Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Dave Brown

As a company, we will deliver significant productivity improvements in 2006 that will offset a portion of the expected increases for energy-related costs in commodities and transportation across our company. We will maintain our focus on the profitable growth and expansion of our businesses to meet the world's demand for energy-efficient building materials and glass-composite solutions.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

Kevin Rollins

As a management team, we deem this unacceptable and have established aggressive goals and implemented programs designed to drive personal accountability across the entire organization.

Larry Thomas

As an award-winning journalist and media professional, Mike possesses the knowledge, skills and experience to provide clients with solid counsel on how best to deliver content to newsrooms and across other media platforms. With his journalism expertise and stellar accomplishments as a media industry leader, Mike's record speaks for itself. We are honored to have him as part of our team.

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Mike McCue

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

Alexei Sayle

Anyone who saw the undercover work of the BUAV would be appalled and sickened to see the procedures we inflict on our next of kin in laboratories across the UK and in Europe,

Donald Rumsfeld

Anyone who looks at the overhead photography of these poor human beings, amassing into thousands of people trekking across drought-stricken areas, has to be just heartbroken. It is important that we and other countries assist those people,

Jess Blackburn

As far as their marketing goes, that's marketing. We continue to have a very solid relationship with Intel and nothing has changed in that respect. We probably are their largest customer; we shipped 10 million systems in the fourth quarter. I don't think any supplier is going to ignore a customer that is building that many systems and using that many of their parts in them.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Dick Hoyt

The buildings were shaking, I think, when we came down that street. The crowds just picked us up and carried us.

Anik Fournier

The buildings of the Third Reich had a very strong neo-classic design. They were supposed to last for a long time.

Jill Williams

The buildings of the museum are Spanish-Colonial revival style.

Earle Holley

The building is unique because there will be a rooftop garden.

Andrew Fox

The building is heated hydronically, entirely by hydro-air, ... We built the heating system around 11 primary water-to-air heat exchangers that range in capacity from 3,500 to 18,500 cfm per unit.

Michael Yormark

The building is fine with the exception of the little puncture on the end of the building.

Mike Besl

The building is exhausted. It's no longer energy efficient.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Jane Johnson

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Mayor Amabile

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.

Howard Davidowitz

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

Dan McClain

Putting Gulf Coast businesses back to work, including the largest employer in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, is an essential step in putting the region and its citizens' lives back together.

David Larsen

Quite frankly, I don't see any criminal intent. Businesses fail all the time.

Steve Mills

The role we're trying to play in the ASP world is principally selling to companies that want to be ASPs. We'll sell hardware, software and services expertise to help make businesses successful.

Kate Green

The Social Fund was designed to help the most vulnerable people at the time of greatest need meet the costs of things like cookers, cots and funerals, but it is not operating as well as it should be.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Debra Smith

The sponsors made all the difference. Not only did they cover event costs but provided prizes for the student participants as well.

Matt Buckland

The short trading week looks set to be dominated by oil prices. The news is likely to depress stocks with higher input costs set to damage margins.

Walter Price

The surprises were all on the positive side. I was worried that costs would be out of control.

Bill Warlick

The surge in fuel costs is offsetting a lot of the progress that's been made.

Michael Thompson

A focus on health is one of the key strategies to reduce health-care costs over time. A culture of health and well-being can reduce the trend in health-care costs over time.

James Berg

Actually, the operating revenues have been declining over the years because of the increasing costs and operating expenses.

Christian Camargo

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Ryan Robbins

What's great about having a sci-fi/fantasy show start on the web: that's a gigantic part of your demographic right there. It targets a significant part of your demographic when you deliver online.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

Anthony Anderson

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

Eli Segal

Sen. Kerry, you promised to deliver the records. When are they going to be delivered? The people of New Hampshire want to know.

Mark Sanders

Perry has six years of failure to deliver property tax relief and now three ridiculous tax schemes without even a legislative sponsor of this one.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Yusli Yusoff

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Tom Bentz

Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Ben Wood

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Stewart

The expansion of airports is guaranteed to increase emissions.

Ian Forrester

However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Anita Frazier

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Lord Browne

are expected to be well supported into the winter.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Stuart Rasch

I've lost about six to seven pounds. It's a lot less than I expected to lose.

Keith Sherin

The Olympics performed as expected even though in the quarter it was a loss.

Jason Tapp

South Lakes is improved and we expected a good fight. Fortunately we had more opportunities in the end.

Chris Witty

Once you're a medalist, you always hope to be a medalist, regardless of how I felt going in. I wanted to put it all together to see what I had. I just expected a race I could be proud of.

Judy Woodruff

No, we didn't have unrealistic expectations. We expected them to put up some fight.

Robbie Tobeck

Now, it's like last week. Guys were like, 'We won. We expected to win. Now, who's next?'

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

Jason Bram

The story of New Jersey is one of stability and modest growth.

Brent Bracelin

The slowing growth and deteriorating margins could mean that 2006 will be a more challenging year than 2005 was.

Tim Luke

the surprising sustainability of 30 percent-plus growth over the next 10 years.

Ernie Goss

The most recent rate increases, and a rate hike at its next meeting, in my judgment will slow growth to an unacceptably low rate for the region and the nation.

Ifzal Ali

Strengthening the inclusiveness of the growth process is a precondition to sustaining high growth rates.

Daryl Strohbehn

Some sires were in the top 25 percent with superior growth and end product weight, while others did it with moderate growth and superior quality attributes.

Evan Olsen

November has had a lot better tone to it than usual. We're seeing money rotating into the growth stocks. If I had to guess, I think people are pretty positive on the market.

Stuart Fraser

Technology is here to stay. There is long-term growth in the industry.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Peter King

There is a very serious question as to why the records are not going to be maintained on American soil subject to American jurisdiction.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Doug Bailey

Right now we think we can get our work done with the workers who have showed up. We will do what it takes to meet the obligations of our contract.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.