Famous Quotes & Sayings

John DiFucci

This is a financial acquisition primarily. Oracle is buying PeopleSoft for its maintenance stream.

Phil Noblitt

This has been happening, this sort of erosion of our buying power, if you will, for decades.

Steve Anderson

It's usually driven by who's buying whom, personalities and their influence with the board.

Janet Reno

Forcing PC manufacturers to take one Microsoft product as a condition of buying a monopoly product like Windows 95 is not only a violation of the court order but it's plain wrong,

Joel Naroff

Forget the decline from the June pace. What is important is the level of activity, and that is extraordinarily high, ... This market is showing no sign of weakness. With mortgage rates so low, it is no wonder that people are still out there buying homes. And with demand strong, construction is not going to fail.

James Norton

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.

John Pickett

There was tremendous buying momentum at the close, especially in the last 20 minutes. The shorts jumped in, the institutions ... It was a technical buyback. But it still was a very encouraging day as far as I am concerned. People are feeling more confident about this market now.

Bill Cheney

It reflects that people mostly still have their jobs, still have their money and people are still buying houses.

Kate Warne

This is the time to be buying integrated oils.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Reed Sorenson

I think the main challenge will be running 800 miles every weekend, but I'm looking forward to it. I think I needed to run both, just being a (Busch series) rookie last year. There'll be times when I wish I hadn't done it, but I needed to do it so I'll live with the decision.

Michael Carty

The challenge for stocks next week is going to be getting through more Iraq news.

Mark Fox

It's going to be a challenge because they (the Bulldogs) are very good. They're not just a one-man team. They've got a lot of guys making plays for them. They've put a lot of players around Millsap. That's one of the reasons they're a much-improved team.

Jake Plummer

It's going to be a big challenge for us. But I think we've stepped up already in the past and we know if we want to get a win, we are going to have to step up this time.

Kip Janvrin

It's going to be a good meet. We are going to see some of the better Division-II schools in the country. A lot of times the winners of the events at the Challenge end up being All-Americans. It's a big-time meet.

David Davies

They need to do what we should have done and put a plan in place. It's a challenge for (chief executive) David Collier and the ECB.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Frank Thompson

Rockefeller College is one of the premier places in the country to study politics, governance, policy, and public administration,

Henry Giroux

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Julia Stiles

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Kim Harrison

Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed.

Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Sandy Barbour

At the pro level, the mission is to win. At the college level, it's to experience success within the context of an educational environment. I don't have a problem going with a pro guy, but they need to understand the context under which they're operating.

Josh Radnor

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Terry Allmon

No, we didn't shoot well in the second half. But that was mostly North picking up the pressure. They're good. They're just a really good team with a super coach.

Roberto Bettega

Now is a different time, is a different game, a different business. We are very good team. And when I say team I mean the management of this club.

Reba McEntire

Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.