Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Dave Brown

As a company, we will deliver significant productivity improvements in 2006 that will offset a portion of the expected increases for energy-related costs in commodities and transportation across our company. We will maintain our focus on the profitable growth and expansion of our businesses to meet the world's demand for energy-efficient building materials and glass-composite solutions.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

Kevin Rollins

As a management team, we deem this unacceptable and have established aggressive goals and implemented programs designed to drive personal accountability across the entire organization.

Larry Thomas

As an award-winning journalist and media professional, Mike possesses the knowledge, skills and experience to provide clients with solid counsel on how best to deliver content to newsrooms and across other media platforms. With his journalism expertise and stellar accomplishments as a media industry leader, Mike's record speaks for itself. We are honored to have him as part of our team.

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Mike McCue

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

Alexei Sayle

Anyone who saw the undercover work of the BUAV would be appalled and sickened to see the procedures we inflict on our next of kin in laboratories across the UK and in Europe,

Donald Rumsfeld

Anyone who looks at the overhead photography of these poor human beings, amassing into thousands of people trekking across drought-stricken areas, has to be just heartbroken. It is important that we and other countries assist those people,

Robert Wilkes

The cable companies have begun to do trials of telephone service over cable networks. I think this acquisition will speed things up. The combination of AT&T's financial muscle and the advent of Internet based telephony will be the two things that will push that along, and I would think you would be seeing Internet telephony over cable systems in the next three years.

Jim Greenwood

Attracting sufficient equity capital to fund critical research is often a challenging task for the industry. This problem is exacerbated by an outdated tax regime that was largely set in place well before the advent of the modern biotechnology industry. The federal government should lead the effort in providing favorable tax and regulatory environments that will create incentives for economic development and job creation in the life sciences sector similar to the ongoing efforts at the state level.

Thomas Harrison

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Paul Meeks

I've been light on personal computer stocks for some time because of the secular trend which I think is negative towards the PC vendors. I believe units will continue to grow worldwide at about 15 percent per year, but average selling prices, now with the advent of the $200 and $300 box, are stopping like stones, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Lee Sentell

Alabama's outdoor destinations are among the best in the U.S.. Travelers know we have many of the best golf courses in the nation, as well as beautiful gardens and great food. This year, we want to persuade visitors in the Southeast and throughout the nation to experience the adventure and beauty of Outdoor Alabama.

Brian Blessed

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

Brian Blessed

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

C. S. Lewis

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

Jane Smiley

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Mark Dewalt

A one-room country school is not just about education. It builds pride in the community.

J. B. Smoove

'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

Jackson Wong

The weakness in the market is likely to continue next month before it builds up momentum for an upside.

A. S. Byatt

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

Kevin Whately

McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.

J. Taylor

Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites

Sangeeth Peruri

Builds are clearly strong in the cell phone, consumer and PC sectors right now. We'll have to see whether the end demand will support it in the coming months.

P. Parks

My father used to make things a lot. He was always in the shed making things. In Grand Day Out, Wallace builds a rocket, and it reminded me of my dad.

Terry Matterson

Frustration builds up, but that's no excuse. We need to do better defensively.

Ken Banks

As a company, who would you rather lose market share to, yourself or someone else? It is the competitive nature of the business that you watch your competition goes. You either lead or follow, but you always want a share of the market.

Charles Pena

As a company's fortunes fare, so do the CEOs and other top managers, and that is the way it should work in the business world,

Kathleen Hogan

As an ENERGY STAR partner, Marriott has distinguished itself by demanding superior energy performance in their business and seeing real results. Through ENERGY STAR, these Partners of the Year are leading a nationwide effort to protect our environment through improved energy efficiency.

Nikesh Arora

As and when further business models evolve on the mobile devices, we'll deal with that as we go along.

James Packer

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

Carolyn Thomas

As a kid on Saturday night, the streets were full. Now the only business we get is from the (Museum of the Middle Appalachians).

J. Horton

The business we're in is filling our airplanes, and we're going to fill as many of those seats we can.

Mike Moran

The business sector is worse than previously believed. And exports were softer than indicated by initial estimates.

Eric Lascelles

The business sector in Canada continues to grow at a moderate pace.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Larry Usher

These seniors knew that we expected two things from them: commitment and team-first (attitude). These underclassmen know from watching the seniors.

Bryant H. McGill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Jim Tracy

As long as he keeps his focus and continues to realize there is no real opportunity to be satisfied and he maintains that hunger, ... he could wind up being a real good pitcher in the Major Leagues.

Tony Tyler

As our schedule reliability continues to improve we are pleased to be able to resume services to (six) destinations.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Gerald Zukowski

The momentum is there, but it's sporadic. There is no doubt that investment spending continues to move higher.

Maria Ramirez

The momentum (for durable goods) still continues to be pretty robust,

Carolyn Brown

The momentum continues to steady for its sales, and we now expect 'Living History ' to be one of the best-selling non-fiction titles of the year,

Martin Pyykkonen

Demand for optical technology is insatiable. As long as demand continues then think this deal would do well. I don't see demand to let up.

Fadel Gheit

Demand continues to be relatively strong. Supply remains tight. And the global economy seems to be doing OK. As they say, no harm, no foul.

Chris Kelly

Delta continues to respond to the increasing cost pressures on our business, including fuel.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Robin Sorensen

That's just one of the ways the restaurant wants customers to feel important. Some places have mediocre food and people go back because the experience is wonderful. We think we have fantastic food and we have a great experience, too.

Kyle McSlarrow

You would not just be violating the First Amendment, but be hurting the very customers you're trying to help.

Guy Kawasaki

You're looking for chinks in the armor. You're looking for pockets of dissatisfied customers that you can steal from them.

John Walton

You're going to have customers who come in here to steal things. You're not going to stop them. If somebody gets killed in the process of them trying to stop that, it's not worth it.

Brian Black

Young people's schedules are challenging. We're taking it to the customers instead of having them come to the servants.

Jeb Hensarling

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

Colin Clarke

Before we installed Enterprise Vault in 2002, housekeeping in Exchange 5.5 was a nightmare. Recovering old e-mail was impossible.

John Hall

Some Linux people won't like that I'm saying this, but you won't find Linux running on a lot of larger enterprise networks, simply because of its limited processor scalability,

Jim Balderston

To date, much of the penetration of Linux in the marketplace has been in the back room infrastructure space, tying things together at the lower levels of the stack. Such accomplishments are not to be scoffed at, but represent the first step in establishing Linux as an enterprise and market wide technology.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Richard Pierce

This is a huge thrust for us in conjunction with Yahoo!'s enterprise thrust, and we're really happy about that relationship.

Jamie Kiggen

Over the last nine to 12 months, they've been growing into an enterprise software company. Today, we're seeing some growing pains. They are going to grow their top line but there is low visibility as to how rapidly they are going to grow it.

Denis Simonneau

France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.

Francois Jacob

Evolution is a tinkerer.

Jello Biafra

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Eric Church

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

Steve Willis

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

Herbie Hancock

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

John Ambrose Fleming

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution is no longer necessarily progressive; it no longer strives toward perfection or any other goal. It is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

John M. Smith

Evolution is great, but I still like bananas.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Larry Brown

Antonio would be in a lot more trouble if he went home and hadn't done anything.

Steve Ellis

Anything that isn't nailed down, they pick up and take home to their districts.

Gopal Ahluwalia

The size of a home can't keep increasing. I think we'll see the size stabilize at 2,400 square feet.

Carl Pope

The senators go home and find out, if they vote for this stuff, then the voters are going to be upset. Their own voters don't like it.

Bob Reed

The sellers will have to get more realistic to the market in what they can actually sell their home for.

Jon Evans

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Andrea McLean

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

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.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Al Franken

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Baltasar Gracian

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Ed Miliband

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Dirk Benedict

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Stewart Hall

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Miley Cyrus

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

Suze Orman

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

Simone de Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Sophie Kinsella

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

Swoosie Kurtz

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Marilyn Manson

The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

Mason Cooley

Supermarkets depict abundance; boutiques exclusiveness; roadside stands authenticity.

Margaret Mahy

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Simon Bird

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

Ben Okri

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Ayn Rand

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

Benito Mussolini

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Benito Mussolini

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Jane Goodall

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Jane Goodall

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Jane Goodall

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

Jan Morris

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Janet Napolitano

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.