Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.

Wendell Coleman

We're just so dependent on the automobile for everything we do we can't go the to store if we don't get in the car and drive and it certainly makes sense to me that we start incorporating some other modes of transportation.

Jeffrey Hirsch

It's not inconceivable to remove GM. But I'm not sure if there is another automobile company that better represents the industry and the auto industry is here to stay.

Tom Kowaleski

It is very important for us to have a partner who understands the business and someone who understands GMAC's strategy and how it relates to GM's automobile business.

Tom Kowaleski

It is very important for us to have a partner who understands the business, and someone who understands GMAC's strategy and how it relates to GM's automobile business.

John Friedrich

This is yet one more problem for the lake that stems from private automobile use in the basin.

Jay Carter

It's a transformation from the horse and buggy to the automobile. We're not going to do away with the automobile but for flight, for trips over fifty miles it's just so convenient and so easy and so safe.

Harold Mentzer

It was the main transportation system for years, but the automobile put it out of business. It was the way you traveled. You could travel from Sebastopol to Santa Rosa in far less time than it now takes.

Susan Glaspell

I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.

Madhur Bhandarkar

As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

Alan Gerry

We want it all to blend in with the landscape.

Bill Callahan

Whether or not you are a team that has a blend of experience and youth or you have a young team, or whatever -- you have to compete to win every year. That is just the climate of the NFL these days.

Jen Smith

With this makeup you simply smudge it on, blend and go.

Jeffrey Pollack

World Series of Poker fans around the world can now experience our unique blend of thrills and excitement on their mobile phone. These products are official, authentic, and -- like our tournament -- the real deal.

Fernando Torres

We're hoping that with the right blend of battle-hardened veterans and the freshness and verve of youth, we can become a very compact side and one that is very difficult to beat.

Tom Reilly

It seems to me that that is not blending in as much as it should or could with the surrounding homes.

Larry Smarr

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender and sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

Nancy Gioia

Ford has the right blend of expertise necessary to lead this research. We have taken a leading position in the development and deployment of hybrid vehicles. We also have put more than 1.5 million flex-fuel vehicles on America?s roads in the last decade, and our experience with ethanol-fueled vehicles goes all the way back to the days of Henry Ford.

Josh McRoberts

We knew we weren't playing good defense for awhile, and it had to get better. We weren't containing people, and we weren't relying on each other.

Dan Sylvester

We played 3-2 (zone) and man, but we did a better job of picking up their 3-pointer shooters. We just did a better job of containing them.

Grant Laman

Containing Watson will be key. He did some damage to us.

Sam Brown

We did a better job of containing them in the second half. We made them shoot over us, and rebounded much better late in the game.

Henry Spencer

The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

Travis Sysko

Nick Flannery had a nice fourth quarter. We had a tough time containing him. We had too many turnovers down the stretch and they made their free throws.

Leonard Hamilton

That was what the players were saying - 'We have to get stops,' because they were kind of having their way with us there for a little while. So, they just buckled down, and we started switching everything. ... We just put a smaller lineup out there on the floor and switched everything and hoped that we could do a better job containing them.

Tim Parmeter

We played pretty solid defense and did a good job of just containing them and keeping them in front of us.

Elaine Makatura

We'll continue vacuuming the product and containing the booms throughout the night.

David Cowley

You can't mix ethanol in gasoline and ship it in a pipeline. The ethanol will corrode the pipe.

Guy Caruso

Ethanol supplies are expected to remain tight and increased possibility exists for regional short-term supply disruptions and price volatility.

Daniel Yergin

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

David Cowley

We are in a pretty good position as far as ethanol here. We use so little of it in the summer.

Don Hill

The plant is going to make about 40 million gallons of ethanol a year, which is about midrange in size (for an ethanol plant).

Larry Johnston

Nobody wants any development in their back yard, even though ethanol plants are a good neighbor,

David Pimentel

I wish ethanol were everything that advocates say it is, but it is terrible that this has been latched on to and proposed to be a solution to our liquid fuels problem.

Pam Maiolo

The lack of ethanol is one of the problems, and geopolitical unrest is another.

Matt Hartwig

There are still improvements you can make in terms of planned efficiencies, and getting more ethanol from that bushel of corn.

Ronald Johnson

They are the most flexible instrument in the world. You can use them to protect your portfolio. You can use them to speculate,

Gilles Hallé

They're flexible now. I think they got the message.

David Cole

They have moved from a rigid culture, to a much more lean and flexible company.

Rick Sharga

Property values have appreciated to the point where homeowners have flexibility and there's a way out. Lenders are more flexible because there's more equity.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Lesley Nicol

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

Bruce Lee

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Guus Hiddink

We have picked a squad that is flexible and will be able to adapt,

David Gross

We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and) private sector led.

Carrie-Anne Moss

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

Martin George

We have seen a massive increase in fuel prices.

Ali Larijani

We have said long before that the matter of research is not part of the negotiation, research has its own meaning and it has nothing to do with producing fuel industrially.

Steve Williams

We want more from the chancellor. We are not happy with the levy on fuel tax.

Daniel Gorrell

What they've got to do is talk about fuel efficiency.

Bill Richardson

We're getting a head start in meeting the president's objectives of protecting Americans from possible fuel supply disruptions this winter,

Mike Rizzo

We're hoping to be able to offset the price of fuel ... by having more passengers ride ... instead of having to raise fares,

Connie Brown

A lot of people are rationing fuel out.

Bill Douglass

This dislocation in the Gulf is not going to go away quickly, ... For the marketer, it's a nightmare. You don't know how to price the fuel from day to day.

Andrew Wright

They plan to operate it as an apartment.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Meg Scheu

Street-runners have safety concerns, and crews get training to operate under special conditions.

S. Truett Cathy

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

Doug Hock

We feel we can operate within those (restrictions).

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Kathleen Bergen

Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Greg Waldrop

All of my qualified students are 100 percent employed. Not every student is qualified.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Craig Faulkner

We've got a really tough road but if we win those three I think we can get the No. 1 seed in the district.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

Gerald Cox

It seems like we've been on the road forever. It really does.

Rudyard Kipling

They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.

Jason Richardson

It's the first road win of the season and when you play at the Garden, you always want to win.

Stan Williams

It's an unusual year for us. We've got a lot of road work going on in different phases.

Miriam Landsman

It's a really country-looking road and if they take out all of those trees, it's going to be very sad.

S. E. Hinton

There's a lot of road to go for them and us. But we'll see.

Charlie Munger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Eric Schaeffer

There isn't a single scrubber in the state of Maryland.

Ashley Josephson

They're so long and lanky that they get touches on every single pass.

Steve Nash

They're going to single one out because it's on Kobe? To me that's a shame.

Brad Joyner

It was getting late, and No. 1 singles went very long.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Charlaine Harris

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Charles Francis Richter

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.