Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Greene

Any evaluation of Robertson would be fairly mixed. If you're in the White House, you wouldn't want Robertson on his TV program attacking you. On the other hand, you probably wouldn't want to be closely aligned with him.

B. F. Skinner

Strategic initiatives aligned behind McDonald?s Plan to Win are strengthening our competitive position and delivering positive results worldwide. Performance for the first quarter reflected more customer visits and enhanced profitability as we continued to connect with our customers and increase the relevance of our brand.

Steve Ballmer

These changes are designed to align our Business Groups in a way that will enhance decision-making and speed of execution, as well as help us continue to deliver the types of products and services our customers want most.

Jack Messman

This cost restructuring initiative is part of the comprehensive transformation of Novell's business that the management team has been designing and implementing over the past year. While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated workforce, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Elizabeth Warren

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

Tom Reed

We aligned with Co-Op Network because we wanted to increase our organizational and financial strength.

Ken Austin

At Marquis Jets, we carefully vet our partners to ensure that we only align ourselves with the finest brands, and Grand Isle Villas provides the comfort and service that our owners have come to expect.

Jeff Clarke

This newly created position reflects CA?s commitment to investing in the education of our employees, customers and partners. Brad?s experience makes him the right person to lead a global effort to better align our training and development programs with CA?s business goals. This linkage will enable CA to drive for greater performance and results in every area of the business.

Chris Aronhalt

We are very excited to announce this partnership and to align the event with such a favorable brand as Ford. The synergies with the communities are already very strong, and we look forward to unveiling our promotional programs that will excite people about the Tour and the Ford brand.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

Joe Girardi

Anything is possible, but we pretty much have the 25-man roster. We probably won't announce it until we leave, in case something comes up.

Taiji Yoshida

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it. Stringer is coming from the outside, and he only spends part of his time in Japan.

Taiji Yoshida

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it.

Lindsey Williams

The talks (with the union) are continuing and they have been constructive, but we don't have anything definitive to announce yet.

Edith Schaeffer

The thing about real life is that important events dont announce themselves. Trumpets dont blow, drums dont beat to let you know you are going to meet the most important person youve ever met, or read the most important thing you are ever going to read, or have the most important conversation you are ever going to have, or spend the most important week you are ever going to spend. Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it. You dont usually have a chance to get excited about that sort of thingahead of time!

Jim Curran

I've been a fan forever. My brother lives here, so when the bowl was announced I said, 'God is telling me to go to Phoenix.

Clive Woodward

I've announced a strong team with over 300 caps between them,

Erik Nielsen

I waited and waited for a year and a half for them to announce who won, ... Jim Jeffords' office had to get involved. But, once they did select me, things worked a lot more smoothly.

Richard Grasso

A separate entity would remove the cop on the beat, ... is not viewed as a profit drag, but ? as an investment in our brand and in building public confidence.

Greg Stuart

As consumers continue to embrace the Internet as an integral part of their everyday lives, marketers continue to acknowledge that interactive is a crucial medium to engage their customers and create deeper brand experiences.

Paul Gatza

As a brand extension, Zima Gold failed miserably.

Bill Douglas

Augusta is the perfect market for us to deliver our decentralized brand of banking,

Randy Bennett

As media proliferates, people have a variety of media choices, and competition for traditional media is pretty intense. Newspapers are seeing a slow, gradual decline in their readership. The question is, can a free newspaper without much of a brand enter the market? I think there are a lot of challenges for that sort of business model going forward.

Ulysses Yannas

No question this is a positive. Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

Ulysses Yannas

No question this is a positive, ... Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

John Powers

The more exposures you get, the more exposures to your brand -- the Seattle brand -- the more people come to discover what a great community we live in.

Group Inc

The more direct connection with the customer, the better, ... This is our extension of the Neiman-Marcus brand into this new world.

Donald Kettl

As catastrophic an event as 9/11 was, it was at least geographically bounded,

Steve Roukis

a one-time event but part of doing business, so if you split the difference, (profit per share) is 99 cents.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Philip Rivers

That's good. You have to play those (top) teams eventually anyway.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Tim Reilly

You see that technology migrates from hackers to innovative users and eventually to the mainstream.

Bob Howry

As a visiting player, it's motivating because you hear their fans get all excited and you want to quiet them down. And that's what we did tonight.

Hilery Walker

People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans.

Sean Coste

The seniors are excited about it. Our players are excited about it. We can finish with a win. It would be four in a row.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Jimmie Johnson

Race practice was really good, ... We weren't overly excited about our qualifying runs. So, we made some good adjustments and we will be fine.

Pat Green

I've probably played there about six times, over the last two years. It's one of my favorites -- I think it's incredible, ... I think that good music does well in New York City, and that's what I'm excited about.

Torey Lovullo

I've opened up in this stadium and it's been a tough go. We're excited to be going South and we're going as far South as we possibly can.

Eddy Curry

I understand the boos. It was one of the toughest things I had to do leaving here. I am also very excited about where I am now.

Jason Anderson

Things are going pretty well. I am excited about the numbers, we doubled our numbers (from last year). I am shocked how well the kids have taken to each other.

Paul Taylor

The slide of market share for GM and Ford has been a three-decade story.

Penny Circle

President Ford is responding to treatment and doing well.

Shirley Temple

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Saul Rubin

If that occurs with the F-150, Ford has a real problem,

Charles Pittman

I looked out the window and saw a flatbed tow truck near our Ford Escort. I went outside and asked, 'What are you doing?,' and was told that they were towing my car.

Gresham Barrett

not quite as good as my Ford pickup, but almost.

Dave Bristow

Ford fought and fought and fought but he passed away a little before 4 a.m..

Larry Clark

It's not worth it for Ford to risk one lawsuit. Water can get in and corrode wiring or the terminals on an airbag.

Thomas J. Stanley

There are about 300,000 neighborhoods in the United States, and more than half of them have at least one millionaire living there. Most millionaires drive American cars. Out of the top 30 or 40 makes and models, Ford is number one, with about 10 percent of the market share.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Amelie Mauresmo

It would be great (to end 2004 at number one), ... Hopefully, I can make it this week even though I know it will be very tough. She's been playing well also. I'm looking forward to the next match every day.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Sir Greenstock

The unity of the country, the forward progress of the country, would be lost.

Jerry Rice

That's it for me. I'm done and I'm looking forward to the next phase in my life now.

Dawn Seiler

You take two steps forward and one back.

Darryl Seibel

You move forward now to '05-06, and I think you're seeing a continuation of all of this, a continuation of the recognition of Winter Olympic athletes.

Kyle Seager

We're looking forward to that. When we get Jake, our lineup can make it tough for people.

Steve Harley

We're looking forward to seeing friends from past cookoffs. That's the fun part of it - seeing your friends from all over the country.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Alison Goldfrapp

People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,

Juan Rincon

People say stuff at the games. But most of the people, especially here in Minnesota, have been amazing.

Bill Butler

People say one tree doesn't make a difference, but really they do.

P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Rhys Ifans

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Ruben Blades

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Yani Tseng

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Jeff Lynne

I don't actually like touring.

George Carlin

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Jamaica Kincaid

A tourist is an ugly human being.

Louis Hinnant

In a tournament like this, you've got to get something in your system.

Narendra Modi

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.