Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Rozenich

Based on McDonald's business performance, shareholders have demonstrated continued confidence in McDonald's management and strategic direction,

Bill Harlow

Based on lessons learned from the Deutch matter,

Joan Miles

Based on information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, we had no reason to believe the ammonia would permeate the packaging, so we determined that the food was still suitable for human consumption.

Rod Shealy

At the end of the day, voters will judge him based on his excellent performance in office, not on speeding tickets.

John Lutz

Doctors are under significant pressure since 1991 to do as much or more based on fewer dollars.

Nancy Becker

could be based on a legally insufficient theory of law.

Meir Soloveichik

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

Abby Cohen

Corporations in the United States continue to generate good profits. Stock prices are below where they might be based upon the fundamentals for 2005.

Peter Barris

Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.

Dennis Smith

We all knew it was going to slow down sooner or later. The cycle is on the downward slope of the peak, but we're going to be OK.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Jason Chaffetz

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Scott Trost

Adair is a really quality player who is tough to defend. And they have good shooters on the perimeter.

Sibel Kekilli

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

Odalis Perez

Strike one, strike two. Good location - hitting spots. If you throw strikes, guys have to swing. That's what happened.

Jim Sullivan

Strictly speaking it's not that the stock market views good news as bad, directly.

Chris Squire

Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Shane Reid

St. Paul was a good fundamental team. Every time we would get close, they would hit a three-pointer to widen their lead.

Jerry Moore

Some things got loose last year, and that's my fault. I take responsibility for that. But I feel good about these players. I know what kind of kids we've got. I know what they want to accomplish.

Paul Ross

Some people have a talent and want to strut their stuff and show how good they are.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Anthony Hopkins

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Anthony Hopkins

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Alison Bechdel

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alicia Keys

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Alice Walker

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Alice Cooper

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

Andy Roddick

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

Alastair Campbell

Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair]-Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Albert Finney

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.