Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Nick Fry

Since Honda acquired a 45% stake in the team at the beginning of this year, we have been finding ways to work even closer with our Honda colleagues, ... The Honda Institute is the perfect place for us to learn more about Honda and I'm sure that what will come out of this will be greater communication and understanding throughout the team.

Donna Dubinsky

I mean, they sort of refused to come to the table with any incremental capital. They would have loved for us to be acquired just get their money out and be gone.

Stewart Butterfield

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

Sean Payton

We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or not it's finished there, it's probably too early to say. Some of these guys we've been able to sign we're getting a good look at now and some have more experience than others.

Yang Yuanqing

Our results validate the expectations we have when we acquired the business and reinforced our convictions that we have a model for ongoing profitability,

Henry Bessemer

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Henrik Pontoppidan

I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.

Davis Eidahl

The one thing about our team that I like is how all the grades and ages blend together. They all support each other in practice and meets.

David Macaulay

I've never thought about the ages of my readers.

Louis Agassiz

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Janet Miller

We've got all ages here. We've got one-year-olds. We've got elderly folks as well.

Howard Schultz

China's emerging as one of the centers of the world, if not the center of the world, ... If my kids were of very young ages today, I would be asking them, and encouraging them, to learn Chinese.

Rachael Harris

Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

Colin Mitchell

Last season we took most people by surprise, ourselves included, ... and we were rightly very proud to come out on top. But this has definitely been a much tougher campaign because our opponents knew how potent we could be. We have concentrated on consistency rather than entertainment and we have amassed a group of players of varying ages who work well together.

Jim Murray

People have been getting ripped off for ages on these charges. The industry hasn't seen fit to lower them, so the government had to step in.

Cloris Leachman

People of all ages know every line of that movie, ... Everywhere I go people run up to me and either begin telling me lines from that movie or ask me to do lines as Frau Blucher.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Brad Bevis

We had a lot of question marks. I had no idea what to expect. So, I'm pretty pleased with finishing third.

Don Helvey

We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play the game and they've been taught that they need to stick with it until the last whistle.

Morgan Betscher

Our finishing was very nice. I think we got maybe four or five good opportunities and we scored on three, and that's as good a percentage as you're going to find. It was just getting more chances.

Ron Jirsa

We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.

Taro Aso

understands that it was not a recalling of the envoy but an announcement of the finishing of his duties.

Jack Edison

We had trouble starting and finishing in that quarter.

Kelly Witte

Finishing strong this weekend in the last game, we really put things together and looked like a team firing on all six cylinders. When we string it all together, we can get production at every position.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Ric Flair

Girls, you can't be the first, but you can be next.

Frank Oz

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Karen Falana

I would say 75 percent of my girls go on to college. And I would say 90 percent of that group goes on to play rugby in college.

Jim Clarke

She's had a very big impact on the team. The girls all look up to her. They all respect her. When she talks, they listen. ... She's having a positive impact on the younger players in the program.

Kathy McCartney

She does yeoman work all the time. The kid?s 5-foot-8 but she plays 6-foot-something girls every day.

Becky Cleary

Six girls are doing pretty well. It will be super exciting.

Fred Thacher

She's a big part of this team, and the girls really look up to her.

Brian Cahoon

She pitched well. We had the first two girls on in the top of the first and couldn't score them. She worked the strike zone up and down and had real good command.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Tom Peters

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Stephen Hawking

We won't know for a few years.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Ray Bradbury

From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

Michael Polanyi

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

Michael Polanyi

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

Socrates

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.