Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seesel

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Bhagavad Gita

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

David Jenkins

The study's findings suggest that the average person can do a lot to improve their health through diet. People interested in lowering their cholesterol should probably acquire a taste for tofu and oatmeal, keeping in mind that portable alternatives fit best with a modern lifestyle. Save the experimenting for the evening, when you have more time to prepare more complicated meals.

Joseph Lynch

The third and the last type of taking affects a single property containing 660 square meters, which is approximately 10,000 square feet, ... It is substandard. The lot is specific to Spaulding Road at Townsend Road. The project proposes to realign the road, and in doing so the project needs to acquire that land. It is a friendly taking.

Bill Stern

The Supreme Court made it clear that the authority gets the first shot at the land. With their decision in hand, we're moving forward with steps to acquire the site.

Nancy Brown

The thing is, these people being housed in shelters are getting food and drinking water, and they don't have the room to acquire a lot of possessions. They will need the basic personal care items such as diapers and infant formula, but their basic needs are being provided by the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. That takes money: There's no way around it. A 16-ounce can of food won't feed very many people in a shelter, but a truckload of No. 10 cans will.

George Morris

The museum found out about the knife not too long ago and sent a couple of their people to Monmouth to talk to me. After looking at the knife and the documentation, they asked me if I would be willing to donate it to the museum. I said that perhaps I would in the future but for now I preferred to keep it. They then pointed out that it couldn't be proved that the knife really was Lincoln's and I asked them if they felt if that was the case, why did they drive all the way from Springfield to acquire it? They didn't seem to have an answer for that.

Shimon Edelman

ADIOS relies on a statistical method for pattern extraction and on structured generalization two processes that have been implicated in language acquisition. Our experiments show that it can acquire intricate structures from raw data, including transcripts of parents' speech directed at two- or three-year-olds. This may eventually help researchers understand how children, who learn language in a similar item-by-item fashion and with very little supervision, eventually master the full complexities of their native tongue.

Fernando Meirelles

Ralph deserves an award for this performance. He's so relaxed, so natural. We're used to seeing Ralph Fiennes as cold, rational. Here he's lighter. He brings a humanity to the role. He's played a lot of edgy characters. Here he plays an average character.

Greg Raymer

really did a lot to boost the popularity of the game. Viewers immediately liked Moneymaker a down-home boy from Tennessee and average players everywhere could identify with him. He's not flashy or fancy. He's a good guy who's not full of himself.

Kenny Tang

Property stocks sprang to life after falling about 10 percent on average over the past six months as rising interest rates dampened property market sentiment.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

Bill Swank

Our customers are out of service less time only half as much as the national average so if we had bad maintenance we wouldn't have that kind of reliability.

Andy Bryant

Our expectation for gross margin percentage in the third quarter is 47 percent, plus or minus a couple of points. The change from the second quarter is driven largely by lower average selling prices of microprocessors.

Rob Ritchie

Our execution excellence strategy has delivered an outstanding first quarter. We have managed our cost structure effectively, responding quickly to changes in traffic. Our operations team has done an excellent job delivering improved fluidity, with average train speed increasing 17 per cent, yard processing time decreasing a full 32 per cent, and car velocity up 15 per cent over the same period last year.

Scott Kahan

People shouldn't chase returns. The average investor looks back at returns and buys based on performance. But people have to look at the worst-performing sectors, not the best-performing ones. That's where the smart investor goes.

Alan Parker

People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa content means that it contains far less sugar than the average chocolate bar.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Cyle Hankerd

As a team we have to work together and play well. One day we don't throw strikes and another day give them the best opportunities. We just have to work together.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Brendan Shanahan

As crazy as this sounds, having the hockey people off for a year gave us time to step back and re-examine the game. ... And this may have been the best thing to happen for our game and our fans.

Reggie White

As a senior, she's given us more experience. She's a really good defender. She's able to (guard) the other team's best perimeter player. That's really helped us.

Jon Gruden

As a runner he has incredible vision, tremendous stamina. He has great competitiveness, and he can run with power. In my years of coaching, he is certainly the best ball-carry back I have been around.

Jeffrey Brown

I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.

David Shore

We've resisted a lot of weird stories because they don't fit the show.

Andrew Walpole

We are hopeful he will be fit for the first Test.

Bobby Robson

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Rafael Benitez

Crouch is okay now. He's played a reserve game, where he performed really well. He's been training normally and he's now fit and ready for selection,

Catherine Campbell

We wanted one place where Jamie could fit in with everyone else, where it wasn't as noticeable he was different.

Kelly Holmes

We'll have to wait and see whether I am fit enough,

Marco Basten

We'll have to see whether he's fit in time. I can't make a prognosis about that now,

Leigh Matthews

Every player who is fit and well is playing particularly when we don't have to travel for the first week.

James Stephens

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

Nick Rimando

Another week to two weeks, hopefully less than that. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy before I go out there again.

Bill Maris

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

David Bernstein

Once we established that it was safe and did what we hoped it would do in normal healthy adults, then we move to our most vulnerable population, older adults and children.

Alan Marks

a real loss to people and to the overall health of the community.

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Ted Saskin

A financially healthy league is a positive for everyone, including the players, in the long run. We've always wanted teams to do well.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Derrick Rose

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

Steve Shephard

On vaulting, we need to improve our landings. We didn't stick any vaults. Everyone of them took a step.

Global Initiative

an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Dan Nault

The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Chris Hope

It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.

Ansari Bukhari

It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.

Richard Falkenrath

This is going to improve the quality of our identification, which we use at every checkpoint in the country.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Nolan Ryan

You never rule things like that out. We would be interested in seeing where the (Marlins) ownership is on that.

Vinny Cerrato

and we're not interested in making a trade.

Rachel True

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

Benjamin Booker

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

Miley Cyrus

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Robert Holsworth

At the end of the day, people thought keeping things going on the same track was more important than electing a Republican. In that way, the natural tilt of the state (favoring Republicans) was overcome.

Marlinda Martinez

Losing weight is usually at the top of everyone's resolution list, and keeping it off is the challenge.

Martin Brassil

He's great. We'll do very little work with him now, it's just a matter of keeping him ticking over.

George Orwell

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Frank Warren

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Baruch Spinoza

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Baruch Spinoza

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

Barbara Pym

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Jeff Kelly

be prepared with what you want to say.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Ron Reier

This type of thing doesn't really surprise us, and it's not something we're not already prepared for.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Vin Scully

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

Melaney Arnold

We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

John Harris

I started to think about everything we wanted to save out of the house.

Sidney Crosby

Marc-Andre has saved us a lot this year and he did it again.

Sean Burke

If I can make that save it's still 1-0. Right now we're not making the big plays.

Brett Gallagher

I can't stand the dollar. There's nothing that's going to save it and it's going to get worse .

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Richard Lee

If you save one soul, your work has been done.

Mike White

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

Kurt Russell

All I wanted for him was to save the world,

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Al Aqsa

This is taste of even more to come,

Bon Scott

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

Aristophanes

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Edvard Grieg

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Coolio

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.