Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Patini

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.

Reinaldo Rueda

We have to go out of the tournament playing as well as we can. Tonight Argentina was too much for us. They showed personality, were dynamic, and played with precision.

Wayne Rooney

We are all confident, especially after the Argentina game when we won that.

Bryan Robson

Almeyda is a player I thought would have done a good job for us. But he has decided to stay in Argentina because of family problems and we have to respect his decision and move on.

Paul Reynolds

Foreign buyers started considering Argentina when we devalued our currency and property values dropped 40 percent. Those values have only just recovered to 1997 levels, and with airfare from Miami only $700 round-trip, we are drawing in a lot of Florida investors.

Franz Beckenbauer

They are full of world-class players and also impressed in the Confederations Cup. But in 2002 I said France and Argentina were my favorites, and both went home after the group stages.

Martin Redrado

As an oil producer, Argentina fortunately need not to worry about the high oil price

Marcos Basaglia

People are still worrying over the Argentina situation.

John Carioba

On top of all the problems we have here with the energy crisis and Argentina and the dollar ... being very volatile, you have the Nasdaq and Dow Jones going down.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Gordon Smith

The person was known. People were identifying him from inside of the store shortly after the call came in.

Drew Altman

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jeff Stoutland

We always have Cook that's there, that's played center, that knows the center position inside and out.

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Monica Lewinsky

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing a rising increase in children coming through our children's emergency center with injuries.

Allison Watson

We started the push by presenting to partners the importance of people being at the center of how Microsoft delivers value in research and development and for customers.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Don Haddox

We start a lot form Tom's feet at center back. Stefan takes over at the midfield and controls things from that point on. He's more or less the distribution source for everything. And Jon and Steve are just really solid workhorses in the midfield. They could play in every minute of every game and through overtime. They're just real fit specimens.

Jim Becka

When you travel through Montgomery County and notice the white crosses on the sides of the roads, keep in mind that the nearest trauma center to each cross is downtown Houston. The 2007 Texas Legislature will consider appropriating money for more trauma centers. If elected to the hospital district board, I plan on putting Montgomery County at the front of the line for one of these new facilities.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Joseph Osha

We also think that the Street's fourth quarter 2002 expectation of 17 cents in earnings per share is unreasonably high,

Daniel Yergin

We're expecting another 20 cents more than where we are,

R. Ingram

It's just that time of the year. It has been pretty gradual over the past two weeks, but the last two days have had big jumps, some going up 12 to 14 cents a gallon all at one time.

Michael Gray

A lot of the major players of this music are also European, and they're Gypsy. They're keeping the tradition alive. ... We just love the music, and we hope to put our own little 2 cents in there.

Matthew DiFrisco

They were looking for a positive currency impact of about 4-to-6 cents a share, so it's at the high end. But it's not really surprising.

Bill Dreher

They're telling us to pull our number down by 4 cents (per share).

Mitch Daniels

It's not something I'd say never to, ... But at this point, I just don't see it providing meaningful relief -- a few cents a gallon relief that would accrue to the wealthy as well as the less-fortunate.

Eliot Engel

There is no way that increased gas prices at the pump could have been reflected in two days after the hurricane with spikes of 30 to 50 cents per gallon, ... It is shameful and unconscionable that these oil companies are making profits off people's misery with this hurricane.

Jill Midkiff

It saves the state money. The cost of processing a paper return is $1.62, versus 10 cents to process an electronic return.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Julie Gerberding

We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,

Scott Horne

We're going to see dramatic growth. The launch of third-generation mobile services in China is going to require new services.

Jonathan Blum

We're seeing improvement in our China business, and hopefully that will continue.

Jason Goulden

We're seeing a lot in China now that we didn't see in the past cycle. These are sort of the new frontiers so to speak.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Ron Duchesneau

We spent the first six to eight months of the SOX project figuring out how we were going to do this.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis von Ahn

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Russian Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth

Patrick Michaels

This movie takes a grain of truth and turns into a mountain of apocalypse.

Roger Johnson

They're more expensive, but they last forever, ... and you can grain and stain them to look just like wood.

David Marshall

Producers will withhold their grain from the market if they can. The elevators will tend to withhold grain from the market.

Mike Orr

At one point during harvest, we were paying more to transport the grain from Clayton to the Gulf than we paid for the grain.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

William Shakespeare

May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!

Ken Beck

Land is a commodity, just like grain or anything else. And the time may come when they might want to 1031 their way out of here, too.

James Heath

We can potentially get the computational power of 100 workstations on the size of a grain of sand. We'll do it in steps; I'm hopeful that we can do it in about a decade.

Clarissa Ward

We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

James Awad

This has been building; it's been happening quietly for several months,

Mary Stuart

For a while, it was this sleepy little happening on campus, but within the last 18 months, we've seen much more interest on the part of publishers,

John Friend

It's the parade; it's our strip launching; it's the launch of a toy line; it's the launch of DVD's, a video game; and it's all these things happening at once, ... You have a pop going on in terms of awareness.

Allen Iverson

They are similar, absolutely. We have leads and we give a lead up. It's been happening like this, the same way.

Andrew Holland

This phase happens every 10 years. For instance, in the 90's, Japan was the happening market and a Japan strategy had to be in place. With the high inflation levels and saturated markets abroad, India's consumption story is real and comforting.

Pete Boockvar

There was selling for weeks in anticipation of something possibly happening. Just the risk of something happening made people want to lessen their exposure.

Neville Isdell

There will be a period in the middle where people will say it's not happening quick enough, ... But I'm comfortable with that; I'm here for the long term.

Rep. Bucher

It's a devastating situation what's happening to people who live in mobile home parks, not just here, but all over the state.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

John Felmy

It's a stain on the industry that's unfair. It's just disappointing.

Geoff Sundstrom

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Chuck Schumer

It's no secret that the manufacturing industry has been getting killed.

Michael Feeney

It's not the stable industry it was 20 years ago.

Ed Skvarch

It's the nursery industry that is really flourishing on the Treasure Coast. I'm starting to see more and more wholesale nurseries come up this way.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Scott Hartman

West and Bozeman look really loaded up. They have a lot of depth.

Terry Fleming

We have a very successful team and we are loaded with talent.

Russell Jones

Linemen come in and get their trucks loaded up and away they go.

Andrew Stacy

We have to play well. Batavia is very good. They are loaded year in and year out.

Jennifer Peppin

We did sweep the plane and we did find the handgun, and it was a loaded handgun. Once we got that we turned it over to the state police in Boston.

Toney Baker

I'm loaded with bait. I have a bait-cast rod, not too many people know how to use those.

Larry Coker

You can't take everybody, for whatever reason, be it you're loaded at that position or whatever it might be. They've got players who could play for about anybody. That's the thing that you see, that they have talent. That's Florida.

Brandon Flowers

We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

Wanda Hartman

All of our trucks are loaded up and pulled out about 10 minutes ago.

Dick Cavett

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

Michigan State

This was a 15-rounder and then some, ... In the end Nebraska made more plays than we did.

Andrew Rannells

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

Sam Keller

It comes up because of the circumstances. But it is irrelevant. We're a different team than the '96 team, and USC is a better team than that Nebraska team.

Dave Heineman

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

Mike Johanns

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Kate Millett

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

Sean Penn

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Mark Olson

It's expensive. If you're selling $2 corn, you can't make it.

Jim Ford

It's about getting out there and selling it. I've been trying to go to all the parents' meetings.

Donald Young

This is the top team at Compaq selling at the highs,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Nicholas James

This is not about selling more books. We just want her to be used more in the classroom.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

John Dilling

The town shouldn't be selling a non-conforming lot.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Pope John

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

John Keefe

After all these years of service, ... you kind of feel, 'Why did I do this?'

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Paul Watson

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

D. H. Lawrence

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Dave Allen

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Robert Anthony

When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

Tamora Pierce

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Susan Jeffers

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Chris Hester

It's killing me. I've got staff sitting everywhere. This year, I don't know what is wrong. Is it because there's no Lance?

Kurt Warner

You don't want to be sitting out the game. You want to be out there battling, no question. But at the same time, when those things happen, what do you do? Do you stew on it and pout about it, or do you do everything you can to get back on the winning track?

Riley Wallace

It's a big win because you're still sitting up there 2-0 for another week.

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Melissa Wilson

It's been a very technical evacuation for the people.