Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Saltzman

We intend to continue our negotiations with the City of Buffalo and Erie County for a balanced approach to the Niagara Project's relicensing that maintains the hydroelectric project's low electricity rates, ... Slaughter has talked with us about a reasonable agreement, as have others.

Hans Olsen

Look for it in the earnings of discount retailers, restaurants and travel sectors. Start to look for GDP to be impacted, earnings in the third and fourth quarters, especially now because we're starting to approach the home heating season. This is not good. We haven't seen anything like this in the better part of 25 years, where you start to have people thinking about gas lines.

Jeff Kaminsky

Mark will give us a physical presence on the interior. He has good court awareness, make good decisions and has an unselfish approach that will help will make him a good fit in our program.

Dustin Almond

Like our motto says, that's how we're going to approach it. As a football team, we like challenges, and it's going to be a challenge.

Peter Tatchell

While demanding rights for Muslims, the MCB wants to deny rights to lesbian and gay people -- both Muslim and non-Muslim. It sees no double standard or inconsistency in its selective approach to human rights.

Christopher Whitney

While Americans generally support the goal of promoting democracy, they take the pragmatic approach of not making it a top priority in all cases.

Gary Johnson

We received an approach from Preston. Marcus feels this will best serve his interests for first-team football.

Martin Bain

We received an approach by Portsmouth asking permission to hold talks with our manager. Permission was not granted.

Steven Burd

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Jerome Bettis

You ask why have the Pittsburgh Steelers been a physical, smash-mouth type of a team for so long. I think it's because the team takes the identity of its head coach. He looks for tough players. He looks for physical players. And he doesn't settle for anything less.

Marcus Aurelius

You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my Linus, has no sign of you

Mark Fuhrman

You ask me, I say Fuhrman is 257 percent guilty.

Sam Mitchell

You ask me how many game we're going to win, I'll tell you at the end of the season. I'll tell you in April.

Mickey Arthur

You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. Not one name jumps out at you, because there hasn't been a guy that has actually stood up and put his hand up.

Cher

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Takeo Spikes

And the most important thing at the end of the day is that we stay together as one in relaying the information to the rest of the guys.

Roy Orbison

I waited, and I’m sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

Ron James

I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.

Tom Felton

It's remarkable to see the advancements since the early days of [Harry] Potter with putting LEDs on everything, pointing sticks and measuring. Just archaic stuff. Now, it's like one guy with a laptop.

Tom Berenger

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

Tom Berenger

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal

Todd Helton

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

Todd McFarlane

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Tony Hawk

In ramp skating, theres this guy Alex Perelson whos really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we havent seen before. Just different types of spin.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Tony Parker

Every time we play Houston, we have a hard time scoring. Whenever you make the outside shot, it opens things up for us.

Louis Amundson

Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from the start.

George H. W. Bush

there's people from all walks of life working hard to protect the American people.

Laveranues Coles

There's only so much you can do,' ... 'Just keep playing hard and it will be O.K.'

Mark Parrish

There's got to be a sense of urgency. We didn't work hard enough to get the puck.

Jerod Uldall

There's only one other one (banner) up there. The hard work by these kids paid off.

Kevin Colbert

There's nowhere you can go, because you don't know what the situation will be. It's hard to speculate. You have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. We don't know the specifics as to where we stand. It's all speculation at this point.

Ryan Long

The time reflects the training that (Davis has) put them through. He's had them working hard with the idea of trying to use this meet as a springboard into the state meet.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Chris Burke

It will just be a footnote, ... Then maybe we won't have to see it replayed for years and years and years.

H. Hunt

They enabled him to do a lot of things that maybe he wanted to do that we couldn't do the year before.

Petter Solberg

It was better this afternoon. I think maybe I'm taking it too carefully, but I really want points here.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

Martha Graham

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Marguerite Young

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Moliere

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Molly Ivins

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.