Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sizwe Kupelo

As a department we cannot allow a situation where our patients are put at risk.

Chuck D.

The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that this situation can be resolved by allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves,

Chris Kingsley

As long as we can dedicate the money to specific items like the roads or pavement management, I think it will allow us to fund other projects in the not too distant future, which actually is right now. Because the more we wait, the more it's going to cost.

Andrew Friedman

As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field to save the patient's life or limb. From there, they are transferred to Germany to help them stabilize, clear the infection and allow the wound to heal a bit,

Robert Miller

As part of Paul Hastings global corporate strategy, we are expanding our transactional capabilities in all regions in which we operate, especially throughout our offices in London, Milan and Paris. Keith Wilson's years of experience and expertise in asset lending complements our international finance practice and will allow us to further meet our clients' needs.

Robert Altman

as long as I last and as long as people allow me to do it.

Reggie Sanders

As long as I can play three weeks or so (before the postseason), that would be OK. That would allow me to get the at-bats I want to, hopefully, get back where I was.

Lennart Wistrand

As it turns out, these crashes are not exploitable but are instead Windows performance issues that could cause some WMF applications to unexpectedly exit. These issues do not allow an attacker to run code or crash the operating system. They may cause the WMF application to crash, in which case the user may restart the application and resume activity.

Richard Snow

As our research clearly shows, companies have focused too heavily on technology in their contact centers and haven't paid enough attention to key process and performance measurement changes. Companies need to properly evaluate their customer-facing processes and provide call center representatives with supporting technologies that allow them to execute processes that improve operational effectiveness. Only in this way can they raise customer satisfaction and generate new business opportunities.

Kofi Annan

Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,

Kathleen Sebelius

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Ma Jun

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

Jeb Bush

Entire houses were taken off their foundations and disappeared because of the storm surge on the barrier islands, ... These are newly built luxury homes that don't exist right now. That's pretty powerful.

Hugh Williams

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

Ray King

Baseballs haven't changed. They've been the same color for years and years. Now there is not really a color barrier in baseball the way there was back then. So let's recognize the guys that played the game the right way and deserve the recognition that they're getting.

Stu Jackson

At the end of the day, what we had to decide on was the issue of Antonio breaking the barrier from the court into the stands.

Doug Aitken

Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.

Gregory Carter

Common sense tells you that the more frequent these storms are the worse off we are all going to be and certainly the worse off the barrier islands are going to be. These islands had quite a long time to recover after Hurricane Camille. Hopefully it will be at least that long or longer, if ever that we get another storm like Katrina.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Jane Johnson

Our customers down there are seeing their businesses expand and our opportunities are growing in the region.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

Mayor Amabile

The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.

Howard Davidowitz

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

Dan McClain

Putting Gulf Coast businesses back to work, including the largest employer in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, is an essential step in putting the region and its citizens' lives back together.

David Larsen

Quite frankly, I don't see any criminal intent. Businesses fail all the time.

Steve Mills

The role we're trying to play in the ASP world is principally selling to companies that want to be ASPs. We'll sell hardware, software and services expertise to help make businesses successful.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

David Kerr

Buyers are looking for a deal. It does not necessarily mean there are any deals out there. A well-priced house still sells at a premium even in a transitional market.

John Silvia

Home buyers need something visible on-screen to surprise them, ... If it's the dollar gradually losing another 10 percent or mortgage rates creeping up 1 percentage point, that's not going to do it.

Piers Handling

Which is why they're in the large venues like the Ryerson and the Elgin. The press screenings are actually happening after their world premiere so the key press, the key buyers are in those public screenings and that is important.

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

Richard Cripps

I think it's more a result of a fear of buyers being left behind.

Michael Marks

All of those buyers are looking to the West Coast. East Coast demand could make prices here go up, but you've got to understand that we've never experienced anything so devastating. It's hard to know how the market is going to react.

Walter Molony

It's not like all of the buyers fell off a cliff. There are still people in the market during this time, just fewer. Some people think it's a great time to buy or sell.

John Karevoll

There isn't a sense of urgency in the market. Buyers don't feel they need to stretch (finances) the way they felt before.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

George Moore

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

John B. Hood

A vast majority of the votes have to do with policy matters, for which your member has one vote out of 120. It's (a new lawmaker) unlikely to dramatically change anything.

Mike Parsons

As often does happen, new head coaches like to come in a make their marks. One of the things he wanted to do was change the helmet.

Karl Frieden

As long as Congress doesn't change the rules of the game, there's only so far the states can go.

Sung Sohn

A slight decline should not change the picture that much, ... If you look at the fundamentals, despite all the negative news, consumers are in pretty good shape. The jobless rate is pretty low, and their net worth is going up because house prices going up.

Trevor Pryce

As long as I've been here, ... I've never seen one play change a game like that.

M. Wolfe

As long as I own it, I retain the option to change the color,

Kaley Cuoco

As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Sean Snaith

Developers see no sign of a 'bubble' bursting.

Gurpal Samra

Developers come in, they build, then they leave. But we have to live here, so we wanted to name the streets.

John Powers

The software development kit enables developers to grid-enable their applications very easily,

Ken Brown

We have developers in this town who have been here forever. And the whole thing about vested rights is, they don't like to change. They don't understand change. God, I wish they would.

Steve Ballmer

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Michael Reed

New developers really have to do something special to get people to see what they're doing. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Soma Somasegar

Historically, we focused on the independent developer. We wanted to make such developers highly productive. Visual Studio 2005 is no different.

Mary Reed

When developers would come into the neighborhood they'll understand what the rules of the game are. So we'll be in the driver seat.

Anita Sarkeesian

Developers need to start moving away from the entitled macho-male power fantasy in their games. They need to recognize that there are wider stories that they can tell.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Meg Whitman

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce

Gillian Anderson

I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.

Harry Ponfil

If eBay wants to get a hold of you, it will pop up when you sign in there.

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Pierre Omidyar

The interesting thing was, I started eBay off as a hobby so it was free of charge.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Deborah Scott

I wanted to do something to enhance the park that the kids would be able to use and enjoy. I meet a lot of mothers that go to other parks because there's not much to do at Orchard Park.

Joan Chen

The factory that I work with, all the products are on the shelf, they are existing products. I can go and enhance it. The perfume is 60% mine.

Eric Schmitt

Microsoft has to figure out a way to use the network to enhance their software. They can link to dictionary.com or thesaurus.com instead of bundling those features into Microsoft Word.

Deniz Anders

We're always looking for a way to enhance service.

Elizabeth Spelke

Knowing this, we may be able to enhance math training.

Jamie McLennan

I think it's good. It puts us on a stage with every other sport that's major. People who know hockey know there really is not a place in hockey for steroids. I'm sure there are things you want to enhance your performance, but I think at the end of the day you'll see we are clean.

Ray Stevens

They do a lot of things to help us enhance the visitor's experience,

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

Michael Eisner

We are keeping our eyes open, ... We are happy with what we got with the Fox Family acquisition. We will keep looking but we are not going to do it to get a good headline in the media. If we are going to do anything at all it will be to enhance the company.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Veronica Corpuz

It would leave the producers and our patrons in a fix and we don't want to jeopardize the experience for anyone.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Deborah Moggach

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Sherilyn Fenn

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

Robert Brown

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

Andrea Kay

She now has the luxury to explore her next step, because she got this package.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Burt Rutan

Mankind does need to move away from where we are to explore somewhere else.

Julie Kavner

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Janet Reno

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

Marnie Stern

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

Joe Given

It was a nice growing perk for her. I told her location is everything. In that situation, she didn't miss one pitch.

Ben Holmes

Is it pricey? Probably. But it may be a small price to pay if they keep growing at their present rate or even faster.

Lauren Freedman

The whole notion of alternative payments is really growing as an industry.

Joe Monahan

The window on that is growing short, too.

Scott Morrison

This is an independent, self-sustaining industry that is growing (at) more than twice the rate of the pharmaceutical industry. It is here to stay.

Susan Aspey

This is the first time for everyone. There are going to be some growing pains.

Mark Kelly

This is something we've yearned for. We were kind of growing out of our skin here.

Dwane Casey

That's growing pains. Hopefully Marcus will learn from it; nobody was trying harder than he was.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

John James

I've seen more potential in the last six months than in the last six years. Nothing in real transactions have closed, but there are a lot of interested parties circling.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Nolan Ryan

You never rule things like that out. We would be interested in seeing where the (Marlins) ownership is on that.

Vinny Cerrato

and we're not interested in making a trade.

Rachel True

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Anatoly Chubais

And yet we must be ready to get into next winter without major failures.

Rossi Ralenkotter

Even just the slippage of one or two conventions can have a major impact.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Michael Bamberger

I was unsure what the right thing to do was, but the more I thought about it, I would have been upset with myself if I didn't say something.