Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Burnham

I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,

Richard Preston

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Mike McGuire

The key is how many Amazon customers already use existing online services.

Johannes Lehmann

The knowledge we can gain from studying the Amazonian dark earths, found throughout the Amazon River region, not only teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate.

J. A. Konrath

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

Sean Badding

Amazon would serve itself well by having an open platform because that typically gets you to the sweet spot of the market: the masses. It is also probably a profitable venture to go into a subscription model, which gives customers more peace of mind to download without looking at how many music titles they are downloading.

Charles Pradilla

Amazon has perhaps the best franchise in the sector and they are having trouble meeting revenues estimates ... and that hurts the entire tech sector.

Dan Geiman

Amazon has been consistently beating sales and earnings estimates and the stock should respond to overall macroeconomic trends.

William Armstrong

Amazon had to build its name up from scratch, ... Barnes and Noble, on the other hand, is very well known. It's obviously much bigger and has greater financial resources.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Mike Schmidli

We took up the entire space (of the old Grand Wayne Center). All the side rooms, every inch of it. So now we're all in one area. So much nicer and it's great.

Mike Wallace

What you're saying is that you were a living steroids experiment for your entire career,

Wayne Butler

I think that, with six fish, we?re going to make it through the entire summer without a problem. But whether we make it all the way through (this year)? I?d say we have a 40-60 chance.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Ralph Acampora

In technology, I think I would go with the big ones. I'd go with IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ). That would be my first pick in the technology area.

Stanley Nabi

All of these things are going to converge, forcing strategists to raise estimates for this year and next year. That will make valuations look more reasonable.

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Steve Kelley

He saved this franchise really. I think this franchise would be in L.A now if it weren't for him.

Larry Dierker

In my opinion, he's the only one in this franchise who should have a retired number.

Larry Brown

I hope I can make a difference. I'm going to try my hardest to make this franchise proud of the team we put out there.

Sean Burke

I have the utmost respect for everything he did on the ice and everything he went through. And he's probably a guy responsible for saving a franchise in Pittsburgh. Just an incredible career.

George Tsamis

I know what these three guys can do. They have been key contributors to this franchise in the past.

Ron Artest

I made myself into a franchise player there, but I kind of sneaked up on them.

Mia Bloom

The old centralized al-Qaeda is gone. It's become more like a franchise operation.

Donnie Nelson

Michael has played a huge role in rebuilding this franchise and taking it to where it is today.

Brian O'Rourke

I can't think of another franchise that has taken this approach. This is a broad-based marketing push to do everything all at once. The TV show will support the video game and the video game will support the TV show.

Joe Gibbs

Any time you don't play special teams, it hurts you. You've got to be a legit starter if you're going to do that.

Joel Hefley

Any time you have anything that smacks of scandal, it hurts all of us,

Randy Sanders

It's what we live and what we do. When you're not successful, it hurts ... hurts a lot.

Gary Giancola

They didn't outwork us, they didn't outplay us. That's what hurts so much.

Matt Mantei

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Right now it hurts - bad.

Larry Gregory

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

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Donna Newman

It's not a confidential attorney-client meeting. It's a meeting to wave at your client.

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.

Hayley Wickenheiser

It's our first meeting since the worlds, so it will be interesting to see what they look like, and how we look as well.

Charles Dickens

It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.

Robin Cook

The watchword for our meeting will be resolve,

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Robert M. Pirsig

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Zhang Ziyi

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Wen Ho Lee

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files

Mark Boal

I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.

Pete Vasil

I thought there were opportunities for us, but we had trouble finishing.

Ned Van

I think it was just going to be more trouble than they had anticipated.

Wayne Dyer

It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.

Tony Yayo

You know I'm always in trouble.

Carol Moore

I'm going to be in trouble when they go.

Jennifer Wilbanks

I'm doing well. I need to get back to work. I don't want to get into trouble.

John Brunner

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

Orson Welles

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Ellen Glasgow

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.