Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Dennis

We want to be the best and the only way of achieving this objective is by attracting the best people.

Aldous Huxley

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Amity Shlaes

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

Mike Wright

Those were just little setbacks that didn't stop me from achieving my goal,

Gary Orfield

We have had a quarter century of tuition going up faster than family income. And we've had completely inadequate increases in the Pell grant. Many states and institutions are shifting from need-based aid to aid based on test scores. At the same time, college has become much more essential for achieving middle-class status in the U.S.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

Thomas Shannon

The degree to which there is division in the Americas, the degree to which there are people who want to opt out of that common consensus, it lessens the chances of successfully achieving the kind of agenda that we have identified.

Bill Reinsch

Time and time again we have seen that unilateral economic sanctions by the United States do not work. Unilateral measures -- including some bills pending in the U.S. Congress -- would harm relations with our allies without achieving the results we all desire.

Hans Troedsson

While we have made impressive efforts at achieving results to tackle this epidemic ... we seem to be leaving some people behind. If there were some tendency that we leave the children behind in these global efforts, that would not only be unfortunate, it would be unacceptable.

Bill Bradley

Let me assure you, you are going to be all right.

Mark Warner

No case has been more troubling, ... Rest assured there is no case I have spent more time thinking about, praying about and reflecting on than this case.

Bruce Bochy

He's done a terrific job for us, ... I assured him it had nothing to do with the game.

Ivan Johnson

The concept was not a concept that Cox created. We were assured this was fine. Certainly we're big boys, and we check out things. At this point, we're comfortable that no laws were broken.

Jim Manley

It's been off the radar screen, but I can assure you it will be front and center very soon.

Emraan Hashmi

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Al Yankovic

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Michael Franc

There is a sense this year that anything is possible, that they have the rapt attention of the leadership.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are some people who are close to him that say that he is just starving for attention and that's the way he gets attention. Other people said, look he's not working and he just feels like he should maybe get involved in politics, ... Instead, I just think that maybe he is jealous that I did jump in. I find it silly, because I respect his work.

David Law

Common sense tells you that with inexperienced drivers on the road, anything we can do to keep their attention on the roadway is beneficial for all of us,

Maurice Cheeks

Coming into a building like this, playing a very good basketball team like this, you know if you get up 20 points they're going to make a run. They had a chance at the end. But our attention to detail was big, from the first minute of the game to the last minute.

Richard Feinberg

Conceptually, it is a wonderful strategy. That's a neglected market. People have been paying attention to the echo boomers and not to the middle woman. That's your Chico's women, and there are a lot of them, and they have the money to spend.

James Ray

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

Craig Jackson

Documented celebrity cars always fetch a great deal of attention at our auctions. And when they're two of the most phenomenal sports cars in the world, they attract even more attention. Dr. Phil certainly had an eye for quality and rarity when he purchased these two beauties.

Jon Huntsman

It was tough to keep the tears back, quite frankly. As you pin the award on, you salute them shake their hands.

Anil Kapoor

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Bruce Parker

It is humbling and I am very proud to have earned this honor. It may sound trite, but there is no question that this is an award that is in large part due to the great staff and outstanding student-athletes that I am fortunate to work with here at Carroll College.

Gene Chizik

I just know what an awesome feeling it is for him. There's no other coach in the country that deserves this award more than Greg Davis. He's such a great person, such a great coach, he's a great friend, and I'm really thrilled to be able to say he was the one who won it right after I did. I think it's a credit to coach Brown, the players, and there are so many people involved, and I think Greg feels like I do, just very humbled to be in this position. It couldn't happen to a better guy.

Richie Sexson

It's not an award you want to win more than once.

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Dave Robbins

We're not at all embarrassed to be the second-best team in the country. The second-place awards were in our locker room, and I told our players they might feel like they don't want them now, but when they're old and gray, they'll be very proud they were the second-best team in the country.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Michael Moore

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

Mark Fields

A decision to end production at a plant is not an easy one, and I'm deeply mindful of the impact this decision has on Ford employees, families and communities. Unfortunately, these are necessary steps we must take to move the business forward.

John Clare

A free ISP does not create a business you can float. It is really e-commerce that can drive a business. We have to turn these customers into revenue.

John Clare

A free ISP does not create a business you can float, ... It is really e-commerce that can drive a business. We have to turn these customers into revenue.

Mary Burke

Administrative rules that meet the objective of the agency, while not being overly burdensome to small business, are key to the economic growth and prosperity of Wisconsin's economy.

James Costos

A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Mack Strong

It was very surreal. I came home one day and she said, 'You're moving.' I said, 'No, we're not moving.' Then about a day later I call a call from a coach and he said, 'Pack your bags.' That was a weird time in our history.

Juliette Lewis

It was traumatic and lovely. My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

Juliette Lewis

It was traumatic and lovely, ... My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

John Hodgson

What we're trying to do is establish a holiday tradition downtown, sort of like Westlake Center in Seattle.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Mark Lanier

This lawyer didn't make marketing and Merck's deceptions on science the center of the case, ... And that was a mistake because that's the most compelling part.

Adam Burish

They're going to support us and that place is going to be packed every night, I'm sure of it. They're going to be loud, they're going to be screaming. It's going to be a mini-Kohl Center feeling that we're going to have.

Robert Kerr

They're looking for anything that sticks out. It could be someone driving too slow, or driving too fast, ... They'll also be looking for drivers weaving, or crossing the center lane or driving onto the shoulder of the road. Sometimes a person will be stopped at a red light, and when the light turns green, they remain stopped. Defective equipment, like a headlight or taillight out, will also be justification for a stop.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Dan Ryan

This really is a new application driven by the customer base.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Judy Greer

He said please open up the register now, I don't want to hurt you. I was more worried about my customer than myself and I wasn't scared. I saw that he had like a little pen knife.

Steve Todd

You can only be in so many places so often. Mystery shopping is a great way to get organized feedback on ticket times, food quality, customer perception of value and all the service points you're trying to hit.

Howard Rubel

The ultimate customer is the flying public, and as long as you have more demand for seats than you do supply of seats, then the production of jetliners is going to go up.

Bob Parsons

It's exciting to know that the customers who made us No. 1 in domains have stayed with us for their hosting needs,

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Cristy McKinney

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

Carlos Marin

I can tell you I am very happy because this was one of my goals in life. I have been here so long, and I wanted to one day do this.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Swami Vivekananda

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Mike Birbiglia

I have a following, but it's small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they're the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Fred Phillips

It shows what we are doing is working. We are meeting our goals, which is very exciting.

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Jodi Picoult

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

For all of my life I have needed more.

Natalie Rule

It serves quite a big need to put people in the right location, people needed to rebuild.

Matt Schmelzer

A lot of wins. Every time we needed a basket, she scored a basket.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Jimmy Williams

We got started yesterday with a power cleaner. You can see we blasted out three previous coats.

Tim Taylor

You get a power play and you think, 'We get one here, the door's shut. But the way things are going for us, we will take the two points.

Jeff Bower

There's not going to be power here for another week or so. We've got to get them out of here.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Grover Cleveland

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Aaron Lowe

Being (here) has been wonderful. It's very rewarding after all of this time.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

John Milton

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

Kevin Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

Marianne Williamson

Family... a group experience of love and support.

J. Reuben Clark

May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution, a living faith in its inspired origin, that we may always be found among those who shall support it to the last breath.

Mandi Lyon

I'm very overwhelmed, but very thankful for all the support.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Carly Fiorina

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

Moby

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.