Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

William Goldman

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

John Martin

As far as the extent of residential housing (that should go downtown), we missed the boat in 1997. The view taken since 1997, to push forward with the extent of housing that the city has done, has been absolutely correct and it'll be proved in the long run.

E. O. Wilson

As hitters, we got dominated. This is lucky. (Clemens) absolutely shoved it down our throats. That's why you give all the credit to Kip for keeping it close.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

Graham Shear

Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as he remains entirely dissatisfied with the result.

Larry Miller

As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed. One thing I always know about Jerry, he is absolutely trustworthy and always doing the best that he can.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

Rich Becker

As a team, we played great defense. We are absolutely a defensive-minded team.

Brian Billick

Ray takes a beating inside there. Sometimes, Ray watches and observes and is ready to go. That's what we hope will be the case.

Lillian Berlin

People don't want to face the facts. It's upsetting, but I'm not going to change for it. I'm going to keep beating down the wall until it sinks into people's heads. But keep it fun, or you become what you're preaching against.

Ray Stevenson

Of course, your best method for pleasing a woman is the warm beating heart of an enemy. I mean, women will say they don't like it, but they do.

Jimmy Kimmel

Oh, great, ... Three people beating me up. Maybe it isn't such a great idea.

Christie Martens

After the first round, we were beating Texas on their home course.

Jack Rentko

Defense wins games, and our kids came out with great intensity and we did everything we were supposed to do. I really thought that with the young team we played against, we really put a beating on them early.

Kurt King

Dell looks like a momentum play and is ready to get back on its old path of meeting or beating estimates.

Giri Cherukuri

Companies are meeting expectations, but they are not beating expectations by a great amount, and I think that's part of the indecision today.

Alana Towns

Coach (Rachel Lawson) wants us to take all of the intensity we had at the beginning of the season when we were beating quality teams and carry that into conference play.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

David Kerr

Buyers are looking for a deal. It does not necessarily mean there are any deals out there. A well-priced house still sells at a premium even in a transitional market.

John Silvia

Home buyers need something visible on-screen to surprise them, ... If it's the dollar gradually losing another 10 percent or mortgage rates creeping up 1 percentage point, that's not going to do it.

Piers Handling

Which is why they're in the large venues like the Ryerson and the Elgin. The press screenings are actually happening after their world premiere so the key press, the key buyers are in those public screenings and that is important.

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

Richard Cripps

I think it's more a result of a fear of buyers being left behind.

Michael Marks

All of those buyers are looking to the West Coast. East Coast demand could make prices here go up, but you've got to understand that we've never experienced anything so devastating. It's hard to know how the market is going to react.

Walter Molony

It's not like all of the buyers fell off a cliff. There are still people in the market during this time, just fewer. Some people think it's a great time to buy or sell.

John Karevoll

There isn't a sense of urgency in the market. Buyers don't feel they need to stretch (finances) the way they felt before.

Derek Johnson

A new qualification would reinforce the idea that catering in care homes is an important issue.

John Montgomery

An EV is the perfect second car for Port Townsend.

Geno Auriemma

Any time like you have a really good point guard like they do, you have a chance to have a really good team. Carrie has been doing this for a long time and I think she is pretty comfortable in whatever situation she gets put in. She has a really good group of players that are pretty versatile.

Gary Larkins

Any time Brunswick High plays Glynn Academy, it's going to be a rivalry game. I don't care what the sport, I don't care what the past records are ... it doesn't matter.

Agnes Garvin

As far as the memory cards are concerned, there's no major problems there. It's just a matter of people getting used to something new.

Avram Chomsky

ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

Brian Barnhart

As difficult as we struggle to put a lot of cars on the race track, the ones that we do have are first-rate, high-quality teams and our product works well for a very entertaining race as well as a reliable and safe race.

Freeman Thomas

A show car like this is for forecasting, to see how the public reacts.

Mark Calcavecchia

A short hitter has got no chance unless he has a career week with his putter. Only a few guys can win here now ? we all know who they are.

Jack Roush

Looking back, this is the cleanest we've ever run at Richmond.

Rudi Giuliani

Any help that he needs. This is a very important election. If he wants me to do a commercial for him, I'll do a commercial for him. And if he wants me to do one for his opponent, I'll do one for his opponent. If that helps more, you never know!

Cole Mueller

As for commercial or independent films, that's not even a concern at this point.

Mike Birbiglia

As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.

Jude Hagin

That was a big-budget commercial and won all kinds of awards.

Jason Fuchs

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

Jack Shaw

reacts to commercial economics but not to safety.

Issey Miyake

Personal imagination is not for commercial reason but to make nice feeling.

Cameron Crowe

Orlando was the first guy I thought of because we'd done a commercial together and I just liked him -- every take was different.

John Restrepo

Demand for office space exceeded completions by 79 percent during the third quarter. Office users want to work near where they live, which is why we're seeing more commercial development near growing residential areas, like the southwest.

Tim Sheldon

Offensively, we're working. We have a team concept going. We're working hard. They surprised me a little bit. I thought this was going to be a struggle, especially early on and it's cold. But they surprised me pleasantly.

Keni Thomas

Some (songs) were happy. Some were sad. Some were pretty motivational and some were just rockin'. It was a concept record, because we knew that you wouldn't be able to do this for the rest of your career.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

David Soul

I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

James Gilmore

The whole concept is to create a web of interaction, so the people in Iowa know what the people in Louisiana are doing.

Bill Harris

The whole concept is taking one master program that you're able to push down the pipeline with keystrokes, as opposed to dubbing tapes or shipping them out in boxes. This was a smart evolutionary step for us.

Chris Lewis

The whole concept is just to give (children) activities, let 'em go wild.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

Carolayne Holley

At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then they're just sitting around for an hour without any customers while the brides and their guests watch the show.

Larry Ellison

A year from now, we'll have over 4,000 customers live on the e-business suite.

John Richardson

As long as it's done in a sympathetic nature it's for the best. It will provide customers for everyone and keep the Old Town alive.

Ron Johnson

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

David Parker

Profits outside of Florida were good. Inside they were pressured. We were expecting the utility to do a little better, but that's what happens when you have three-quarters of your customers out for a week or two.

Tom Barrett

.Pro domain names with free Web hosting make a perfect gift for the holidays. Every professional serious about marketing themselves online should have a .pro Internet address. There is no better way on the Internet of communicating to your customers that you are a pro.

Larry Pratt

Our 'Texas Family Home Policy' will offer our customers a tailored policy to fit their specific insurance needs. Just like no two families are alike, no two families have the exact same insurance needs.

John Fitzpatrick

Our dealers were telling us, 'We can sell a luxury truck, you just have to work on your execution,' ... We went back to the customers to research it further, and it turned out the dealers were spot on.

Bill Cummings

Our customers will receive a great Starbucks experience.

John Walsh

As far as tourist season, we plan our projects to minimize impact ... because you're driving 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles a day through our office,

Jim Raper

Our driving force is to do an extremely high-quality job for the lowest possible price. Ultimately, that saves our taxpayers money.

Terry Piazza

People don't realize it because he's small, but Cory has really been driving the ball. People may underestimate his ability. He's a strong kid.

Larry Starkey

People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it isn't.

Matt Hartwig

Oil has set a record high. We're hitting the driving season and Americans are showing no signs of letting up their driving habits.

Richard Friend

And that won't be easy on this tight driving track.

Georg Hackl

The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the seeded group at the Olympics.

Chris Petersen

I've never been so scared driving in my entire life.

James White

After a while, you keep driving to the hole and doing things and you don't get no fouls called, what's the point? Eventually you just settle and shoot jump shots because you're going to the hole and you don't get fouls called, even though you're getting fouled.

John Harwood

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

Tara Wall

African-Americans understand that now is an opportunity to embrace compassionate conservative policies that will move us forward and empower the victims of Hurricane Katrina to recover and rebuild their lives in a greater way.

The Grimm

Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Don Allison

The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.

Eric Maskin

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

Blaise Pascal

By thought I embrace the universe.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Rodney Lovell

Embrace the negative, for within its crusty shell lies a pearl waiting to be discovered.

Adoniram Judson

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Richard Fisher

So this leaves a third option: better calibrating government spending programs,

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Zach Hall

Scientists. What will not stop this from happening is government oversight.

Rigoberto Medina

Protests have halted while government officials meet with local leaders to look for a solution.

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Edil Baisalov

Quite a lot of high placed government officials wish to limit and restrict NGOs funded from abroad.

George Speight

There will never ever be a government led by an Indian, ever in Fiji.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Jeff Mortimer

The surprise of the quarter was really the strength of small-cap market when most pundits were saying it's time to switch to large-cap. Large-cap was positive for the quarter, but the real money was made in small caps.

Arthur Levitt

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Mark Urman

The movie was going to be a big hit. Of course, that was a perfect illustration of what market research does. It tells you what you don't need to know and is often very misleading.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Richard Herring

So they have to be outwardly directed. And the North American market is the richest market, so its not too surprising that they are making acquisitions here.

Felix Kulov

Russian investors? presence in the Kyrgyz market is vital

Kenneth Sheinberg

Right now the trend is up but we're getting very overbought. The market is susceptible to any pullback.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.