Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Allardyce

Kevin has led the team with passion and professionalism. Each week he gives you everything and he has the ability to be a top player for years to come. One of his main attributes is his ability to score goals on a regular basis. If he continues to progress, he'll go close to earning a seat on the plane to Germany in June.

Michael Nathanson

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Frank Solich

(Jacobs) has two receivers that are going to get a shot at pro ball and have the ability to play. They're averaging over 100 yards a game in receptions. They have a combination of things that makes it very hard to stop.

Virginia Laken

Keith and I thought we had really good communication but we hadn't had to have this kind of communication about our intimacy. We so often equate intimate relationships with ability to have intercourse, and what we try to help couples understand is that intimacy is not totally equated with intercourse. Intimacy -- as we all know but don't usually put into practice -- can happen in many, many ways.

Louis Miller

Joe Leonard doesn't make quick decisions, which is good. He has the ability to focus on what he wants to get done.

Mike Eaves

Joe has the ability to make something out of nothing, and it's hard to account for skill like that. That makes him an effective offensive player.

Mike Scioscia

Joe has an incredible baseball mind and a tremendous ability to communicate with players on all levels. That's a combination any player should appreciate.

Paul Krumpe

Josh is a very versatile player who could very well be a major contributor this fall. He has the ability to play wide on the left or the right and possesses some great physical attributes.

J. Taylor

John is very athletic for his size. His strength is there. He's got to polish a few things in the passing game and some in the running game, but as long as he has a desire there to want to be successful, he's got all the athletic ability to be successful.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Larry Scott

Historically this is a very significant development. We've had some very high-profile matches where momentum has turned based on calls. Now the players know the calls will be right.

Russel Honore

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

Ken Hitchcock

It certainly wasn't based on anybody's poor play and that's what made it such a difficult decision.

Peter Franck

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it's clearly not an artifact.

Harvey Bennett

It is a lot of money, but law enforcement with their experience and expertise is used to making informed decisions based on their experience.

Chris Watson

I think the jury came to the right decision based on all the facts in the case. I think they came back with the only verdict they could based on all the facts.

Paul Mott

I think the games in Baton Rouge will start in mid-December based on the parameters we got from the people at LSU. We're still in negotiations.

Jose Basulto

I think the cartoon says a lot about what happened to our psyche after Castro took power and established a society based on double morality.

Tiger Woods

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

Paul Kirk

I will be a good benchmark for us. I have shuffled the deck and this game should give us a good idea of where we are,

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Roland Avante

The US treasuries are declining in price but our comparative benchmark is not moving so the spread is declining.

Niranjan Bhat

Flu seasons change widely in severity. We don't know if this was a severe season or not. This (study) is really a benchmark for future seasons.

Alex Rodriguez

We could win three World Series, with me it's never going to be over. My benchmark is so high, whatever I do it's never going to be enough and I understand that. Maybe when I retire is when all the critics and all that stuff is going to end.

Steven Wieting

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

Wayne Mitchell

George Town have been the benchmark of the competition but we're just looking to go out and play some solid football early and see what transpires from that.

Paul Foster

I don't know if you're seeing short-selling as much as money managers of growth funds getting out now that they can see growth isn't going to be more than 10 percent. St. Jude doesn't meet their benchmark standard for their funds.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

John Whisenant

Kara and Chelsea can both play point, but they're more effective at the other guard,

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Randy Carlyle

He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.

Hines Ward

I just hate to see that I'm getting put into that same category because I think our situations are totally different,

Sean McAlinden

It's our Category 5, our economic New Orleans.

John Nolan

I've got a really mature point guard for a sophomore. The Considine girl doesn't like to lose and she plays that way. She not selfish - she leads us in every category - shooting, scoring, assists and steals. But her determination and work ethic rub off on everybody else.

John Gallagher

I've got a pretty good sense we're probably prepared for a Category 3, ... I don't think I'm prepared for a Category 5.

John Krasinski

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

Larry Dixon

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

Richard Roeper

That's always the category when you get the crazy moment early on when someone wins, then they are kind of never heard from again.

Nick Shay

The last time there was a season with two Category 5 hurricanes in the same basin was in 1961 with Carla and Hattie. However, the same phenomenon occurred the year before in 1960 with Donna and Ethel.

Sean Coffey

Our clients were quite impressed with the vision of Nortel's new management and the plans for the future.

Gerald Shargel

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

Jim McVay

You want to make sure your package has value. Our clients need to feel they're getting more value than the cost. It's important to give people their money's worth ... This has become more than a game.

Arthur Conan

And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

Robert Hartwig

The clock is ticking loudly. Insurers are about to enter negotiations with commercial clients to renew their policies for 2006.

Robert Hartwig

The clock is ticking loudly, ... Insurers are about to enter negotiations with commercial clients to renew their policies for 2006.

Jack Gold

The clients will ultimately be free. You'll pay for it on the back end.

Paul Mills

This is normal with McKenzie Scott clients to see such a compensation package.

Gary Schatsky

Stock options can overshadow the value of a retirement plan in a heartbeat. I've had clients who made millions by waiting a few weeks.

Roy Wilsher

Hertfordshire has had six recent training exercises on site in the last six months - the last one three weeks ago - and has worked closely with the site for many years to prepare for any incidents.

Richard Franulovich

We're oil traders now because currencies are trading so closely off oil. All the risk now is that the hurricane does not have all the negative effects for the U.S. economy.

Tyrone Willingham

I think we're going to look very closely at our situation to make sure we have things in the right order. I think we've got to make sure we've got that situation where it needs to be.

Jason Chaffetz

I have worked closely with my Democratic allies. Elijah Cummings is a good friend.

George Darden

I'm pleased that I won, ... I'm happy ... that the colleagues who I worked closely with were always there to support me.

Allan Adler

In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,

Pete Domenici

I intend to watch this unfolding story closely and to hold oversight hearings when appropriate.

Rachel Johnson

I'm going to watch my friends more closely and make sure they don't do anything stupid.

Jamie Cullum

The first suit I enjoyed was a Dior suit that I got given. I've never worn anything that fitted that closely - it was akin to 'Oh my God, I had no idea that a suit didn't have to be this wide.' But I do intend to get one made some day.

Vincenzo Guzzo

In particular, it will have to succeed in combining growth-enhancing measures with a debt consolidation process.

Paul Lang

As your skills progress, there's even more freedom. It's like combining so many sports into one that's outrageously fun to be involved in.

John Hall

A tepid equity market, a flat yield curve and low interest rates are all combining to put earnings and sales pressure on fourth-quarter results for life insurers.

Gene Kimmelman

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Toshifumi Suzuki

We will be able to have a synergy effect by combining each other's strong points.

Erik Troan

We feel that by combining Red Hat's strengths in servers and workstation technology with Cygnus' expertise in small devices, we're creating a compelling story for the post-PC world,

Lord Byron

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Linda Bannister

from a strategic standpoint the merger makes a lot of sense. It's combining strong content with a whole new means of distributing that content.

Japheth Boyce

If these two specimens are from the same dinosaur, it is very exciting. Combining them would put Barnum in the top six T. rex skeletons in the world.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Dennis Cary

In the international markets ... the first- and business-class customers are about half the revenue on the airplane. These are customers who for a 12-hour journey are looking for a different experience.

Paul Matthews

In recent weeks we have seen increased demand from customers for a competitive term deposit rate,

Dan Butler

I realize you have a personal life outside of work. And when you're here we expect you to put the customers first.

James Carbone

His customers were kids. His customers were young girls.

Rick Tolman

I'm hearing estimates of maybe a week to two weeks before they can resume exporting. But if it goes longer than that, our customers start turning to other sources of supply and we start losing sales, which obviously has an impact on price.

Jim Robbins

If the price tag for sports is too high, our customers shouldn't be forced to pay for it,

Philip Greenfield

Historically, a parallel relationship exists between inventory and service: if you want high service levels, you need a lot of inventory. We want to switch that, and deliver high service levels with less inventory.

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Keith Rockwell

It has been a wonderful election. It means we are able to deliver when we need to deliver.

Viktor Yushchenko

I have heard a lot of stories and legends on how this poison has been delivered, where it has been produced, which secret services were used for delivering it in Ukraine,

Ricky Hatton

I have been very pleased with Dennis Hobson, ... We spoke to many people about the prospect of working with them and Dennis delivered. He put his money where his mouth is and delivered the fight.

Derek Moyers

He'll deliver a hit when he needs to, too.

Warren Spector

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Jeff Bezos

In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.

Hank McKinnell

By transferring their expertise to local healthcare workers, these Fellows make lasting contributions to support health systems in communities ravaged by diseases. The Pfizer Global Health Fellows program represents an innovative collaboration between NGOs and the private sector to significantly improve the lives of people around the world in a sustainable way.

Kevin Burns

This is our method for providing our expertise to the community. If someone wants to staff the station full time around the clock, we'll look at a different avenue.

Tom Sykora

It's something we didn't have the expertise to do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Dave Lesar

This demonstrates our customers' willingness to pay a premium for our technological expertise that results in accelerated production rates.

Kathleen Booher

They're stepping out of their expertise when they're doing that.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Jack Baker

Joseph Sibley was one of the premier historical figures of the oil region and his influence extended worldwide.

Jim Tracy

He was adamant about doing everything to get back quickly. He's not 100 percent healthy. The running aspect, he might not be able to fully extend himself that way. Defensively, it isn't a problem.

Ed Cange

We talked all week about playing fundamentally sound. When you do that, it's hard for teams to make extended runs and come back on you.

Don Fehr

I think we will (have a tougher new policy). I don't think it will take an extended period of time.

Ralph A. Cram

Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.

Brandon Ewing

It's good for any team in the conference, any team in the country, to get off to a start like that. It just gives you a lot of confidence. If we can start out 4-0, then that can extend to 5-0 and 6-0.

Dale Moser

It's for people to have an extended weekend and still have lots of money left to spend.

Dwane Casey

We had an opportunity to extend the lead but didn't come up with making the play. We had open shots, guys were wide open but you've got to be able to make those.

Paul Denham

It's just tragic. It must be just so sad for the family and we extend our sincere sympathies to them,

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Jeff Raikes

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Knox Fuqua

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

Alan Skrainka

Take IBM out and the market looks pretty much unchanged on the day.

Bob Djurdjevic

Prior to 1994, IBM didn't have the kind of structure it has now. They also had silos,

Larry Rice

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Gordon Bethune

I'd rather have 50 people at 100 percent of their pay than 100 people at 50 percent, ... If you don't pay people what they're worth, they'll go to IBM or somewhere where they are paid what they're worth.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

David Hahn

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

Chuck Norris

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Steven Wright

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

David Graves

That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Robert Shapiro

Race is not, and will not be an issue in this case.

Sara Sheridan

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

Werner Herzog

Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Adnan Agca

The judges and prosecutors are under threat and pressure.

Christopher Russell

It's like running a relay race. You're on your last leg and the judges suddenly say 'Stop.' You lose your momentum.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Jaymie Pedigo

Judges can come from the community; they don't have to be scientists.

Warren E. Burger

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

William Garay

You've got to realize that water is probably 50 or 60 degrees.

Chris Paul

It just seemed like we were scoring and they were scoring, we were scoring and they were scoring. And it can't be like that. We realize that we can score at times at will, but at the same time they were scoring every time.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Brian Silverman

It's like a dream. I never realized how big it is.

Audrey Rust

It makes you realize how important it is to do this well.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Robert M. Pirsig

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Zhang Ziyi

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Marc Benioff

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Narendra Modi

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Tom Rogers

The value of stand-alone subscriptions is much more important to us than DirecTV,

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

William Arthur Ward

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.

Rick Ross

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Jeffrey Gitomer

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.

Chris Paul

I've been a winner my whole life.