Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nandan Nilekani

Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

James Wolfensohn

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Pramod Mahajan

I think whenever you are communicating to one billion people, you should bring more and more clarity on what you think.

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Bob Risch

I always considered that more of a threat.

Richard Chamberlain

Handsome" means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Shah Rukh Khan

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Sugata Mitra

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

Mark Leno

The only thing that could come to mind is that he's politically pandering to the far right, which has been demanding that he make a statement, ... I'd like to take her at her word that he only considers the policy implications, which means there's no need to make such a hurried decision.

Jon Fleischman

Here's a state that Democrats have long considered an easy win. Not this time.

Paul DePodesta

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

Walter Rodgers

There is no electricity in parts of town, but there is food, there is water.

Ray Charles

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room

Ian Shepherdson

The headline reflects a 3.2 percent rise in gasoline prices. Natural gas and electricity prices were also much stronger than the PPI suggested. The good news is the 0.1 percent core, which supports the Fed's view that transitory factors have boosted inflation in recent months.

James Woods

You could see all this fire and smoke and electricity flying everywhere. You could see arcs of electricity. It was just crazy.

Dorothy Thompson

The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms,

Renaldo Wynn

It's a new era. Guys have that taste in their mouths. Guys are starting to believe. It's an electricity, from top to bottom.

Lou Reed

Electricity comes from other planets.

James Wood

There was electricity just going and going like a wave. It just kept on going wave after wave.

James Hartman

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.