since its release, it has been downloaded over 120,000 times from my Web site, been the 'Featured Widget' on www.apple.com and won an honorable mention in the Unity Dashboard Widget Challenge.

Richard Greenfield

I'm still skeptical of the size of an individual download model, as (digital video recorder) technology is growing.

M. J. Rose

I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him last night and this is the first time he's been in a playoff situation. I just told him to go enjoy it.

Josh Beckett

He can't even give me a week to enjoy my home run. He has to hit to a shot in the upper deck. He sure can steal the show, can't he?

Greg Behrendt

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjoy fighting one of his friends?

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Steve Carpenter

I think the ownership is happy and the fans seemed to enjoy themselves. I think the scoreboard reflected that.

John Reed

I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.

Joe Gibbs

It is fun being in, I'll say that. It's a thrill to be in the playoffs. I really enjoy that part of it. From that standpoint, it makes the day much easier.

Vince Young

I was enjoying it. I'm at home. I'm always relaxed.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Jenny Pfeiffer

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

Carol Brady

What we found was that many of the mothers that experience those poor outcomes are unhealthy and uninsured before they ever get pregnant.

Buck Showalter

Going in, that may be the thought. But we want to see, with the experience he had last year, how he's grown from that.

Robin Cook

There is no purpose in extending the talks any further,

Michael Gartenberg

This is a question of extending their reach.

Jusuf Kalla

We are now evaluating the possibility of extending AMM.

Aristotle

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Edwin Morgan

People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Mike Beall

I think you can see by the reaction of my girls. They know we're going to have to play them again. It's just another region game, just like the last one was. Just another region game. Our focus right now is Flagstaff next Tuesday on the road.

Joanne McCallie

We've got to go after a Goliath. We've got to focus on ourselves, what we've got to do as a team.

Jim Finlen

We told the guys they'll wake up Sunday morning and it's a new day. I just hope we can get our focus back.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Vince Borg

We are focused on the integration of Placer Dome's assets, people and projects.

David Kessler

What you need to do today is to focus on the science.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Robert M. Pirsig

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Thomas Morabito

They've been turning around for years now, and right now they're embarking on the latest phase of the turnaround.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Courtney Smith

I think we'll probably see an up session in the market over the next several days.

Howard Ward

I think what we're seeing in the market is the reflection of a lot of uncertainty right now,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Matt Ridley

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

Emyr Parry

If you can do one centrifuge, you can do 164. If you can do 164, you probably do many more. That means you have the potential to do full-scale enrichment. If you can do enrichment up to 7 percent, you can do 80 percent. If you can do 80 percent, you can produce a bomb.

The Bride

Inconceivable." You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Kurt Knaus

Their certifications are suspended. That means they can't occupy those positions in any mines in Pennsylvania, but they could occupy for other positions. For example, they can be miners.

Edmund Burke

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival

Chad Epperson

The road to success is always under construction. Under construction. That means you're always working. So that's what he's doing.

Ronnie Brewer

All the things that he's done here, for them to put me and him in the same category, it means a lot to me. I think it means a lot to him as well.

Greg Sterling

This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens.

Chris Gent

Spain is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile markets.

Greger Johansson

The mobile systems side is doing well, but Marconi and the fixed-line side are weighing heavily.

Paul Miller

The results show that there is a lot of outdated thinking in terms of mobile technology security.

Mark Elliott

The unique thing about the mobile phone is it's always with you wherever you go, but you don't always know how to get where you're going.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Werner Herzog

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.

Will Self

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

Jodi Picoult

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

Naya Rivera

The day that I got the phone call to tell me that I booked ‘Glee’ I was shooting ‘CSI Miami.’ I was playing this heroin addict…I’d been on a million auditions where I sang and looked exactly the same way and didn’t do anything different. And so for this to be the one that popped it was just like what happened? It was the perfect timing and the perfect role for me. It was like everything came together.

Nicholas Hoult

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

Naomi Watts

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

Kiana Tom

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

Ben Silbermann

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

Peter Morgan

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Tina Kuckkahn

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Nicholas Hytner

Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Robert A. Dahl

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Rudyard Kipling

it's always best to tell the truth.

John Burdett

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Lauren Myracle

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

Mother Jones

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Tom Anderson

That's right on top of us. It would be right in our backyard.

Stuart Appleby

It will be one of our top 10 doing something,

Alex Kelly

It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.

Bobby Cox

They're very similar. They're on top of their games.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.