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.

Larry Harris

As Cotton turns around, he hollers, 'No!' and sort of brings his arms up and that's when she shot him.

Suliman Baldo

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Matt Maldre

Rolling up your sleeves is like wearing capris on your arms

Ryan Toohey

It would be like competing with one arm tied behind our back.

Kim Clijsters

I've been happy with how I've played all summer. It took a while to get my rhythm since I hadn't been on Armstrong Stadium court in quite some time.

Cesar Izturis

That's more than I threw before I got hurt. I think my arm will be better than it was before.

Christopher Jackson

That's like going into a fight with one arm already tied behind your back, and we're getting away from that. No single intelligence discipline or source has all the answers. It has to be brought together with as many sources and capabilities as possible.

Dusty Baker

You would think over the course of a winter -- actually three winters, two winters -- that guys would come back strong and healthy, which hasn't been the case. Woody had a little setback with his knee, but his arm is doing well. He's throwing the ball great. Hopefully, Woody will be ready soon. How soon we don't know. We have Wade Miller coming on pretty strong. We just have to pull our belts a little tighter and do what we have to do.

Sharon Moore

We're hanging in there taking one day at a time you know it's still hard I think about him all the time his smile and teasing me and sitting on my arm telling him to move.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

David Palmer

I sense that, hopefully, the worst is behind us if we focus on a principal search recognizing that we need to have a collaborative process taking away lessons learned. That's a significant part of the healing process.

Dan Garofano

This is his first year starting, his first year being behind the plate, but he's been great.

David Slipy

This is not about liking or not liking any council decision. This is about government doing business behind closed doors or over the telephone. They can't create a consensus and come to a meeting with the decisions made.

Maria Mutola

This is something special, But it was tough, definitely not the way I wanted it to be. It was too risky to come from behind so I went into the lead from the start. Now I am full of new motivation for my career.

Alexander Cockburn

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Margaret Heffernan

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Danny Sullivan

We often search for private things that we may prefer not be seen by others, even if the possibility is fairly remote. At minimum, police your own desktop by clearing history. That's the most vulnerable part, I'd say.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

Bobby Ross

Zac is turning some difficult plays into big plays.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Karen Lee

Curtis had been hospitalized on and off for the past six months. Nine months ago his right leg was amputated. Living as a quadriplegic was an extremely difficult experience -- but he kept going.

Sha Zukang

Controlling tobacco is a long-term, difficult and complicated public health task, it is also a social and economic issue that needs a strong policy.

David Beard

Even for a professional, it's difficult to get your hands around the information. It's difficult for everyone.

Paul Chan

Even though the economy is doing well, for the low-skilled life is difficult as Hong Kong transforms to a more high-value-added economy.

Michael Sheen

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

Will Ferrell

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

Ray Willis

We just had to get a rhythm. They settled themselves down.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Jennifer Miller

At first it was very nerve-wracking but we settled down and it was such a blast.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.