Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

John Scarlett

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

David Call

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Michael Shaw

The bottom line -- GPS is absolutely critical to our nation's economic well being.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Frank Hancock

The boy did absolutely what you'd want children to do. Quite honestly, he should be commended for the job he did, not criticized for it.

Carrie Martin

The bottom line is we will be clearer. We will make every effort to explain that better. We will be absolutely clear that this is a reimbursement.

Jeff Tedford

Any time a team goes 1-10, their confidence and self-esteem is low, ... You really have to get that back up and believe in one another. That was the main thing. We just tried to take care of that in-house and get our mindset a little bit better to where they felt like they had a trust level that they could play through anything. Then a little bit of success breeds more success and goes from there.

Sathya Baba

Any happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So, you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.

Lance Briggs

As far as this year, our goals are through the sky right now, ... Some of the goals we have right now, a lot of people might think are unattainable or farfetched. We believe with the unit we have put together, we can do it.

Wen Jiabao

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

Mike Holmgren

As he explained to me exactly what happened, I believe I understand what happened. At that point I have made the decision that he will play in the football game.

James Gunn

As for going to the stars, The Listeners concluded that it was inherently impossible and the only contact would be through radio. I believe that this may be true; on the other hand, I still nurse my youthful aspirations to go to the stars, and I think that humanity should pursue it - after all, we have not reached the pinnacle of science and technology.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Irwin Jacobs

As expected, second quarter revenues reflected lower shipments in our chip business, ... However, we believe industry inventories have returned to normal levels and we expect a strong second half with record MSM chip shipments.

Gary Zenkel

As good as (Internet) technology is and the choices it provides, nothing will ever replace the shared experience of watching the Olympics on television. We do believe that.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Jia Qinglin

The Taiwan issue concerns China's core interest and the national feelings of 1.3 billion Chinese.

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Andrew McDonald

It would have a multi-billion dollar impact. $10 billion is not an unreasonable number.

Louie Schwartzberg

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Arkady Volozh

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Michael Eisner

As far as the essential part of our business we're doing great,

David Cheng

A second license in a matter of two weeks further illustrates the potential of our product in Europe, ... The fact that a government-run lottery has chosen to do business with Pegasus Gaming further validates us as a player on the world stage.

Geoff Dupaix

As each city grows and develops, it's important to coordinate signals so that traffic can move as efficiently as possible. It's going to happen in incremental steps. This is just the next step, but it's a very important step because there is a lot of traffic that goes through and around Provo, which is a major business center.

Bruce Kasman

As destructive as past storms have been, they didn't leave an imprint on the U.S. business cycle,

Abbe Lowell

As happens probably dozens of times a week in businesses in New York, the partners have a variety of disputes. And these disputes will work their way out. At the end of the day, Dr. Straus will be found to be a highly skilled, highly competent, highly professional, highly ethical doctor.

Joe Lieberman

A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth,

Mike Cooke

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

Roman Cizdyn

As expected, it's redoing its portfolio to focus on the profitable business and that's why there's a continued collapse in individual pensions. It has to focus on profitability; that's clearly what it's about now.

Javier Solana

As far as we are concerned, ... we have finalized all the planning process and we are ready to act. I think that is clear enough,

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Jack Straw

As far as 'Syria next on the list', we made clear that it is not,

James Rubin

As far as we're concerned, there still are very significant and difficult roadblocks to restarting the peace process. Hopefully we'll be able to clear away some of those roadblocks in Secretary Albright's meetings in London.

Dexter Fletcher

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

Craig Venter

As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.

Michael Ramsey

As a matter of constitutional interpretation, I think the Constitution is pretty clear that property is to be taken for public use and not private use,

Keith Andrews

As a kicker, you don't want to think, ... You can over-analyze any situation. The more I clear my mind when I go out on the field, the better I do.

Stephane Deo

The big rise in future living standards is clearly linked to tax cuts.

Tom Taulli

As a public investor, if you've seen a company do a couple of dividend recapitalizations, be on warning. You may be getting a company that's crippled with debt.

Jacques Rogge

As a surgeon, I've been a customer of your company for all my professional life.

Robert Rossiter

As a stand-alone company it can be a very successful business.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

Scott McNealy

As a pioneer company providing technologies that have led to a digital economy, we can't ignore the difficult issues raised by it. We must tackle these issues -- from encryption to taxation to protecting privacy -- head on if we want to ensure a fair, competitive environment.

David Moore

As a pharmaceutical company you are not going to be interested in producing something that is already available, but you going to be interested in producing something that is better,

Bob Scully

As a young investment banker, you work on very complex merger situations or on some financing situation of company to create more value for shareholders.

Julie Parrish

As a channel-oriented company, Symantec places a high priority on partner feedback.

Gavin Miller

That was a big shot. We really needed somebody to step up so we could get over the hump -- because we tied it a couple of times before that -- and get the lead.

Stephen Forrest

That was a big offensive rebound. That and a couple of big defensive plays may have turned it for us.

Vicki Carle

That was a big key to the match because, boy, if you give them an inch they'll go and get five or six or seven points. We held. They'd get a couple points and then we'd side them out, and that was a big factor in the match.

Norv Turner

Randy's struggling with some things, ... He got hit in the head pretty good. He's got some soreness. I'm pleased that we're getting as much out of him as we are. He gave us some life early, made a couple of plays. I'd like to get him back full time, but that might not happen as soon as we would like.

Bob Hill

Ray did what Ray was supposed to do late. He hit some big shots and we got a couple of stops that were real important.

Barry Hyman

Profit taking will be key words today (Thursday) and over the next couple of weeks. The Fed's rate cut yesterday bodes well for the longer term but near term it is an excuse to take profits. Cisco's story is another excuse to take profits in technology.

Lorraine Jones

Probably in a couple of years we might do it again.

Jason Kerr

Our tempo was good. We were willing to sit down and make a couple extra passes. It showed in our shooting percentage.

Brad Andera

Our seniors had a good couple of days, I'd like to congratulate them. And as for our underclassmen, it's time for them to start thinking about next year.

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Tom Barrett

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.

Chris Patterson

Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

Bob Fox

Think about the people that have maybe 100 horses. That's thousands of dollars for them this year.

Stephen Wood

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

Alex Knott

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing.

Brian Jacques

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Bruce Kovner

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

Richard Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

E. B. White

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

Jim Calhoun

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

Margaret Spellings

This is a temporary situation (and) it's going to be narrowly focused, ... This is not the time to promote a giant national voucher program.

Patrick Craven

Each year on this day we remember and pay tribute to this much loved working-class hero and giant of the national liberation.

John Bunting

As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,

Ed Rendell

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Josh Franco

Today, Mike Giant is no secret to anyone.

Susan Rosenberg

There's something very special about Doris. She is very soft-spoken, but she's a giant of a person.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Madeline Albright

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Richard Herring

So they have to be outwardly directed. And the North American market is the richest market, so its not too surprising that they are making acquisitions here.

Felix Kulov

Russian investors? presence in the Kyrgyz market is vital

Kenneth Sheinberg

Right now the trend is up but we're getting very overbought. The market is susceptible to any pullback.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Right now the market supply for oil is tight.

Fred Dickson

Right now, the market is going through rapid rotation and very little stability in the process of trying to find sector leadership.

David Franklin

Say what you want about Voice of Fire, but it's one of his most important works and would have tremendous market value. It's one of our signature images.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Edward Kennedy

It's a ticket of strength; it's a ticket of hope; it's a ticket of opportunity. It's a ticket for victory, and I couldn't be happier.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.