Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Peter O'Meara

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

Brett Hull

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

Glenn Matthews

In hindsight it was probably naive of me to make a promise that with commercial realities you can't really keep. But I'm not making any excuses. I made that promise and I regret not being able to keep that promise.

Roger B. Taney

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Don Reynolds

In a lot of ways it's been like a dream come true for us. The theater is designed in a really neat way because it invites people to a downtown experience. It's more of a theater that would accommodate a night out on the town, compared to the cookie-cutter model of some of the commercial development chains.

Casey Affleck

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Donna Cerrato

The competition is very tough compared to what we run into during the regular season.

Richard Burr

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to ... New Orleans.

Col. Hoge

A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.

Jeff Suppan

It's pretty amazing, the type of players that he's compared to. Names that you've heard your whole life, and he's putting up those types of numbers. ... He's the type of guy who has that ability, and has a good work ethic and it shows out on the field.

Mike Johnson

That's pretty large compared to other stop-motion puppets, ... The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Mary Williams

That is a small number, compared to concerns expressed that the law might be abused or people might feel pressured to use it. It confirms that the law gives the terminally ill some control and say in their final days whether they want to have physician help in hastening death.

Richard Peterson

The world prior to that legislation was tepid compared to the enormity, velocity and scope of the deals in telecommunications that we've seen since then.

Mary Taylor

The purpose of the forums is to stimulate thinking and discussion about how communities can incorporate innovation and technology as components of their economic growth strategies.

Craig Ellis

In terms of fiber-optic components and being the leader in that space, hands down, it's a wonderful company.

Gary Davis

The issue of high tech is a big one with many components and we really want to get it into the open and onto the agenda. These politicians do seem to grasp that there is an issue here, at least related to the people side, because I tend to split it into two ? the people side and the industry side.

Anthony Chan

The headline number is encouraging, but if you strip out the volatile components and look at core growth, it's telling you we're turning the corner, but we're not running around the corner.

Susan Lacy

American Masters ... I felt incredibly honored to be the first broadcaster approached. . . . We knew it was going to be an original film and a big film that had a lot of components to it.

Albert Lin

Some sectors, such as foundry, microchip packaging and components for LCD televisions that have better demand outlooks were still the market's leaders.

Ann McInerney

They are a good team watching them on film but it's even better in person. They have all the components you need to be a championship team.

Sen. Hanabusa

This is not an impact study. This is a baseline environmental study that has 17 components that have to be addressed to satisfy the law.

Kurt Karl

This is O.K. news on inflation. There is no major worry here. No components are rising rapidly.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Fred Eckhard

He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.

Mark Harnly

He's (Davis) tough, and he'd be real fun to watch if I was sitting in the bleachers and scouting, but he's not real fun when he's dropping 21 on you.

David Wright

He seems to be the one to always drop the hammer.

Buddy Bell

He's dropping a few pounds and starting to look better. He's got a ways to go.

Karl Muggeridge

It could have been worse because my fast lap in regular qualifying was second fastest of all and that means I only drop down to start form the second row.

Kate Warne

I think we are seeing a little follow-through from the election ... but, overall, the market has been pulled down by the drop in oil prices more than anything else.

Kevin Miller

I think Wall Street's fairly optimistic, ... I think they're standing on the sidelines waiting for that last shoe to drop right now.

Ernie Accorsi

I was just overwhelmed with not only his story but the way he told it. He's such a thoughtful, intellectual, moving person. You could hear a pin drop in our interview room when he was done telling us a story.

O. Singh

Hopefully, this is the last one. If you make one mistake, it's so easy to drop one, two, maybe three shots here.

Kurt Fuller

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Lorraine Bracco

I like real estate because I am the boss.

Christie Wilson

As we see some real estate markets slow down in other parts of the country, it's encouraging to know that our market is not only healthy, but remains quite vibrant.

Susan Isaacs

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

Jaimie Ross

Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.

Elaine Stritch

I've come to the point in my life where less is more. The minute the last hammer fell on the last nail I called the real estate office.

Charles Gargano

This is not a traditional real estate project. This is a project where thousands of people lost their lives.

Jerry Jones

This is not a ski-area opportunity. It's a real- estate development opportunity.

Robert Atkinson

Alan's varied real estate experience will go a long way with helping us as we roll out our Justice stores, which is largely off-the-mall. He is familiar with the players, and he's got the inside scoop.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Zheng Jingping

It is fundamentally normal but it is at the upper end of the potential growth range and we need to take note of it.

Graham Cluley

There is going to be a real growth in 'pump and dump' spam.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Alan Curbishley

For a variety of reasons they haven't been playing regularly so it's time to see if they can get a loan move and get back in the swing of things.

Suze Orman

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Simone Weil

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

Stuart Pearce

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said 'no', I don't think they want him to go anywhere.

Jean Chatzky

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Thane Bublitz

Over the longer-term, Countrywide is well positioned. There is too much loan production capacity. The servicing portfolio should offset that as originations slow.

Wesley Hill

We have two options. We could give them the money or we could support or back a loan for them.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Art Hogan

I think that turned (the market) around, ... There is no inflationary pressure and that was one of the major concerns.

Pete Boone

I think that, when it all boiled down, production of the offense was a major factor.

Hugh Johnson

I don' think we are ready for a major move,

Murray Walker

I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there.

Fidel Castro

We can do it better and take on the major leagues. ... For each player that leaves, 10 better ones arise,

Samuel Johnson

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Ron Clark

We represent the reputation of BYU, and there is little room for error.

Eddie Guardado

I wanted to represent my country. It's an honor.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Charles Freeman

Stop Undermining My Constitutional Right to Represent Myself.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.