Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

John McCarthy

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

and City

focus on him or her, but to really focus on the thing that's good about you. ... We're asking women to be honest with themselves.

Greg Stumbo

We have diligently enforced our statute, and we are asking the court to find that we have done so. Then we will ask the court to order companies to pay in full.

Abhishek Bachchan

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

Gina Barreca

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

Rhonda Taylor

Both hospitals are constantly asking for more people. Of our graduates, 98 percent have jobs waiting for them, and most of them get jobs here locally.

Donna Davis

Being annexed into Gilbert is like asking us to get married to a very dysfunctional partner. And worse yet, the town is trying to make it a shotgun wedding.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm sure businesses have been affected, but they are very positive and very patient.

Joe Hogan

Most of these businesses are growing between 8 and 15 percent.

John Gage

With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.

Brad Anderson

We exceeded our revenue expectations for December, which positions us well for our fiscal fourth quarter. We're pleased and encouraged by the fact that virtually all of our businesses met or exceeded our expectations for December. As usual, customers shopped later than ever and results strengthened as the month progressed. Our employees capitalized on the trend with strong offers and improved in-stock positions.

Frank Fahrenkopf

We are the engine of the economy there, ... If the goal of creating an economic opportunity zone is to get businesses running and people back to work, it's counterintuitive that they are not going to include the largest employer.

Martin Gleeson

I think he (the owner) was going into one of the businesses that are located at that address. He left it running. The perpetrator saw it as an opportunity.

Kent Newcomb

I think GE is going to go back to its core businesses and refocus on them. The company has been growing very strongly. We expect the growth to continue despite a very soft economy. I think at the end of the day they'll wash their hands and move on.

Jennifer Merchant

I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's houses and businesses down. We have to look at a financial impact; when we look at environment only, where we've been for the last 20 years, it doesn't necessarily work.

Michael Eisner

We intend to make our businesses more efficient, increase our cash flow, and position ourselves to better capitalize on the long-term growth potential of our brands,

Daniel Clowes

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Megan Fox

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

John Oates

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

Tyra Banks

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.

Yves Saint Laurent

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

William Gurnall

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

William John Wills

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Carol Bartz

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

Michael Jaffe

You never love to hear a company say that they're going to knock earnings down.

Jim Bruce

You need the lawyers to understand what's dangerous and what's not; you need the IT people to know what's feasible and what's not; and you need a smattering of people from the rest of the company to know what the culture is.

Bill Smith

We have a pretty big house, so we didn't mind all the company. They had no place to go and we are all family, so we enjoyed each other's company for a while.

Steve Peterson

We're a small company with 130 people, and I think we probably had 40 people get involved in that.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

David Ritchie

Do they just want more money? Do they want this company (RIM) out of business? I don't know. I can't read their minds.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Kathy Duva

This isn't a 'Let's take him out for a spin and see how he is' fight.