Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Goebel

Any time I can use my talents to benefit others, I am happy to do so. I hope that the event helps families care for their loved ones.

Robert Chapman

Any industry that suffers skills shortages should take responsibility for marketing themselves in such a way that students see the benefit of developing a career in that sector,

Katie O'Brien

A secondary benefit is if you spend a couple hours cleaning up a park, you're going to think twice before you litter.

Dick DeVos

As a state, we have to engage the global marketplace. There is no alternative, no choice but to go out and win. The antagonists to this position see it as either/or -- either you invest in China or invest in Michigan. Most businesses do both. If your sales increase in any part of the world, the folks back home benefit.

Tom Richards

As consumerism continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, our goal is to continue to give consumers more choices and more control over their health care decision-making. CIGNA Custom Benefit Builder is an industry-leading next step in extending to health care benefits the same kind of choice and personalization that consumers increasingly enjoy for many other types of purchases they make.

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

John Spinello

Right now, the market is well bid and it will take time or some more significant event to make people want to sell.

Sean Monaghan

The winning bid will have to be well-rounded.

Rick Page

This isn't just about getting bids from companies that are ready to supply right now. If we like someone's product, even if they only have two employees, we'll work with them and show them how they can gear up to supply us.

John Copeland

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

John Loyd

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

Mark McCutcheon

Even if he comes in there is not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there is not much upside to it." ()

Bruce Baird

During the Olympic process, I was approached by a third party who claimed to represent IOC members. He was certainly known well with the Olympic movement, and he said we wouldn't win the bid unless we provided commercial endorsements,

Sharad Pawar

We have decided to make a joint bid for Asia.

Bill Sullivan

Everything has combined to push prices to new heights and if and when stock markets capitulate, you will have a tremendous bid for Treasuries.

Michael Specter

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.

Jess Blackburn

As far as their marketing goes, that's marketing. We continue to have a very solid relationship with Intel and nothing has changed in that respect. We probably are their largest customer; we shipped 10 million systems in the fourth quarter. I don't think any supplier is going to ignore a customer that is building that many systems and using that many of their parts in them.

Jim Norris

As early as next spring we will be building two fields. One will be a championship stadium field. It will be lit and seat 2,000.

Scott Adams

As a rule, anything in a binder has very little value, except as building material.

Todd Heap

As a whole offense, we saw what we're capable of. Now, we just need to go and build off that.

Rob Kurz

As a big guy, that's your goal every game, to try to get a double-double. Hopefully, I can build on that.

Howard Moore

As a freshman, he should be proud of that and build on that.

Tim Evans

The bulls are trying to put up a fight here, trying to make a case that the build in stocks and the drop in price over the past month haven't really hurt all that bad.

Naohiro Niimura

The build is quite huge, and that's having an impact on the market today. OPEC has no reason to cut production as long as prices remain near $60.

Chester Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder

Susanna Kearsley

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ... Wages and costs are going up in China. The economy is already past its peak. This is no longer the easy money you had in 2002 and 2003.

David Marshall

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Don Pether

Profitability was negatively impacted by significantly higher costs for purchased slabs, raw materials and energy and a significant drop in market pricing.

Edwin Slaghekke

Production costs have now become the most important factor for oil companies. They will drag down the shares.

Anne Mulcahy

Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower costs and operational improvements. We delivered another quarter - and another year - of earnings growth.

Ron Dennis

Norbert's frustration is if it costs us the constructors' championship it is not particularly nice,

Brian Giorgis

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Jesse Moore

December 20th was the last time we had any appreciable rain. We had about a quarter-inch over the area. That wasn't enough to help that much.

Paul Dergarabedian

November and December are pound-for-pound just as important as the summer, ... You see about 20 percent of the gross for the year in about seven or eight weeks. And this year looks to me to be a strong finish to a year that has really had its ups and downs.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

Following a request from its sponsor (the ESA), the launch has been put back from December 26 to December 28.

Kevin Honea

We had a similar motorcycle fatality in that exact same spot on December 4. The tire tracks for the two were only about a foot apart. It is a negotiable, well-marked curve, however.

Kurt Kawafuchi

What it shows at the end of December is the economy is very strong.

Amy Hunsaker

We were just discussing in the locker room that now is not the time in the season to be giving up points. That was back in December and January. We talked about playing with confidence. I reminded them that they were the defending region champs.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it's going to get tougher, I think, in the second half because of the schedule and the Olympics. So, I think, right now, we're making the most of a good schedule for our team. I think we have only four road games in this month, and then December is tougher for us. But definitely after the Olympic break, we have a tougher schedule. But the way we're going now, I don't think we should slow down and we just have to keep pushing ourselves every night and keep trying to improve to be better.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Neal Katyal

authoritative decision to stop people from rioting in the streets.

Chris Anderson

At some point, I made the decision to live and go on. I'm grateful for where I am today, but the price I paid was too great.

Troy Glaus

A year ago, it would have been a lot different. But I saw all their moves go by on the ticker. That made the decision pretty easy.

Joseph Shatz

As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely left the door open for more rate hikes.

Trent Yawney

A smart decision on his part. We're talking about a professional in a field where shoulders are important.

Steve Carter

As individuals, they can make the decision to self-insure, but as an advisor, it is unthinkable. They should purchase health insurance before they do anything else.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Dave Williams

It was the selling point when people went to vote to preserve green space.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

Becky Graff

Things will really green up around here now.

Troy Vincent

This could only happen in Green Bay. Only the Packers could sell out a scrimmage game.

M. Wolfe

That's his accomplishment and no one thought that would happen in Green Bay, Wisconsin. And that's my sense of pride right there.

Sol Campbell

You've just got to be resolute in those situations. Hopefully, we'll get the rub of the green next time.

Guy Dupuis

You still want to play your position. But if you see an opening, you do have the green light to jump in and (try to score). You don't want to make a habit out of it every shift, though. You still want to play your position because you know your (defensive) partner is probably going to be thinking the same thing as you (and try to score).

John Nolan

An Irishman would probably turn around and run if you offered him green beer.

Rich Irr

Bridget knows she has the green light from outside. She did an outstanding job.

Jeremy Duxbury

A sponsorship is on line and we will not let it down.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Dawn Olivieri

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Paul Taibi

People say we are a one-line team because that one line is so dominant. We have some high-profile players, but we have more than just those people. It's a total team effort.

Carolyn Wright

People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are not alone.

Barry Trotz

The moons didn't line up that way ... That's neither here nor there.

Steve Johnson

Defensively, (Penn) took us out of our game. They didn't give us anything free, and when you go to the line only (three) times and them 17, that's a difference, too. But it was their defense. They just took us out of our rhythm.

Mike Tannenbaum

Anthony is an experienced veteran who provides our offensive line with flexibility and depth.

Sam Nunn

a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Kurt Cobain

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.