Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Robert LeBlanc

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Shauna Dunlap

I would urge anyone who has information about this individual or about the robbery to contact us and prevent this individual from striking again.

Jack Kilmer

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

Tiffani Walker

I always expect a good performance from her. She is the type of player who is harder on herself than anyone else can be. If she's not doing as well as she feels she should be doing, she picks it up a notch.

Tom Curran

He walked on the field and was 6 inches taller than anyone there. My eyes lit up.

Robin Gibb

He could play a few chords on a keyboard and inspire a whole song. I don't think anyone could play a few notes as magically as Maurice could. Maurice is a part of the history of the Bee Gees, so the music will always have Maurice in it. We've lost Maurice, but we'll never lose his inspiration.

Peter Kelley

He did not indicate that anyone else was involved and my distinct impression was that he had done this on his own.

Mike Sullivan

I think it is terrific. I'm so happy for him because he has worked so hard to get himself back into a condition where he can compete at this level. That is a testament to the type of guy that he is. We are ecstatic that he is participating in our camp.

Jeremy Tate

He knows now he can compete with anyone.

Erick Jensen

He is the most technical wrestler on our team and should definitely compete for the state title.

Chris Douthit

Hannah has been our most consistent runner. Our girls, two through eight, have been shifting around in their finishes. If they can all go out and run as strongly as they can, they can compete with the top teams.

Kevin Keatts

He's just now realizing that you have to compete and get after it every day.

Jason Varitek

He seems upbeat and he's here so I'm not going to make a big issue out of it. I guarantee you, if he's here in uniform, he's going to compete because he's done nothing but compete throughout his career.

Lance Helgeson

Historically, they've gone after donations kind of hat in hand and they've realized that they've got to compete with these people.

Wendy Larry

I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very good George Washington team in the first half at all.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

James Collins

heroic levels of customer service, dependability, reliability, and giving people a lot of freedom to try different things that might work.

Kevin Rollins

It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.

Greg Frazier

We have to be flexible and responsive. We own and manage inventory at customer sites at 175 locations around the world. The customer only takes ownership when it pulls the item to its manufacturing line.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Howard Davidowitz

If you look at Helen of Troy's customer base, sales are generally strong. Wal-Mart sales are up, Target sales are up,

Jay Allen

Intentionally, we over-react to customers. That's why we've been so successful. If a customer tells us something, we not only react to it, but over-react to it. In this case, over-reacting was wrong.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Neil MacDonald

Her work ethic is an example to everybody. She puts in everyday at practice and is very difficult to ignore because of her work ethic.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

John Dawson

We've enjoyed good trading in relatively difficult conditions.

Buck Layne

We've done surveys from time to time, and it's just difficult to say because they need to know what positions you're referring to.

Angus Gluskie

We suspect there will still be a workable solution, but whether they can find it and find it in what's a fairly tight timeline now is difficult to say.

Alan Pardew

I'm very proud of the signings I've made. Teddy's an exception to my usual policy of signing younger players.

Amy Goodman

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Tom Davis

There's always exceptions to the rule, ... but I think when you're looking at guards that don't shoot a great percentage, a lot of it is confidence.

Rob Spear

The rivalry helps our recruiting. We're very competitive with them in most programs. With the exception of football.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

John Wooden

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Joe Williams

Fuel is kicking us probably worse than any other department, with the exception of the Police Department. It's simply something we've got to have to keep moving.

Tasneem Aslam

If any exception is made to India, it should also be extended to Pakistan.

Abe Simoff

I have a lot of experience, and it's true someone 55 will be working, but they will not be working as hard as someone who is 40. I am 80, and I'm working hard, but I'm the exception to the case.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Fadel Gheit

The only thing keeping prices artificially high is the potential for supply disruption, ... Fundamentally, prices should be at $20-to-$25.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen's got that very rare characteristic, high ears. This relates to being unusually quick at learning and understanding things.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Leo Tolstoy

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Joseph Campbell

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

Louisa May Alcott

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Jonah Hill

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Dennis Wiese

He has a wide level of support, but it doesn't seem to be very deep.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Emyr Parry

If you can do one centrifuge, you can do 164. If you can do 164, you probably do many more. That means you have the potential to do full-scale enrichment. If you can do enrichment up to 7 percent, you can do 80 percent. If you can do 80 percent, you can produce a bomb.

Kurt Knaus

Their certifications are suspended. That means they can't occupy those positions in any mines in Pennsylvania, but they could occupy for other positions. For example, they can be miners.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

Pat Riley

It was a ploy ... a way to get them to think bigger. It means something, but it's not what we are playing for.

Flip Saunders

It just means we can put different people out there and play different ways.

Skyler Green

It just means that much to some people down here.

Todd Bertuzzi

It means I've played a lot of games. It's nice but it's not something I want to stop at.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Darren Benitez

I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.

Guy Quaden

The first risk is the price of oil.

Rachel Barnard

You can't put a price on that kind of publicity. It's huge.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Michael Right

It's not a question of if, but when (the price will drop).

Deutsche Bank

Take profits after a very strong share price run.

Stephany Sofos

It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world.