Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Brian Dolan

Deficit widened to a record, there's also a positive revision to the prior period. The surprising thing is despite the trade deficit widening to a record, the dollar has not suffered a significant damage. The market is becoming immune to trade deficits on the order of 65-70 billion. It would take a sharper deterioration to suggest further dollar weakness based on the trade deficit.

John Given

Defense has always been our forte. Even with our good teams, our program's based on defense. We can control our effort on defense.

Rob Enderle

Companies didn't build a lot of inventory. Everyone based their build numbers on crappy consumer-confidence numbers. For certain high-demand products, companies are going to run out.

Raul Garcia

Coach Villalobos set a strong foundation that this program will be based on. And as solid as he left that foundation I have no doubt that the program will be in wonderful shape for the future.

Mike Tice

Cold and sticky, like I always dreamed it would be. I'm just happy for the guys. I knew we were going to have to work hard, based on how new I am and all the new faces we have. I knew it was going to take some time. But I just didn't think it would take five games.

Jim Allchin

Developers building embedded devices now have an open, reliable platform from which they can create innovative new solutions and bring them to market faster than ever. These solutions based on Windows NT Embedded 4.0 will enable customers to streamline and automate processes through the use of a wide range of new intelligent devices.

Eric Gorrell

Despite little marketing effort to date, each episode generates thousands of online applications. Based on the quality of these leads, we are now moving forward quickly with plans to roll out our distribution network, which will include a robust Web site and lead-generation engine, a call center and home buyer counseling services.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

L. Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Oprah Winfrey

I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.

Juicy J

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Jim Glickenhaus

The Nasdaq just went up too far, too fast. When anything goes up 100 percent in a year, it is too much; it has to pull back. This is a normal correction, and it's a spectacular time to buy these stocks.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Marvin Sapp

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

Amy Currier

Competing organizations have incentives to buy shirts during Homecoming.

Rick Sherlund

Companies are reluctant to buy stuff that's disruptive to their infrastructure

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

Firas Askari

Any weakening of the Canadian dollar represents a chance to buy more of the currency.

B. Priestley

... especially if you're a celebrity in this town.

Joshua Malina

Even the celebrity sign-in people didn't know who I was,

Robert Schuwerk

There is always a risk someone wants to play celebrity and get 15 minutes of fame and always risk, too, there might be someone who wants to stick a stake through Ken Lay's heart.

Michael Steele

We want to be the paper of record when it comes to celebrity news.

Lash Fary

Seven years ago it was a much harder pitch ... (but) our industry has been fueled by pop culture magazines. They need celebrity content.

Helge Hellberg

We're excited because it takes our message into the world. It's not just royalty or a celebrity coming, it's somebody who stands for what we are doing.

Laurence Kardish

She is a star by virtue of her passion. A Hollywood celebrity might choose roles that enhance their image, but Isabelle Huppert chooses roles that make her vulnerable.

Kathy Hotchner

She is a critic of everything. And I think she is very insightful. Underlying the humor is a commentary on contemporary celebrity culture.

Sammy Lee

He's the most humble celebrity I've ever met. I met Curt at the grand opening of the Ted Williams Hitters Hall of Fame. Mr. Williams was kind enough to see that we sat together. We swapped stories about Mr. Williams, of course.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Tom Halbmaier

(A win) will be huge momentum for us going into the midpoint and it would be huge momentum for them, too. At the turn it's all about getting in that top four. Right now we've done a good job to get where we're at, but we're not satisfied.

Rick DiPietro

A win's a win. To see 60 shots and lose wouldn't be a good feeling. I'll take this any day.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes. We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes, ... We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Rich Bonnaure

Baldwin's a really good player. Every time we managed to get it close, he'd come right back with a basket.

Mike Steele

Back when we had good rebounding teams we rarely got to 40 - 40 is a lot of rebounds.

Ridley Scott

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Shannan Bergen

At home you wanna come out ready to go. You wanna put your opponents down and we did a good job of that.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Maria Jimenez

We are studying here. We want to be able to work here. My parents are immigrants, too.

Larry Taylor

You have to treat people like you want to be treated. I was taught that by my parents.

Lloyd Thacker

Very seldom do parents pay the advertised price tag of a private school.

Debbie Ritchie

If that's all they're basing it on, then the parents need to take into consideration the rest of the story.

Ben Schott

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

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.