Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manmohan Singh

Any redrawing of the international borders is not something that is going to be acceptable to us.

Sherwood Schwartz

As a man who tried to explain in his own way that people have to learn to get along with each other. I did it with comedy because that's what I'm familiar with, and I think it's more acceptable to tell it in comedy form. But that's how I'd like to be remembered.

J. A. Konrath

The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

Robert MacIntosh

Banks, bond investors and equity investors will ratchet down their idea of what's normal and acceptable as far as earnings and cash flows go,

Alan Peterson

As long as there aren't any tie votes, it's acceptable to leave that seat open, ... It appears to be causing no problems.

Martin Reynolds

A single-provider solution may be acceptable today, but enterprises must make long-term plans to guard against possible loss of service. If BlackBerry users do not have confidence in the level of redundancy RIM offers, they may need to consider alternative providers.

Les Moonves

Radio -- which has extremely valuable assets -- is our one segment that is not yet achieving acceptable growth. We have implemented a number of recent initiatives to change that, including the new Jack and Spanish formats which have shown good success. And we believe this week's announcement to add a powerful new morning show will greatly improve the performance of our drive-time programming in the nation's largest east-coast markets.

Greg Sorbara

Our advisors informed you on July 27, 2005, that the plan outline does not meet the province's stated objectives for a successful Stelco restructuring and, therefore, is not acceptable to us.

Chris White

People expect a system to work 100% of the time; it is no longer acceptable to have downtime even for maintenance.

Greg Amodio

The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a Duquesne basketball game is not the fashionable thing to do. We haven't given our fans much to cheer about recently.

Lisa Norberg

Our computer basics and Web basics series continue to be most popular, but we've also had good attendance at some of our more subject-oriented classes, everything from finding health information to conducting genealogical research.

Bud Selig

The sport is having its greatest year, ... We're going to top 54 million people in attendance (Saturday), and we could come close to 55 million by (today). We're at a stunning attendance pace.

Scott Stephens

E2V also creates a new type of sponsorship opportunity for leading companies tired of the old methods. We believe that over the course of the year, event organizers of E2V-covered events will find attendance numbers increasing. Our product will help shape networking in the local business community and bring balance to executives' schedules.

Jake Gold

Attendance is way, way up, and I think part of that is the success of the Idols themselves.

Tom Lindly

We think right now, attendance looks pretty good.

David Parry

If anything, my high school has even better attendance today than some Mondays.

E. Hicks

If we get our attendance up around 3 million, things could change,

Randy Mayes

Because the average daily attendance is closer to our I think we have a greater chance of success.

James St. James

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.

Sharon Stone

As for Kate Moss, I understand that she has apologized and is changing her life and I think that that is the most important thing.

Toshihiko Fukui

As for the short run effects, exchange rate movements influence the economy through changing relative prices between goods at home and abroad.

Haruki Takahashi

As consumers are clearly changing their spending attitude, the retail sector may continue to benefit.

O. J. Simpson

As city people move out to these suburbs, the days of pure Republicanism are over. There is a tidal wave that's changing the politics out there.

David Fisher

As our lives become increasingly mobile, we are looking to new and emerging technologies to support our ever changing lifestyles. This competition promises to uncover a tremendous level of innovation in terms of contemporary design and next generation mobile applications.

Jeff Corbett

Radio is changing dramatically. This feels like the loss of a friend that you knew you could always count on and now they won't be there.

Tom Taylor

Radio always adapts to reflect changing tastes and demographics,

Matthew Parry

Prices have been supported by the ongoing geopolitical concerns (particularly Nigeria), colder weather and higher gasoline prices (which are rising on the changing U.S. petroleum-blending specifications).

Charles Albert Gobat

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

P. J. O'Rourke

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Allan Houston

Going at this intensity is new, so I'm going to have to just continue to adjust.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Arturo Gonzalez

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Kurtis Blow

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

David Garrett

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

Citizen Cope

If I condone that kind of journalism, she's going to be in Iraq one day, so is that how she's going to prepare for something of importance?, ... If someone comes in and is not familiar with what I'm doing, then they're doing me a disservice and themselves and their readers.

Tom Schwartz

People who suggest or might suggest that we remove the plaque, it does a disservice to the historical record. You don't rewrite history because of what exists here and now. History's there to interpret for hundreds of years down the road.

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.

Mark Harnly

He's (Davis) tough, and he'd be real fun to watch if I was sitting in the bleachers and scouting, but he's not real fun when he's dropping 21 on you.

David Wright

He seems to be the one to always drop the hammer.

Buddy Bell

He's dropping a few pounds and starting to look better. He's got a ways to go.

Kate Warne

I think we are seeing a little follow-through from the election ... but, overall, the market has been pulled down by the drop in oil prices more than anything else.

Ernie Accorsi

I was just overwhelmed with not only his story but the way he told it. He's such a thoughtful, intellectual, moving person. You could hear a pin drop in our interview room when he was done telling us a story.

O. Singh

Hopefully, this is the last one. If you make one mistake, it's so easy to drop one, two, maybe three shots here.

Richard Garnett

He was fabulous, ... It was kind of like, when the word got out that Roberts was arguing, people would drop what they were doing and go watch because it was going to watch a real craftsman.

Cameron Edens

I didn't want to go if we couldn't go as a team. Plus I had been missing a lot of school and if I had missed any more, they could have dropped me from some classes, and I didn't want that to happen.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Eric Davis

We've got to think about everything possible that there is to think about. We have got to turn over every stone, and look into the future to find out what's waiting for us. What can physics do ... where should physics be going?

Craig Patrick

He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.

William Winwood Reade

And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

Wernher von Braun

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Robert E. Howard

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

W. S. Gilbert

It didn't get high enough to ruin any files.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Dave Lewis

I'm trying to get my message out without spending a lot of money.

J. A. Konrath

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

Phil Garner

I have not seen him. I have messages that he sent to other people.

H. Hunt

The messages can be tailored to how the parameters are defined.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your life is your message.

Bill Schwartz

It's way too soon to know whether this was drug related, whether this was some sort of retaliation for something, whether this person just wanted to send a message or whether he was out to kill someone.

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Mayor Iwuc

Better than the minimum qualifications outlined in the charter. Not only do I want the best-qualified chief, I want the best.

Paul Hatcher

We try to press offensively and defensively. At times, it seems to wear the other team down.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Richard Scrushy

This is a lie, ... They are using the press to put their spin on things.

Chris Bosh

It's real important but I don't put too much pressure on myself.

Elliott Sadler

It's ungodly . . . the pressure that we get as drivers,

George Phillips

It will provide another way to and from Route 7 and relieve pressure on 641.

John Pierce

It was in the press much as it is today with the war that's going on now.

Doug Schoen

It was like, I'm O.K. with this, but if you press me, I have some doubts.

Nic Pizzolatto

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Tre Cool

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Travis Barker

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

Travis Barker

My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.

William Friedkin

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Bashir Ahmed

This is a good-will gesture, ... Today is a start and we will send a lot more aid.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.