Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooks Robinson

I talked to my dad about doing commercials for Flawless. I worked up a couple treatments and presented him with an overall concept of what it would look like.

Doug Summers

I think it (a steak house) is a restaurant concept that is not as well represented in the area.

Ben Jordan

We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.

Dave Pirner

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

John Spencer

Having been involved with the space tourism movement and industry since the beginning?in the early 1980s?I have seen the evolution of a concept from start to entering into a phase where several very smart billionaires are investing millions of their own dollars into it and the government and media takes it seriously. Space enterprise and tourism is real and growing.

Bill Guerin

We've given (the owners) well-thought-out proposals and ( Gary Bettman is) not willing to negotiate. What we've gotten back is just ridiculous. We presented a proposal with hundreds of pages of fine details. What we got back is six concepts and the longest one may have been 230 words and some were 30 words. You know what that is? That's no effort. (Bettman) is not being serious.

Nick Cannon

I actually created the concept and wrote the story and produced it, so it's kind of like my baby, going from my idea to a feature film.

Lien Chan

If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society.

Clayton Christensen

I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

Brad Hopkins

He's a disruptive force. But it's one of those things where you go into it knowing. You expect a challenge, and you have to be up for it.

Jim Hendry

He gets your offense going. He's a catalyst. He's a disruptive guy to the other team.

Jim Price

In the world of speed cooking, we're the think tank. We have a disruptive technology that the others don't have. It's life-changing.

Francis Costello

IM is inherently new to a lot of people, ... There is big gap between regular users and those who feel that it's disruptive and don't see how it will integrate.

Roger Fox

These things are extremely disruptive to the students, the teachers and the community. This is a small town. I just want this to go away.

Katie Meier

They were very disruptive to our offensive sets. I think we had some shots we could've hit, but they were very physical with Tamara.

Dale Hunter

They have a good team. They are a different team. The trades they made have worked out for them. Everyone forgets that these are young kids and what happened before was very disruptive for them. What they needed to do is move on. That's what life is all about, moving on. They've done it.

Mike Thibault

They're disruptive (defensively), but by this point in the series, we should be able to better handle it.

Roy Lind

It was the least disruptive of any options we could think of.

William Egan

I would say that the figures for 2003 are an improvement over the previous years, the first steps in an emerging growth cycle.

Karen Anderson

There are so many emerging technologies out there that we should take a look at and we will. It's not something we can rush into. It's going to be a five- or 10-year process.

Ricardo Khan

The fewer role models you have, the harder it will be for you to imagine you could do it, too. My hope is that Genesis supports not just those emerging writers but that it's making a statement that writing is important, that the imagination being channeled to something on the page is possible.

Colin Morton

The emerging markets are where Europe was five to seven years ago.

Michael Campbell

This partnership...truly allows theatre owners to use the Internet and other emerging technologies to reach out to our customers.

Phil Kendall

There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed phenomenal levels of subscriber growth. In particular, Russia, India and Indonesia saw major growth in new users in 2005, up 40-50 percent over 2004 levels.

Kenton Keith

It is unlikely, we think, that they will be able to reorganize and pose a threat to what we hope will be an emerging political situation.

Robert Lynch

There's been a lot of volatility in emerging markets but in the majors, very little.

Henry Samueli

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Ray Arvidson

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

Ken Tower

What would make me more optimistic is if there was evidence that money on the sidelines is being put to work. But I'm not convinced.

Michael Shermer

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

David Scott

He's a liar, in the view of the commissioner, except when it comes to his evidence about what he and Mr. Pelletier did together.

Mark Schneider

It is actually one of the really strong pieces of evidence in the report that we should be celebrating.

Wesley Clark

I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Brian Doyle

There is more than enough evidence that we have good security these issues were addressed quickly and efficiently.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Michael Showalter

Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

John Devine

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs,

Eric Holder

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

Paul Feig

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Scott Reed

There's no question that since Katrina, there have been some missteps that have shaped the president's inability to get a message out. These are no one person's fault. But they happened. And now it's time to get back on the offensive.

Todd Park

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

Henry McKinnell

This is an important victory not only for Pfizer but for all innovators pursuing high-risk medical discoveries.

Ludwig von Mises

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Angela Ruggiero

Cammi is USA Hockey, really. Every single player on our roster has learned something from Cammi Granato and she'll leave that legacy whether she's here or not.

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Alan Levenson

I think they have sent a message that I'm surprised that they wanted to send to the market. I think the markets are seeing the neutral directive and they are saying, 'Well, they're done,' which I think is wrong.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

David Pursell

The markets will treat it like it's Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger.

Tim Evans

The markets are bracing for Thursday's DOE reports, with traders cringing since the recent (supply) trends have been bearish.

Michael Allen

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

Frank Lesh

It's nothing more than a psychological spot; it's like 10,000 on the Dow. In reality, the markets themselves don't see anything special about that $50 level.

John Felmy

Right now, the short-term markets are going a little crazy. If there is little damage, they can reverse themselves.

Martin Winterkorn

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

John Nicks

I think it was obvious the standard of skating tonight was not particularly good.

Yves Brun

There are obvious applications since this adhesive works on wet surfaces. One possibility would be as a biodegradable surgical adhesive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Fred Miller

I think they will target at least one of us.

Rob Bell

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Saul Alinsky

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

Tori Spelling

I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.

Robert Langer

You could use this to target tumor cells.

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

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

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

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.

Robert Rodriguez

I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.