Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Ron Bonjean

The speaker wrote his letter to the BRAC commission based on sound policy grounds.

DeWhitt Betterson

The thing I liked about Troy is that it seemed like a school that was based on sports. Like a lot of guys around here, I felt like it was a place where I could make my mark.

Chris Steele

The thing I enjoy most about quiz bowl is that it is both a team and an individual competition. Even though you compete as a team, a whole game can change based on the random knowledge of one person.

John Scott

I've likened some of them to traveling musicians, in that some of them might be based in metropolitan centers and they go out and travel -- they tour the bush.

Roy Minton

I've never felt that he was making a decision ... based on his personal feelings of the defendant,

Kevin Selover

Ron White will do just as well as Larry the Cable Guy did. There are a lot of similarities between them.

Jan Dawson

These days, what the cable companies offer and what the phone companies offer is mostly the same.

Mary Murphy

This is really the season we're going to see the knock-down, drag-out fight between cable and between the networks,

Brian Walsh

Each year of the 10 years has been equally competitive for different reasons, ... Those early years were the most competitive in terms of securing subscribers, because in Optus Vision we had someone who was laying cable down in the same streets that we were.

Alfred Amoroso

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Subhash Chandra

Digitisation will rather consolidate the broadcasting industry in India because once the cable is digitized, then naturally all the programmers can showcase their programming.

David Flanagan

You have cable companies out there offering voice service; you have wireless; you have voice-over-Internet protocol. So there are all these other options out there.

Mario Gabelli

The reason it's important is that that's the key to unwinding some of their cable assets, that is, to sell to U S West New Media some of their cable properties in exchange for more flexibility in the corporate structure.

Jim Liberatore

We try to understand what each of us needs. The price was never so high that the cable companies said they would no longer talk.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Jan Runau

The technology isn't perfect yet. We have to be 1,000 percent certain that it works perfectly before we can deploy it in professional soccer games.

Denise Anderson

The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in the short-term it is certainly going to take time.

Amanda Lenhart

The technology is certainly not making it any easier for parents.

Gianluigi Buffon

The team is hurt, but we have a great desire to win. There is certainly not a lot of happiness on this team after what happened to us in the last two games, but I'm always an optimist.

Don Matthews

The team has to get better. I don't know about drastic but certainly we need to play better football than what we're playing.

Jenson Button

The team has done a fantastic job to get us on the front row of the grid and I have to thank them for that. Things were looking a lot less positive yesterday when we were really struggling to find a good set-up. A lot of hard work was done overnight and tomorrow looks promising, but let's wait and see. This is always a tough race but I'm certainly looking forward to it.

Richard Wright

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Ben Gill

No one can pretend that simply re-opening our export channels will undo all the damage which has been done.

Li Datong

I'm very angry. We'll be going through regular channels to appeal.

Chen Shui-bian

This is the right way to open normalized communication channels to normalize relations.

Arnie Owen

People are still concerned about the Asia-Pacific Rim, there are noises from some of the brokerages that PC demand is starting to slow -- that is what's sending investors looking for an alternative place to put their money,

Louis Thompson

The thing the SEC has to be concerned about is if it's fraud --they can't tell analysts how to run their models.

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Kent Willis

School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves.

Jim Haslett

The run defense is something I'm concerned with, and we're going to stress it and keep trying to work on it and do whatever we have to do to fix it, ... great test.

Sen Winters

It was a little on the speedy side. I really do get concerned when we are passing legislation this quickly, and whether we are giving a thorough enough discussion to these issues.

Marcia Miquelon

The security guards were a little concerned about us. We're a guerrilla performance group.

Andrew Engel

The stock market turns down six to eight months before the economy. We're concerned about the stock market and about as defensive as we can get.

Bill Dreher

The stock is manipulated by perceptions of the future, and investors are very concerned right now that the economy is weaker than we thought. Wal-Mart is doing a superb job. On other the hand, the stock is vulnerable.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Erik Gordon

The shopping trip starts at a consumer electronics retailer now, not the mall.

Lara Rhame

I see the trade gap stabilizing, but it's hard to see it narrowing unless you get the U.S. consumer shutting down.

Patrick Newport

The way it hurts is when housing prices peak and then we no longer have this wealth effect that has been driving consumer spending. And so far, housing prices are growing at double-digit rates. But it's going to happen sometime, and we think it's going to happen probably starting in the second quarter.

Michael Oxley

These are strong new protections for consumer privacy.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Jon Evans

Defense is one thing you can always count on. You can't always control whether you'll have a hot shooting night, but you can always play strong defense and tonight was a good example.

Miguel Fuentes

It was very emotional. My part was trying to keep them under control and preventing them from lashing out at him. You could see the expression in their faces, the tone in their language.

Kathleen Blanco

The shelters will end up probably without electricity or with minimum electricity from generators in the end. There may be intense flooding that will be not in our control which would be ultimately the most dangerous situation that many of our people could face.

Robert Hartwig

The state of Florida is living in denial. Florida is not living up to its obligation to control growth and shows no signs of living up to its obligation.

Kevin Garnett

I should have had a little more control than that.

Dan Forsman

I've been pretty sloppy. I've had too much movement. I think I'm more in control now.

Jeff McCracken

I've been at this job for 20 years, and last year, a wet year in its own right, was the first time I ever saw flood control releases on the Fourth of July." ()

Sally Thompson

Things that they do to the Karen people, they will say the Karen are doing. They control the media.

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Michael McGuire

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Orson Scott Card

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Angela Lansbury

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Robert Greene

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

Socrates

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

Mariano Rajoy

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

John Wooden

Forget favors given; remember those received.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Miroljub Labus

There are no financial means in the country.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system,

Robert Kiyosaki

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it

Jeff Byrd

Theres no financial return to us, but its something weve needed for a long time,

Glenn Tilton

The Plan of Reorganization reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built,

Jon Duncan

Nobody likes to talk about it, but if one of them were to lose their life, they'd be in a world of financial hurt.

Chris Kelly

But the urgency of our financial situation requires that we move forward quickly.

Timothy Ghriskey

Obviously very leveraged to the financial markets, ... When stocks are going up, this stock should do better than the market. When stocks go down, it should do worse than the market. So, there is risk here. But, it's the most diversified of the major broker dealers.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

James Allan

It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

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.

Mike Grier

Roy kind of jumped their defenseman. I don't think the defenseman saw him. He was able to pick his pocket and he just threw it out to me. It was kind of just a bang-bang play.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Paul Adams

The race is too tight to pick a winner.

Chris Devine

We were really down losing. This will pick us up.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.