Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gould

I'd check that for accuracy because I think that's untrue.

John Curtin

The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scoring these tests are dealing with volumes of tests that they have not experienced before, as the testing program in essence doubles this spring across the country. It's a high-stakes test, and accuracy is so important.

Sam Thurman

The entire flight team is ecstatic about the degree of accuracy that we believe we have achieved. It doesn't get much better than this.

Stuart Roy

You can safely predict, with more accuracy than any TV weatherman, that the first blizzard of the year will be the blizzard of gas price legislation introduced this September when Congress comes back to town.

Darrel Good

The forecasting comparisons for soybeans were somewhat sensitive to the measure of forecast accuracy considered. One measure showed that private market forecasts were more accurate than USDA forecasts for August regardless of the time period considered. Another measure showed just the opposite.

Leonard Ryan

The HMDA RELIEF interface for E3 is a joint effort to provide E3 customers with comprehensive HMDA compliance options that further boost the accuracy of HMDA submissions. The difference is deeper integration than is typical and meticulous efforts in field mapping by Harland Financial Solutions.

Ernie Els

The best player who is on form is going to win the tournament. Accuracy is at a premium here and you'd better have your short game. Overall, it's a great test.

Matthew Felling

The media's credibility takes a short-term hit with these public corrections. But ... the media is becoming very skillful at policing itself - which will build its accuracy in the future.

Ron Hutchins

Accuracy is more important than strength. Anybody can hit a ball out, it takes a little practice to keep it in the green.

David Koo

Having the infrared data from Spitzer allows us to measure the star formation rates very accurately because we are no longer blinded by dust.

Ridley Scott

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

Marc Basnight

There is a great deal of information floating around about the gasoline tax -- both accurate and inaccurate. This will give citizens and elected officials the opportunity to sift through the most precise information and move forward with the facts.

Mia Bloom

There is no accurate criminal profile for them. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to get on TV. And if we had a profile, the terrorists would learn about it and use it against us.

Lee Hancock

With more than 210 million mobile, local search page views in 2005, go2 continues to be one of the most popular mobile websites in the U.S. and a leading mobile, local search directory and movie guide. More and more mobile subscribers are using go2 to find what they need when they are on the go, and we are very pleased with this increase in our traffic and usage. Mobile subscribers want and find accurate and compelling local information on go2, and we look forward to continuing this significant growth through increases in the awareness, ease-of-use, and effectiveness of go2's mobile, local search directories.

Deric Ladnier

We think everybody is pretty aware as to who the better pitchers are. The publications, I think, have been pretty accurate in identifying those guys. Now, it's just a matter of who do we want?

Shankar Sastry

We can conceptualize smart buildings where the atmosphere inside each room is sensed and controlled in regions to accommodate varying preferences of its occupants. Water in the soil (and) chemical composition of the environment can be monitored and controlled inside hothouses or even in vineyards and fields. The key is to go beyond sensing the changes of physical quantities to closing the loop around the sensor webs, which means making accurate decisions based on the information.

Phil Loy

I thought Tyler played his best game of the year tonight. Accurate passing, good ball movement, and effective penetration. You name it.

Chris Stone

It gives us an accurate picture of students' progress throughout the year.

Ken Bacon

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,

Steve Spurrier

He is real sensitive to some of his colleagues in college, when a lot of people are saying he's going to get this job or that job. He doesn't want to be out there in August talking about that.

Stephen Flynn

What we have failed to realize is the terrorists showed us on 9/11 that we are vulnerable. And Katrina showed us here in late August and September that we are still a very vulnerable society--and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat.

Chuck LaMar

Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had already gone from Double-A to Triple-A and we thought it was time for him to go home and get ready to play winter ball if he wanted to, or if not, get ready for spring training.

David Buik

It has been a long hard August with significant volatility. Twenty-one of the last 30 Septembers have yielded losses on the month. It is difficult to see that this September will buck the trend.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our operations (on Monday) went about as smoothly as on any other August day.

Rick Sherlund

Oracle has an August quarter, so we are more compelled to cut estimates now. Siebel is September, so we could wait, but the numbers just look too optimistic. Given cost reductions, the EPS cut for Oracle is small, but the growth rates for Siebel are much faster, so EPS reductions more significant.

Andrew Kenny

If you live in a city like Chicago, New York, San Francisco or Austin, this is not the last time you're going to see us. Though this is the last time we're going to get in a van in August and get out of the van in December. This is the last time everyone quits their jobs and does the whole shebang.

Herbert Hainer

Clearly there are challenges that Reebok will solve but these were not unknown when we made our offer in August and we remain fully confident in the synergies,

Lyle Gramley

Greenspan did not participate in supplying numbers for that forecast -- he refused to do so -- and sometimes in his testimony he didn't even mention the forecast.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Stephen Briggs

In all, we forecast that world lead production will grow by 5.5%-6.0% in 2006 and 4%-4.5% in 2007.

Viswanathan Vasudevan

The forecast for the full year and the first quarter has been disappointing. We will have to look into the details.

Walt McDonald

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

Alan Stern

Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn out to be.

Dwight Dively

It's another indication of why I think this revenue forecast is very risky,

Jeffrey Applegate

The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Walt McDonald

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Courtney Smith

I think we'll probably see an up session in the market over the next several days.

Howard Ward

I think what we're seeing in the market is the reflection of a lot of uncertainty right now,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Zig Ziglar

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Iqbal Sacranie

This is a long overdue measure but nevertheless is a welcome first step.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Tom Peters

What gets measured gets done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Donald Trump

in a period of not too many years.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Joni Pitkanen

The first period we weren't ready, that's for sure.

Leroy Shafer

You couldn't program better weather for a three-week period than we've had this year.

John Foxe

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

Tom Cross

This is just the start of a period of strong growth.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Moe Ammar

The private sector can turn it around a lot quicker.

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Joel Kotkin

My theory is Americans are villagers, basically. We want the private space, the single-family house. But we want also the public space.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Hugo Ch

This is real imperialist penetration, ... They are taking sensitive and strategic information.

John O. Brennan

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

Masiela Lusha

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

J. B. Priestley

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.