Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Fred Anderson

The consumer market is pretty soft. We are seeing things similar to what our competitors are.

Rob Enderle

The consumer market is largely a fourth-quarter market nowadays, and this will severely damage the market. There is no way around it.

Bill Watkins

The consumer is where the growth is. All the hard drive guys look smart right now,

Roland Hwang

The hybrid Mariner is the right idea at the right time. To regain its competitive edge, Detroit must come to grips with how high pump prices have put consumers in an entirely new mindset. This vehicle proves that a determined Detroit can win this race.

Patrick Barkey

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Ron Cameron

In the end it will be the market which determines the outcome and there is sufficient price tension to suggest another increase but to what degree remains uncertain.

Min Kao

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

David Orr

The Fed did not lower the fed funds rate, but their statement indicates a 180 degree about-face in terms of their view of the risks facing the economy, ... It looks to me they're ready to do what they have to do when they have to do it. They just aren't exactly sure when they have to do it.

Nobuhiko Matsunaka

I'm glad that the team needs me to such a degree but it's hard for me to give a quick answer.

Joseph Tacopina

This is manslaughter due to the degree of recklessness.

Warren Spector

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Phil English

Clearly, NAFTA has never delivered on its promises, ... We need to redesign NAFTA so it's not a race to the bottom.

David Seibert

A lot of our supplies went to the police department because a lot of those officers lost everything they had. We delivered a lot of uniforms to those officers.

Tim Ghriskey

Its valuation means it's priced for perfection and perfection was not delivered this quarter.

John Varley

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

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.

Bob Williams

With software as a service and entertainment software delivered via the Internet, we're seeing interesting new Internet technologies and delivery platforms that enable these types of applications.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Mike Beall

I think you can see by the reaction of my girls. They know we're going to have to play them again. It's just another region game, just like the last one was. Just another region game. Our focus right now is Flagstaff next Tuesday on the road.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Mack Brown

It has been a very good week of practice ... the most focused I've seen them because they can't wait until Saturday. They know it is going to be a great test.

Jason Taylor

It has been a little edgy. We are more focused and realize that we have a lot of things that need to be corrected.

Mary Roach

I think that the women's magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on - they're thinking, 'Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?'

Siedah Williams

I think that is one thing that we focus on as a team. We don't want Tiffany to go out a loser. We want to get her a championship before she leaves. We are all pretty close, and that is one thing that we have all focused in on and said we were going to get down.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Van Nguyen

He is my heart, ... If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped.

Darren McCarty

I'm just happy I hit the net. I'm happy I didn't mess that up. When it happens bang-bang like that, you have less time to mess up because you don't have time to think.

Kevin Brooks

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Elizabeth Smart

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Eric Bogosian

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Jonathan Ogden

It's not even really that important. Let's see what happens on Sunday.

Jessie Evans

It shows what happens if we play together.

Tom McCoy

Dad's big watchword was flexibility . . . so much stuff happens (in school and in life) you have to be ready and flexible,

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Jiang Baoguo

The restaurant name means soaring higher and higher.

Steve Andrews

This is a very mainstream issue that should be raised to a higher profile.

Richard Franulovich

It's not a big surprise. A lot of the things we were looking at such as lower oil prices and higher Boeing deliveries have all conspired to make it a better number.

Chris Mennis

It's probably going to go higher from here.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Robert Metcalfe

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Viola Spolin

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

Verne Troyer

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

Ulrich Walter

ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

Will Shortz

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.