Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Wagner

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Mark Fields

Our approach is not thinking how much do we shave dealer margins. Our approach is that as we come up with our products going forward that they have a strong point of view in the marketplace, that they represent good value and good quality to customers so that dealers can earn a good (margin) on them.

Preston Sturges

The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

Jeff Freeman

Defensively, we're coming around. Offensively, we've really been working on our approach at the plate and hitting the ball really well.

Jonathan Nolan

I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

Carl Everett

Now in a leadership role on a young team, Everett will thrive and could approach the numbers he put up for Houston and Boston, meaning 30 home runs, 100 RBIs and double figure steals.

Chris Gabrieli

I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.

Caroline Fredrickson

These proposed amendments pose serious problems, in effect barring the courthouse door for many immigrants who deserve their day in court. Too many provisions of the various immigration bills paint immigrants as the new scapegoats. Congress must approach the issue in a manner that upholds our commitment to our core American values.

Tom Daschle

The stock dividend approach is dead on arrival,

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

Matthew Walker

These days, credit is too easy to come by. Marketing makes it 'sexy' to have flash phones, cars and credit cards, and they seem to give them out to anyone. Unless you understand your obligations and/or are disciplined, you can wind up with large bills that can cripple your cash flow.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Bob Rose

We've been telling our people for two years, get your bills paid off, get ready.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Diane Sawyer

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Ed Markey

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Mark Vitner

If we had an anti-business Congress that went after pension reform aggressively, it could have a devastating impact on Wall Street.

Tom Daschle

OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets.

Amar Singh

It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.

Melissa Cross

Corey Taylor from SLIPKNOT is a master. Keith Buckley from EVERY TIME I DIE .

David Thornton

Corey Simon can help us out a lot. He's a veteran to provide leadership and a big man who can plug things up in the middle, ... He'll help with the run defense and put pressure on the quarterback.

Louis Leterrier

Corey said, 'You know Louis, I won't be able to do it,' ... 'If Luc finds out, I'm gonna get fired and so are you.'

Marlen Ronten

Corey is our sparkplug. He's a good little shooter. When he went out, that was a turning point.

Brian Gray

We had a good laugh, ... Candace always made sure she was around when Corey needed her.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Michael Sheldon

So far, we haven't seen a major increase in core inflation, all we've seen is a sharp rise in energy prices. It seems logical that higher energy prices should start to feed through to higher inflation.

Evan Bayh

We need to mobilize our core constituency to vote, ... especially at a time of low turnout, when each vote is more valuable.

Dom Capers

Right now, if we had to play this week, Corey Bradford would be a question mark. He's getting an MRI today on his groin.

Marcus Conigliaro

Now it's win or go home. If you can't get up for something like this, you don't deserve to play the game. This (earning an at-large bid) will give us a spark and get us playing hard again.

Jaromir Jagr

Sometimes, things are very bad, but you keep fighting. I'm happy for him. He deserves it.

Jake Fisher

A little too much celebrating? Well, you deserve it, girlfriend. Get ready for raves. Everyone I talked to said the Pelican Park Parade of Homes has set the standard. You outdid yourself, Pinky.

Tim Williams

We did not deserve to be treated like this after all the work we did,

Ron Wilson

We deserved what we got in the second period.

Kyle Wanvig

We deserved that one. We hit three posts and missed two open nets. ... It didn't seem like it was meant to be tonight.

Sean Callow

Disaster had been priced into the peso, but they dodged the bullet. It's been a pretty remarkable turnaround. Arroyo deserves some of the credit.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Jason Gibson

We want a home playoff game for Columbus. The people here deserve it.

Bob Harms

This grant is essential for keeping the doors open and providing the many services we offer to consumers. We are very grateful to the Bremer Foundation.

John Shepperd

That should be the peak because there was a large increase in June a year ago, ... So that should imply that the rate in June in this year comes down. I think this will open the door to a reduction interest rates from the ECB.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Eric Brown

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Catherine Ponder

All financial doors are open; all financial channels are free, and endless bounty now comes to me.

Jane Austen

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Brian Eno

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Bob Dylan

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

Linda Johnson

Devastation doesn't just go away. There needs to be a period of time and a long-term relationship to have an effect on a crisis.

David Dye

The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.

Danton Cole

Saturday is just one of those games you have to forget about. You can't let that effect your performance in your next game. That's something we've been doing better of late.

Aaron Johnson

'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Brian Kenny

I've seen the effect of this on my daughter. I just know this is working at the ground floor level.

Tony Travers

It would be very surprising if the events of the last week had no effect on how people vote.

John Chamberlin

The state law neither has effective teeth nor good enforcement mechanism.

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Frank Aquila

Essentially, they (Guidant) are going to say ... yes there have been issues at Guidant, but do those issues give rise to a right on the part of Johnson & Johnson to walk away from the transaction?

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Tony Bennett

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Stephen King

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

John Walters

It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

George Washington

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.