Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

Gilles Frydman

Have you ever seen a company that offers two services, one free and the other paid, provide as good a service to the free one? It is guaranteed that the quality of service for those who do not pay will go down.

Peter Conte

Having said that, the verdict for the company does not mean these employees were wrong to express their concerns. It's important for employees to feel that their concerns are addressed through meaningful action.

Jack Warner

I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.

Brian Williams

Katie is a friend of many years, and a gifted broadcaster. While I am losing her as an NBC News colleague, I am gaining an able new competitor. I want to welcome Katie to the evening shift and I look forward to competing with my friend as we all continue to cover the stories that matter, all over the world, each night, for years to come.

Hugh Nall

Joe Cope is still the starting center. I'm going to rotate J.P. in there to get as many reps as I can with the Duckworth factor keeping him out of there. But he's competing for a starting job.

Vinnie Currao

I think it is a great thing that we've got all these guys competing for starting positions. It keeps everybody on their toes and sharp. When you are rebuilding a team like we are, you need to take a good, long look at as many players as you can to find the right combinations.

Troy Carnes

What you saw tonight was the result of some seniors determined to go out competing at the highest level.

Howard Skolnik

I think that what we've got is a boutique-type operation. If we could get into a large chain, that would be awesome, but somehow I can't see us competing with Levi Strauss.

Kirk Hinrich

We have to be able to make adjustments during the game. When things aren't going as well as we would like them to, we (need) to come together as a group and start competing harder ? that's when you should start fighting harder.

Matt Cohen

I actually love competing away. The team is all together, there are no distractions, we stay in the hotel together, we eat together and go to the gym together. It's sort of like you are invading someone else's territory.

Jim Tracy

He was the type who got everything he could out of his ability. And the reason he did that was his intelligence level and a set of personal expectations that were higher than guys he was competing against.

Deborah Fallows

For men, it's just, 'Give me the facts. For women, it's 'Let's talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?' It's keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.

Jan Denise

When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk gives off a wonderful aroma. The refrigerator has something in it I feel good about eating. When I am me, I can see me in my day. I am writing. I am talking from a heart of love. I am reviewing my notes, or editing, or walking, or something outside. I am connecting with nature and people.

Geoff Mayfield

I know at least two major distributors think the gap will get wider before the end of the year. There has been softness in the top 10 throughout the year, and in most weeks, it didn't take as much to be in the top 10 as it did in 2004. The music is not connecting with consumers the way it did last year.

Rick Jackson

I never met a man that more personified the ideas of a Southern gentleman. And I've never heard another radio man who was better at connecting with his listeners.

David Horowitz

You can't read a story about me in a leftist journal without connecting me to right-wing funding and this and that. Why don't they just deal with the issues?

Dick Enberg

The ecstatic leap of two years ago ? smiling and subtle today. Phil Mickelson, at 35, connecting his personal legacy with the legends and tradition of The Masters.

Norbert Young

The combination of these two offerings delivers a powerful, comprehensive solution to members of the design and construction community. This is just one more way that we are enabling our customers to work faster, smarter and better by connecting people, projects, and products through the McGraw-Hill Construction Network.

Sean Dockery

Everyone is connecting out there. It's a great way to play.

Gary Thomas

Connecting on DART isn't much of a problem. It's bridging the (financial) gap and how you're going to pay for it.

Bill Carson

I think it's going to have a huge impact on the city. Sure, the day of the race is going to be exciting, but the exposure we get through the coverage will be invaluable.

Kelly Holcomb

I think that got us going. It was the second third down of the game. I knew I had man coverage and just had to get it out of my hand and get it to Lee.

Montae Reagor

We've earned the right to be there, so you've got to enjoy the moment in the moment. It's good to see all the media and all the coverage because we've worked hard and it's been a long journey, but it has been fun.

Angie Cox

I will say that this year has been our best. Our events and group have had more coverage and people are learning more about who the Women of Flower Mound are and what we do for our community.

Bill Bradley

I am going to replace Medicaid with something better, ... Some 40 percent of minorities do not have coverage (under Medicaid). They would be covered.

Satya Pradhuman

Research coverage is very thin. .. so this is a truly small, undiscovered segment of stocks .

Deion Sanders

Playing the nickel, it allows me to show a little more versatility, ... I've never been in the position where I've blitzed on occasion, but now I can do either or. Drop into zone coverage or man, or blitz. It's going to be something.

Mike Singletary

Playing coverage isn't about speed. It's about technique and studying film. Jeff Ulbrich understands that. He's the ears and eyes of the defense.

Mike Riley

Pass defense starts with a rush and then good solid coverage down field after that. We feel we have a lot of good people who can take us where we want go.

Calvin Andrews

Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with Denver and New Jersey, however all our real focus was on resigning with the Bobcats.

Julius Peppers

Pittsburgh? Nah, I'm not surprised. Pittsburgh is a tough team, just like us. I'm not surprised by that. And Denver -- they're 13-3. And Seattle? Nah, no surprise. And yeah, we expected to be here.

Jim Shires

In the back seat, we found items that had been taken from a courier truck stolen in Denver on March 6.

Lynn Brown

In its first year of operation, the Denver project has seen an 18 percent increase in recycling.

Gary Kelly

It?ll be good for Southwest to get back to Denver after 20 years. I can tell you our employees are very excited. They are over the top about this.

Brian Waters

They just needed an upgrade. I think they saw an opportunity to upgrade with Cleveland. Denver saw an opportunity to get some parts that were better than the parts they had.

Devin Brown

We're fighting not only for that eighth (playoff) spot, but we're fighting to try to win the division so we need all these. Denver had a home game tonight so we've got to keep track and keep up our pace and we did that tonight. We were able to fight back and we ended up pulling out a great win.

Jim Jennings

Denver would be one of our key cities, for sure, ... especially with this facility.

Norv Turner

Denver is an outstanding football team, they are a very good offensive team and outstanding on defense, they deserved to win this division. Our guys fought and competed, but we just weren't able to match what they were able to do.

Jim Gibbs

Jim was a jokester, a great guy and a private pilot. He took flying seriously, that was his passion.

Richard Branson

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

Joker Phillips

He's flying around and looking like his old self.

Kevin Finan

I don't fly as much as I'd like to, but it's one of my passions.

Kyle Wright

He is just flying by guys this spring and making plays.

Andrew Walpole

He'll miss the test and fly to the United Kingdom tomorrow to see a specialist. His availability for the remainder of the tour will be reassessed.

Sarah Brightman

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

Vince McMahon

It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

Scott Ostler

Play it straight, come out with the simple truth: He was abducted by space aliens, taken aboard their flying saucer and subjected to various probes.

Dan Shechtman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Bob Olson

The new frontier is back-office processing done offshore.

Jeff Hill

It's a new frontier for us, and it's good for us to know. Everything's connected. We need to protect what was given to us by our creator.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.

Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

David Hernandez

Frontier is trying to work with us and they have been very responsive to our situation.

Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Martin Appel

The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot more weapons than just her.

Don King

After that, we have offers from just about every place in the world.

Bill Ward

It offers sensible, practical advice, in an easy-to-read format.

Pope Francis

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

Jason Lewis

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Alford

He's fine. If he had to play today, he would probably have to tape it and go. But he's going to be 100 percent by Friday.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

John C. Maxwell

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Keith Ashdown

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

William Safire

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

Virender Sehwag

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

Woodrow Wilson

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.