Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Renouard

I would say no company has a lot of visibility past a couple of quarters all you can have is a framework. No question that going out a couple of years is really hard to do, and the level of certainty you can predict two years from now is lower than even what you can predict in the current quarter.

Wayne Cornelius

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Bertrand Russel

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Winston Churchill

It is not given to the cleverest and the most calculating of mortals to know with certainty what is their interest. Yet it is given to quite a lot of simple folk to know everyday what is their duty

John Treanor

I don't know that we have any certainty about what's going to happen in the future.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Pete Nicholas

Our $80 per share offer for Guidant is compelling. We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Tim Barnett

Climate warming is a certainty for our future and ... the long-term prognosis is clear and very dire.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Sarah Reed

Knowing this is critical because in that relaxed setting of a meal, the true personality of a person comes out. Employers need to know how the person handles themselves in a social situation. Do they let their hair down too much? Will they represent the company well with a client?

Anthony Davis

KeyCorp's management team has made much progress over the last three years in refocusing the company on profitable revenue growth.

Alexander Paris

I would not want to see them sell at this price, ... I would want to see them get the company turned around then look at if you want to go private.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Simon Wolfson

I think it is a sad day for the company and we are going to miss him. But, typically of him, he has planned his own succession immaculately. We will have a dinner and a nice party for him.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Having a full-blown company is just something that I don't have the time for now, ... I was just starting to feel really depleted, and the kids are getting older and the demands are different now.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Amber Bacon

Knowing we only have eight players, we have to take it up a couple of notches. But I think that will help the team a little more. We just have to fight through our (losing) streak and keep our energy high.

John Hepperle

Kim pitched well. They started to getting to her later in the game, and we had an error in the third inning. If we can get out of the inning without an error, we give up maybe a couple runs instead of five.

Jeff Woods

Kirsten definitely was a hard worker and team leader. We didn't do much recruiting my first couple of years here and she helped keep the team together.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Larry Beinfest

I wouldn't rule anything out. But we've done that a couple of years and it really ties up your roster. That was with a very set team. It didn't hurt us, but it really limits your options on the bench.

Geoff Smith

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change. His general philosophy is, if we don't get a couple things better, we're going to have a couple drivers miss out on the Chase.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

Dick Cheney

has nothing at all to do with awarding these contracts, the bidding process or the current work orders.

Kenneth Miller

Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Saifur Rahman

We are going to reduce current ADP for lack of the revenue resources.

Richard Cripps

Good earning growth. Next year, their earnings will be about $1.90 (per share). That's just 10 times this year's current stock price.

Dominique Holmes

I was kind of upset (about not being able to play much). I tried so hard to play on it, but I couldn't. That was disappointing to me.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Bruce Merrill

John is seen as a hard worker. He's really a low-key person. He's not a person that's been very controversial with issues. He's not a person you hear about in the media very often.

Lindy Ruff

J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and harder, get him involved in more stuff.

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Eddie Hoffman

I wouldn't be racing without them. At least not at this level or this often.

Gene Contino

I would say so. I don't think we're quite at that level yet but it's come along.

Kurt Browning

Just watching as a kid, I never thought I would reach this level so soon and I would actually get to do this stuff.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

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.

Tommy Bowden

He's a tough guy. He's a mean guy. Whether those are appropriate words to say, I don't know. But again, that's how the game's played, and there's a level we need to play with defensively we haven't reached yet in those aspects.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

Morgan Stanley

In our opinion, the strategic rationale is sound and price paid is lower than what we would have anticipated.

Dan Houston

Individuals who are targeting a lower replacement ratio will see a significant reduction in their standard of living.

Donald Parker

If not, another suggestion that has been made is to lower the speed limit.

Karen Ignagni

In many cases, the plans have negotiated lower rates than Medicaid with pharmaceutical companies.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Brandon Roy

I was like, 'Does he just randomly walk around? They were like, 'Yeah, but not today, it's past his bedtime.

Billy Gillispie

I wouldn't put anything past this team right here.

Chemi Shalev

I think in the past week we have already reached new lows.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

Hannes Smarason

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Agost Benard

have tended to be slow, reactive, and incremental over the past year.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Willie Mitchell

I thought we've played pretty well the past two games, but we haven't been rewarded for it. We need to find a way to win these types of games.

Danton Cole

I thought we played well. We just couldn't get that second one past Martin. There are some things we can do better (Saturday) and we will.

Warren Buffett

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

Yogi Berra

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Michael Carey

I haven't seen an offer, but I think I can safely predict it will be rejected.

Steve Bartlett

I predict it's going to be 70 (degrees) and sunny.

Kaiser Chiefs

I Predict A Riot / Sink That Ship

James Bell

You can't predict what's going to happen. We'll take it a day at a time and see what happens.

Sam Cowart

It's tough to predict how something is going to turn out,

Jimmy Johnson

I want to know who is going to predict us to be healthy? Who's going to be the weak team in the Pac-10 this year? It's going to be tough to find one.

Jimmy Johnson

I want to know who is going to predict us to be healthy? ... Who's going to be the weak team in the Pac-10 this year? It's going to be tough to find one.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Merv Griffin

I tell everybody that I’m a quatre-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

Martina Hingis

I feel a quarter Indian.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Darrell Bricker

Harper is going to win on Monday, there's no question about that.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

Kevin Doll

(Gonzalez) is somebody we want to question in this shooting. But it's still under investigation who the shooter is.

Phil Garner

His shoulder is impaired, there's no question about that from anybody. But definitely, you can make too much of what you see or don't see today.

Todd Wilkinson

His versatility is unmatched. No question we wouldn't be where we are without him.

Donald Trott

I think it's going to be very, very good. The question is, is it very, very good, or is it hey, this is just super-great hall-of-fame good?

Scott Hannan

We've got to salvage this trip. We have to win, no question about it.

Harvey Mackay

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

Margaret Cho

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Albert Einstein

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

David Caruso

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

Michel Foucault

Visibility is a trap.

Jean Cocteau

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

J. Michael Straczynski

I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.