Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Leonard Teitelbaum

Despite its birth as a basic agricultural company, ADM has sent a message that its future lies in products surrounding energy, based on agricultural technology.

Mark Zimmerman

Depressed patients clearly have different perceptions than researchers running clinical trials about what it means to stop feeling depressed. Clinical researchers have identified a patient as being in remission from depression, based on certain behaviors or symptoms, but the patient may not feel any better. We may need to broaden our definition of remission from depression.

John Reid

Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable, ... This will mean a transition, a process, not a peremptory decision or a one-off event.

Martin Cohen

Any opinions I have are based on the same evidence that commissioners looked at. I haven't pre-judged anything. I don't have any preconceived notions. I have well-informed ideas.

George Hood

Any decision we make will have to be based on cost savings, ... I'd like to see a full proposal on how the county could save some money.

Rodney Young

Any decision that was made was not based on the fact that the content was religious in nature,

David Barry

An impeachment of the chief justice based on the evidence found will stand out as a historical aberration. It's been a frustrating day.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Robert Douglas

The sizes of homes keep getting bigger and bigger. We are looking for ways to control the size.

David Parsons

The size of the athletes, especially in the line of scrimmage, are bigger and stronger,

M. Wolfe

The thought is that together we can make a bigger impact on an organization than we can apart.

Jack Kemp

The supply-side claim is not a claim. It is empirically true and historically convincing that with lower rates of taxation on labor and capital, the factors of production, you'll get a bigger economy.

Don Mischer

The Super Bowl certainly pays respect to the host city, but it's certainly bigger than the host city.

David Mohney

The theater means a lot. It's served the college well, but the bigger picture is that it's served downtown Lexington.

John Curtice

The thing that would make me say this is more than something you can dismiss as exceptional local circumstances is that it fits a new bigger pattern.

Peter Capaldi

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Kobita Desai

The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The industry will have 125 million subscribers by the current year end.

Brenda Becker

We've been here since 1979. And we're taking a look at what our current residents are looking for in services. It Just felt like it was time for us to make a few small changes.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Ray Ozzie

We currently have about a 10 percent share of the online market. We fully intend to grow this share.

Olli Rehn

We should either have the constitutional treaty in force or we should decide how we amend or develop the provisions of the current treaty,

Sergey Lavrov

We think that the current situation permits us to develop this issue and do everything possible within the means of this organization, without referring this issue to other organizations now.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Mark Milner

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Alan Skrainka

The valuation gap between old economy stocks and new economy stocks is getting wider and wider. To me, it's like a rubber band. You can only stretch it so far and eventually it's going to snap back.

Robert McTeer

The wealthier a society, the less the income they spend on food, and less the income they spend on hard goods, and more they spend on services, ... That we have become more a service economy is not something to worry about.

John Stewart

The expansion of airports is guaranteed to increase emissions.

Ian Forrester

However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Anita Frazier

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

Javier Solana

Regarding exports of North Korean missile technology, export of technology is trade and if there are buyers, we'll sell.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Edward Hirsch

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

Walter Hill

As far as I'm concerned, all my movies could be westerns, so this is good stuff.

Tom Keith

As far as I know, we're wondering, too.

Tom Healy

As far as I know, we haven't been informed of this yet.

Greg Aiello

As far as I know, we didn't even know about the meeting.

Richard Suzman

As far as I know, this is the first study showing this.

Tim Ritchey

As far as I know they'd only sell him for breeding, and even that would not be a 100% sale.

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Wang Jianlin

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

Deb Mandeville

She has an outside chance, but she has to go faster than she's ever gone before.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Tommy Maddox

I think he's more comfortable with what he's doing, ... He's playing better and better and faster and faster.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Rue McClanahan

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Atharva Veda

The monks have tried everything and failed; the virtuous have grown weary of singing God's Glories.

Michael Sanders

Do you guys know that this basil is grown in Maine, in the winter? And if you look at it - look at this, see this. This is grown not in dirt. It's grown in water.

Bible Bible

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

Scott Bauman

Honestly, if you would have told me in November that we'd have a winning record after losing over half our scoring team from last year, I would have laughed. But these kids have come together and grown and learned, and I'm as proud of them as I could be.

Robert Blake

I didn't have much of a life, ... My kids were grown and gone. I was very, very single a loner.

Tony Meola

I think every week we've grown and I think we have a better understanding of each other. It's still a new team. My expectations at the start are like everyone else's in the league, and that's to try to win a championship.

Steve Scruggs

That was something we could absorb. From 2004 to 2005, we have grown exponentially. We can't keep up with that.

Leonard Hamilton

That was one we really, really needed. It was obvious we have grown up a little bit.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Ben Horowitz

There are no silver bullets...

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Mark Sanford

This number means we've outpaced two-thirds of the nation in percentage job growth over that same time period.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Stavros Dimas

The time for Romania to start planning and implementing this investment program is now.

John W. Snow

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Ted Stevens

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

Wes Anderson

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Charles Howell

The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

David Brown

Everything went fine. It took longer than I like, but I'm slow and meticulous because I like to get things done right.

Bunroku Yoshino

Everything is a secret pact if it's under negotiation. After the United States disclosed the official documents, it was no longer a secret pact.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

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.

Brad Adams

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Fred Hoyle

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Isak Dinesen

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

Bill Doran

Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.

Betsy Beers

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