Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Dunne

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

Michael Rosenberg

We want to give the lowest dose to get the job done, ... I think it's part of the continued evolution of the pill.

Mike Yancosky

T.J. wasn't being a player and he wasn't focused on some things, but it turned him around. He had a great section tournament, and he continued it here.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Milder weather forecasts for this week and extraordinarily high stockpiles continued to weigh on sentiment.

Bruce Hertzke

Motor homes are a luxury item and we expect to see continued cyclical swings in demand,

Edward Lazear

Most who have been looking at the fourth quarter view that as a blip rather than a trend and expect a continued strong economy.

Reynaldo Garcia

Matt was huge on offense and defense. He got into foul trouble early but he continued to battle. On defense I think he must have taken at least four charges.

Carlos Ramirez

It is a privilege to recognize the contributions of the many individuals and organizations that have played a key role in the establishment and continued success of UNM-LA, ... UNM has had a presence in Los Alamos as far back as 1956 with the establishment of a residence center. What we are celebrating today is the establishment of the official UNM branch, opening in 1980.

Phil McGraw

It is an honor to be invited to millions of viewers' homes in the U.S. and around the world. It is a privilege and not something I take lightly. I am excited to have this continued opportunity for so many years to come.

David Easthope

You look at Morgan Stanley and its peers, you see a lot of reliance on their proprietary trading desks and a willingness to take on more risk. If the markets are reaching a cyclical peak, which I think they are, profits are at risk when the economy slows down.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tyler Fleck

The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less.

Dan DiMicco

Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control.

John Taylor

Tech seems to be feast or famine. But we expect the life sciences sector to still be strong.

CHARLEY ARMEY

Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, which you would probably expect him to do. But he's getting more and more refined all the time.

John Gibbons

Sometimes the harder you try the tougher it gets. (Towers) will be there in the end. He's just going through a tough stretch right now. He's always won for us and we expect him to again. He's just off to a slow start.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Tim Baker

Homes are kept up to the 'nth degree.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

David Williams

We need more volunteers, particularly during the week, ... A lot of (damaged) homes haven't been touched and people are trying to live in them.

Michael Brown

I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Freida Pinto

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Sepp Blatter

We now have this item in our files.

James Billington

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages,

Gary Meyer

I thought the purchasing manager was a part of that give and take deal. Now, we've got another thing we've got to give and take on to get a commissioner's vote. It's not just one item now; it's two or three that he wants.

Jamshyd Godrej

In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.

Kelli Calloway

The dresses, shoes and purses can all be loaned and don't have to be donated. It doesn't have to be a permanent donation. Whoever wants to loan items can get everything back dry-cleaned.

Paul Parker

These items can become missiles and they can stop storm drainage,

Fred Reid

I've got a checklist with 3,200 items on it. At any time, 150 of them are burning.

Robert Atkinson

They are the No. 1 item in footwear. They wear them with jeans or skirts.

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Coco Chanel

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

E. M. Forster

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Drake Bell

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Donella Meadows

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

Dodie Smith

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andre Balazs

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Bob Dylan

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

Robert Duncan McNeill

A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

Katey Sagal

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Greg Behrendt

I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.

Carlos Ghosn

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

Dallas Willard

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

Suzy Bogguss

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Tiger Woods

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Pat Metheny

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

George Harrison

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

Huston Smith

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.