Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

William James

To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy . . . we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.

Eric Stern

The actions of Democrats ensured this victory for California families. The Democratic Party in California has displayed its strength by demonstrating its commitment to the family.

Jacques Chirac

The actions carried out by Milosevic will not triumph, ... Barbarism cannot have the last word. Justice must really win in the end, and the criminals will have to defend themselves.

Jay Hood

The appropriate actions were taken. Some allegations are still under investigation,

Sathya Baba

That which happens physically on the outside in terms of actions is not of major importance. What is important is that which comes from inside.

Robert Glaser

Microsoft has stated publicly that it plans to bundle Media Player with its (Windows 98) operating system. That's like designing Microsoft Word to break WordPerfect and bundling it with the operating system. Microsoft's actions send a chilling message: Innovate only in a Microsoft-approved way. What Microsoft is doing is wrong and must be stopped.

Kathleen Vokes

While the employee separations were difficult for everyone affected, these actions were a necessary response to the company's current economic challenges. The company adhered to the law in making these difficult decisions.

Bruce Campbell

I can't think of any organization where there isn't room for improvement.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Elijah Wood

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

John Delaney

There is a lot of interest out there in this job, which is a high-profile one,

Don Strock

There's some interest in some of the guys.

Robert Coates

There's more interest than there is an agreement.

Robert Menendez

I start from the view of thinking about what is the national interest of the United States, and what is in the national security of the United States.

Frank Clemente

What The Washington Post might bemoan as a special interest earmark, the Dayton paper might tout.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

Chris Beard

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

John Kilduff

There was a late wave a selling at the end of the day.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

James Lowry

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her even richer.

Paul Holmes

how can you be late when you don't have to work?

Wayne Wonder

My first time in the studio was in '85 but I didn't actually record in '85. I started recording the right way in the late part of '87-'88.

Bryan Kelly

That was huge. It really deflates a team when you score late in the half.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Mike Lalonde

We didn't score on those chances, but I think we just have to keep getting the puck to the net and it will happen.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

John Caudwell

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Martin Bashir

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Pieter Mulder

We are now paying the price. This should not be seen as a racial argument, but as a simple truth of management.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Heather Thomas

I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for them to do better than you. He can go on to do what he wants now.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

David Mitchell

We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution has been reached.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Annie Leibovitz

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

Angela Merkel

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Angela Carter

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Anthony Bourdain

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Ricky Gervais

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

Brian Eno

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Bram Stoker

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.