Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Faulkner

I think today's bid was a 'don't-come-near-me' bid.

Peter Ueberroth

It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed. It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale.

Nick Zito

I watched Spectacular Bid break his maiden (27) years ago, and he reminded me of him.

Craig Chan

There are shifting expectations on whether the Fed will pause or not after its meeting next week. Signals from the Fed that it may pause in June may see a bid for Treasuries.

Tony Kornheiser

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he suppoprt the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

Tony Kornheiser

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe ? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he support the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

Gene Shull

I did not use my position on P&Z to better my company. And the only money I can ever remember receiving from Smith County was for jury duty. I think we all know there are very strict regulations on conflicts of interest. I don't intend to become county judge just so I can bid on county work.

Peter Braendle

I can imagine that a bid does actually happen and I'd be happy with somewhere under 900 pence. It has got predictable earnings and that's attractive.

Scott Long

Our bid of more ambulances and response times 1 1/2 minutes faster than our competitor would have a direct impact on the safety of Scottsdale residents.

Rick Tocchet

I would take a 3-0 lead every night. We didn't quit. Some guys think it's easy. It's hard to win. It's uncomfortable to win. I thought we were into it early and let Colorado off the hook. That's where your leadership takes over and you don't let it happen. In the end somebody has to go to the net. Somebody has to block a shot.

Jim Calhoun

He was a difference maker the entire day. He cleaned up the middle by blocking shots and obviously scored big baskets for us.

Cory Withrow

He knows the blocking schemes before we do them.

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Jason Dawson

Having them makes everything easier. They get us second-chance points, they block shots and they bring a lot of heart.

William Blake

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

Ahmad Dorsett

He's 6-8. It's expected for him to block shots. If he didn't block shots, something would be wrong. He's a great player.

Joey Harrington

He said, 'I'm trying to make too many big plays,' ... He was trying to make a big play each time he touched the ball, when really if he stuck with his blocks and what he knows how to do, good things will happen.

Scott Wood

There is no favoritism when it comes to run blocking or running routes, ... If all I'm going to do is run-block ... as long as the team wins, I don't care.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

David Hawkins

I wouldn't say it's unusual. In terms of moving from one institution to another, if Richard felt like it was time for change, it certainly seems like a logical move to make.

Jeff Kelly

I would say that the omission is certainly damaging to us.

Tony Russa

Just look at him, he's in great shape. I don't know if he's more excited than he's ever been, but certainly he's not any less. I think he's high quality.

Jon Gruden

(Jones) has done primarily punt returns, but if pressed into service we'll trust that he'll do the job if he's the guy we choose to go with. He (Pittman) has worked on that throughout his career. Once again, when certain things happen you have to have contingency plans in place. We'll work on our contigency plan throughout this week and we'll find somebody who gives us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.

John Bunting

Joe certainly has experience that Cam doesn't have, so he has a head start in that regard.

James Leavitt

I suspect the district attorney's office is investigating to see whether or not there is enough evidence for any of the charges. They are certainly looking at other incidents to see if there is any involvement.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Richard Curtis

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Brendan Gill

It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.

Jack Foley

Last year, I needed 10 people working full-time for a month doing 2005 contracts and setting up audits for our corporate customers. This year, I have one person updating the files in a day.

Mary Neubauer

In most instances, the retail location doesn't own the equipment that's operating there. That's owned by a retail operator and there are private contracts between those companies.

Keith Tkachuk

You can't replace guys like that. We put ourselves in this situation where they're going to get rid of a lot of the old guys who don't have contracts next year and try to rebuild.

Bob Wood

All the contracts have been ratified and everyone will go back to work on Monday.

Juan Rebolledo

It is still manageable in terms of the contracts we have to fulfill, but if it goes on for more time, the effect could become much more serious.

Nana Sutresna

In terms of denying the allegations - they used the words 'strongly deny' - they feel that this kind of measures has no foundation.

Melissa Frame

In some ways I'm a pioneer. I know my limitations -- I can't deny them -- but I really have great parents who try to let me do as much as possible, and I've had people encourage me throughout my life, so I've never let it stop me, at least in theater.

Denis Conroy

It was a game of runs. What they did a really good job of was denying the other players, other than Sam. They're like a glacier ? they wear you down.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Rachel Cusk

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

Will Walker

They were denying me real well. It got frustrating, but I had to do other things to stay involved.

Ravi Moss

It's not one or two things; it's everything . It's getting in your stance to denying the ball.

Acie Law

I tried to get it back but OU did a good job of denying me the ball. So the second option was for Joe to try to go down and make a play and he didn't make it.

Lindsey Harding

I tried not to let her touch the ball. I was trying to follow her and deny her the ball. The only thing that was open was the back door but they didn't look for that.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

Alan Siegel

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

Johnny Hill

We make a practice of being on- site for the initial install of every site. OSP engineers have joked with me that I must have worked in the field because the platform is designed to accommodate the 'fat fingers' of the field technician, rather than the manicured hands of a laboratory engineer.

Brian Murray

He never really seemed to take off as decisively as he has this year. We can put in a lot more designed plays.

Stephen Harper

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views, or intervening in an election.

Doug Armstrong

He knows we like him. He's been here for a number of years, and I've tried to express to him that I've been one of his stronger supporters over that time. Nothing to me has changed. When the time comes and he wants to stay here, we'll talk to him.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Stan Williams

Guys don't have very many ways to express themselves. Facial hair is equated with masculinity, and men's fashion is very masculine right now. They also make younger guys look older.

E. B. White

We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans.

Cecilia Munoz

We are expressing our hopes that the Senate will do something different.

Viktor Yushchenko

Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Shreya Ghoshal

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Stephen Flynn

The lowest-paying jobs on the waterfront are security people. But is that a problem for foreign ownership? No. It's a problem for everybody.

Gus Van Sant

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

Jim Walsh

touches on huge and important issues of foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Cara Black

I read French much better than I speak.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In Franc, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Trent Johnson

We're going into one of the more hostile environments we've seen all year. I'm impressed with Missouri State's team, with how physical they play.

Jitin Prasada

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Patrick Wang

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

John Bolton

whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to U.S. interests.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Hiroaki Takai

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

Peter Bjarkman

They'll be out there tomorrow. They have a killer instinct. They know how to play in these tournaments. When it comes down to one game, they're the toughest team in the world to beat. It doesn't mean they're going to win. The Japanese team's the same way. But they play a similar style of baseball. It ought to be a really interesting game.

Paresh Upadhyaya

The Japanese would like to see a weaker yen. They thought it strengthened too much unilaterally.

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Jane Gardam

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Victor Kubik

This is horrible! Since I've been there, I know the Ukrainian culture. Perhaps I could serve as a translator.

James Garvin

We think other worlds, perhaps other Earths, do exist,

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Rose Macaulay

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Pete Seeger

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Kami Garcia

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Remy de Gourmont

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Dan Quayle

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Kurt Vonnegut

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Donald Trump

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Donald Trump

You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with Saudi Arabia.

Donald Trump

We have to renegotiate our trade deals.

Thomas Sowell

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

Rumi

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.