Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Wasmer

The performance of all five Cobalt SS Supercharged cars this weekend, from three independent teams, gives us reason to be proud.

Haan Phelps

We are providing a sanctuary for God's people. You don't hear sirens and police cars going up and down around here.

Dave McKay

We usually watch the traffic as it grows on the roadway. When you are tripping 14,000 cars a day you are probably at a level of service that requires a larger road.

Jason Meyers

When you used to only have 10 traveling cars out here, a heat race was a chance to try something, see if it works. It's not like that anymore. You have to qualify. It's all or nothing there. You have to get out of your heat race, so it's all or nothing there. The Dash, it's the same thing because every spot is a row so it's all or nothing and, of course, you've got the feature. There is never a chance to relax, or a chance to be off one bit. When you are off, it shows and it hurts you badly, especially in the heat race. You just got to be good all night long. You have to stay focused all night, every night, all year.

Luke Mably

I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.

Elliott Sadler

Until we can implement something on the cars with the bumpers or something to weaken the noses up a little bit, this is what we have to live with through Daytona.

Mark Healy

Whether with furniture, fashion or cars -- whenever there are great design elements from the past that can be lifted and updated, they will be. And in terms of branding, whenever car manufacturers can remind consumers of their glory days, that always translates into profit.

Douglas Love

Watch out for those cars owned by salesmen or servicemen. Any educated consumer can look at a car and tell whether it's well maintained. Twenty-to-thirty thousand miles are common (for a rental or fleet car). Look at the odometer and the type of vehicle.

Roger Bailey

We're starting our fifth season of competition, and this is the timeframe we expected to see the growth in the series. We had to establish a foothold, and we've done that. Now we're seeing more drivers and teams who want to compete in the series because we are managing the cost, and we've improved the prize payout. We expect even more cars on the grid when we start the season.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Ken Woods

We're getting people to be consumers of our information. We're telling them what's going to come next and rewarding them as we go on.

Rick Dudley

At a time when rights fees are escalating and sports sponsorship as a first-tier marketing strategy requires greater accountability, it's imperative for marketers to have a tool that can truly help them harness the power of sponsorship to differentiate their brands, grow sales and engage consumers in meaningful ways.

Kurt Barnard

A terrible problem for retailers is that most stores are evoking yawns from consumers, instead of excitement. Retailers just can't keep making the mistake of taking customers for granted by selling ho-hum kind of merchandise. Consumers are looking for unusual and exciting products and they're not finding them.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Peter Cardillo

The perception is turning toward the fact that the economy is slowing and we can still continue to grow even if the economy grows at 5 percent.

Scott Kessler

The point is that Yahoo continues to invest very, very significantly in this area, and is doing good things, and will continue to do good things, which steps up the pressure.

Adam Ereli

Until and unless we can be sure the food we give is really going to those who need it, then we can't continue to provide aid.

Peter Kelly

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

Mark Guibert

We are precluded by law from discussing the substance of that exchange. RIM expects to continue communications through that channel.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Chinua Achebe

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Edith Wharton

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

Scott Harris

It's the nature of the beast, unfortunately. You're doing a lot of calculations and you're displaying a lot of triangles.

Stephen Covey

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Kevin Lynch

When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content.

Leila Janah

FlipBoard is the 'W Magazine' of the iPad-app world. The sleek interface makes content from your friends' Facebook and Twitter feeds much easier on the eyes by displaying them in a magazine format.

Edith Mayo

She was following in the tradition of the first lady displaying this kind of elegance as a statement about the power of the presidency.

Saxby Chambliss

I have a hard time understanding why someone who is so opposed to displaying our most sacred symbol of patriotism would want to join one of our government's most patriotic institutions.

Vikram Seth

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Yvonne Martinez

I just think any mother openly displaying marijuana on the counter, with guns and knives on display, is disgraceful.

Hendy Springer

I'm hopeful that most of the players would have been honing their skills at home with practice sessions or playing in their domestic seasons. So it is just a matter of showing up and displaying their skills.

Austen Arnaud

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.

Arthur Eddington

Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.

Kyle Petty

For all the Dodge Dealers out there, maybe this will put that dreaded Intrepid thing to rest. All the Dodge teams have worked hard to get better, so maybe the Charger is the way we need to go.

Dick Williams

There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.

Dontrelle Willis

I tried to dodge it, but it was on me so quick, and I have a big backside.

Dioner Navarro

It was quite a good experience, a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I wanna thank the Dodgers for letting me be there. It's something I'll never forget.

Joe Torre

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

Ralph Phelps

So much of the waste discarded at the side of the highways can be hazardous to wildlife, streams and motorists themselves trying to dodge it.

Frank McCourt

This is an iconic team in Dodger history. It's not just any other team." ()

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bill Maher

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

Khalid Malik

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

Tom Scott

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

Edward Lazear

We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Stephen Toplis

There is no question the economy is slowing.

William Teets

We're going to do what we can to turn our economy around.

Joseph Battipaglia

What happens with Iraq is very important in January and February to pretty much set the tone for how the economy will fare for the rest of the year. So when we have that answer, then you can get your market direction. In the meantime, you essentially move sideways.

Michael Howard

would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.

Sung Sohn

We're still losing jobs, but the rate of loss is expected to slow, ... That, hopefully, will be viewed that the economy is starting to improve.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Jeff Tageant

We started out kind of slow but we finished strong.

Jessie Evans

We've wanted to do it all year. He just hasn't given us a reason to because he hasn't finished plays.

Jeff Carter

We knew what we had to do. And we went out and finished it off.

Nick Anurak

We knew we were working hard so we knew we could do it. We executed and got it done. We did everything perfect and we got nine champs and everyone placed. That was our goal to get everyone to place and we did. We feel good but we feel incomplete because we are not finished yet. We are out to win the state championship and that's what we're striving for.

George Harrison

As with all of our launches, it's always about making sure product is finished and as good as it can be.

Tod Martin

They made runs, they passed to each other, got it off their feet. Everything that we've been practicing they did, and they finished many opportunities very well.

Paul Peterson

They played very well today. They could have finished more, though. They had a lot of opportunities that went wide, high, over and through. But at least the opportunities were there, and that's something we've had trouble with in the past.

Karen Garmon

They had everything going their way, but our kids stayed focused. Instead of fussing at referees, we finished the game.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Michael Kostelnik

We have scheduled the 15th of May as our targeted launch date,

R. Ingram

a submarine presence able to launch Tomahawk missiles.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

It is unclear whether a round of international trade talks can be launched in 2001, so it wouldn't be right to set a timetable for launching the round now.

Tommy Lee

It's awesome, dude. You can launch a wiener in there.

Mark Rein

Do you when the PS3 launch is? Neither do we. So the question of whether we're a launch title or not is unanswerable because we don't know if the PS3 will be out before we're done or not.

George Peterson

It wouldn't be unexpected that those products wouldn't launch as strongly as otherwise.

Teresa Parker

I've never been on a launch monitor. You have to be prepared.

Chip Ganassi

You're talking about a launch pad for his career,

Susan Meyer

Everything you need to launch a production will be there.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Stephen Baker

This is a major milestone for AMD. This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the U.S. retail market.

Stephen Baker

This is a major milestone for AMD, ... This is the first time that a processor family, other than one manufactured by Intel, led the U.S. retail market.

Craig White

This led us to think outside of the box,

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

Maggie Smith

Defensively, we stepped it up. Our post players were aggressive, and it led to a lot of points in transition.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Larry Harris

At each position we're at least two deep,

Steve Thomas

A councillor's position is not judicial. It's emotional.

Todd Elmer

A lot of this comes on the back of year-end profit taking on what has been a successful position for the market.

Larry Brown

They were exhausted, that was one thing. And two, I didn't want to put them in that position yet.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.

Chad Johnson

It's the position now, the position to play.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Scott Devitt

Right now we're seeing the costs. We don't know what the new products will be.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Shawn Amos

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

Karen Ross

We're working with vendors to tailor products for our members' needs. We view it as a service for our membership.

Tommy Thompson

The time to stop using these products is now,

Scott Kiser

We just put the products out for public comment, and we have what we think is a wonderful new probabilistic product.

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Richard Repetto

A strong quarter pretty much any way you slice it.

Ashley Tuiasosopo

It's the same thing every time we play. We like to think the third quarter is ours.

Bob Wilson

I told the team not to worry about Dewitt's shot. We were still up by two and we still had one more quarter to play.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Anthony Chan

It's a wake-up call. One quarter does not make a trend, but we have to be more on our guard.

Craig Barrett

As expected, second quarter revenue reflected a seasonal slowdown,

Derek Brown

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,

David Wyss

The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.

Jacob Tamme

The second quarter has really killed us in a lot of games.

Laura Barrett

I've never had this reception before. This is just not the way to treat your constituents.

Jimmy Johnson

The reception was a lot more than I thought it would be,

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Paul Stanley

It's one way of showing there are no junkies on patrol.

Leo Atkinson

It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.

Penn Jillette

At least it's showing that words have power.

Craig Brodie

It was a very, very disappointing showing out there.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Alan Vega

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

Pat Fowler

(Counseling centers) aren't going to find it just showing up on their doorstep.

Tyler Browne

When Conor started showing more energy, it flowed over into my court.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Dickens

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Charles Dickens

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....

Charles Dickens

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Brandon Schnittker

We're not going to win the Big Ten championship the way we're playing.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Charles Coody

They told me in the tent there I'd probably get Most Improved.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

John MacArthur

There was a tense atmosphere, ... When the end came, it was very abrupt.