Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Purpura

I think you'd have to chain him down to keep him from starting.

Patrick Ho

We suspect that initiatives within its manufacturing operations and a more streamlined supply chain are just part of the reasons for the improved margin profile.

Anthony Chan

I think a seasonal factor is part of the issue here, but you can't discount it all. Look at what is happening with chain store sales. They've been pretty weak. Some of it (weak retail employment) is real.

Scott Burns

I think a lot of the problems they've been having with?supply chain bottlenecks?look like they've kind of worked their way through the system.

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Saxby Chambliss

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

Dion Buhman

There are now Web sites that sell directly to the grower. This bypasses the distribution chain that makes up our core business.

Two Chainz

Chain hang to my ding-a-ling, chain hang, chain hang to my ding-a-ling

Mark Vigoroso

Our research shows that 83% of leading companies indicate field service optimization is core to improving their competitive positions. True field service optimization requires service organizations to maintain the most cost-effective, productive, and profitable service chain at all times -- especially in the face of a myriad of constraints and interruptions.

Ryan Sims

There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general consensus doesn't provide the details needed for funding, so we are collecting this data to solidify the consensus into a concrete form.

Walt Kyle

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,

Ron Moody

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Tracy Byrd

Our Labor Day concert has taken on a larger meaning with the devastation of the hurricane. The show is still free, but we encourage our fans to give as much as they can spare to the Red Cross volunteers who will be collecting at the concert,

Robert Hartman

In 2005, we ended up $400,000 in the red. We were not collecting for the costs the co-op had. It just wasn't a stellar year.

Chris Burns

I just started collecting them and writing on them and learning how to place photographs on them.

Billy Beane

I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanford. He's a great player, but he's also a great kid. He's the kind of guy you'd like to have as your son, just a really impressive young man.

Marty Turco

I'm not really forgotten. I'm out there collecting the wins, so that's fine with me.

Gary Hirshberg

The force of commerce got us in this mess and its the only force that will get us out,

Salar Kamangar

Nothing that we are doing is at all focused on commerce or classifieds, ... We don't know what to expect. It may very well be data types that we didn't anticipate.

Wang Yi

The long-awaited rules are likely to be issued in a month, when the Ministry of Commerce has made some slight amendments.

Tom Courtney

This is actually a really big deal because in Amazon's earnings, about $24 million in gross profit comes from the commerce network,

Jon Oltsik

This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.

Patricia Clark

We have seen a move on the part of the (Illinois Commerce Commission) and the state and the utilities to try to introduce competition into these industries, and for various reasons it hasn't really worked for any of them.

Mark Jarvis

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

Michael Rowe

As far as Winchester is concerned, it creates a focal point for commerce and other activities.

Henri Pirenne

The Western Mediterranean, having become a Musulman lake, was no longer the thoroughfare of commerce and of thought which it had always been.

Michael Geoghegan

It can be anything from corporate commercial stuff to somebody sharing their most personal thoughts.

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

John DeVilbiss

There is no good explanation. It's uncharacteristic with a driver with a commercial driver's license. Information like this, it's unfathomable.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Edmund Burke

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

David Williamson

We have tied up the Biosphere and we're talking about doing a master-planned community and commercial property. We're going to do a high-end community.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I rejected it many times because I thought it was just another commercial film. Sharon Stone and everything. But then, with one day to decide, I said, 'OK'. I like Sam Raimi and this character's really funny and cool.

Peter O'Meara

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

Steve Collins

Gustav is a true master of the traditional repertoire; it's a real inspiration to work with someone who knows the repertoire with such intimacy. He's such a skilled communicator, and his conducting technique is unparalleled.

Dennis Kucinich

Recently, it has been reported that U.S. troops are conducting military operations in Iran.

Robert Hanson

He would read scores like most of us read novels. Even at the end of his life, when he wasn't conducting any more, he would sit down and read scores without any music going just hearing the music in his head.

George H. W. Bush

I'm thankful they're safe, and I'm pleased with our military for conducting this operation,

Ken Bacon

If there are plans for an evacuation, they would be run by Australia, which of course is the nearest country and has taken on responsibility for conducting any sort of an evacuation that's necessary, ... But we hope it won't be necessary.

George Adams

The cleanliness is essential to conducting nano-scale research.

Adam Ereli

They've also said that they're going to be conducting a comprehensive investigation not only into this incident but into all facilities where detainees are being held.

David Hare

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Yousuf Stanizai

The situation is totally under control... we are conducting a clean-up operation.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

John Gregory

They are effectively going to get several minutes worth of return, not including promo time, for the supply of the goods.

Tom Izzo

That was a big game, including the way we won it.

Sushil Koirala

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Donald Rumsfeld

He is being accorded the protection of a POW, but he is not being legally described as one at this stage,

Wayne LaPierre

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

Sam Brownback

Let's create a legal system that can work.

E. Hicks

I talked to a local person who's into philanthropy for a defibrillator.

Bill Doyle

I think it's a wonderful contribution to local history.

H. Hart

The overwhelming majority of new deposits are not from the local area. It's been a cost-effective way of reaching a new marketplace.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

Haley Barbour

the ultimate decision-making would be at the local level.

Kevin McCarthy

It's regrettable that we're going to spend local property taxes on schools the state would otherwise fund. As I understand it, we don't get back that money.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Peter Stoessel

I like to say this show represents works by Native American artists, not Native American art.

John Walker Lindh

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Dasha Zhukova

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

John Breaux

She'll know how to operate really well in the U.S. Senate. She comes in as a freshman, but she's not really a freshman,

Andrew Wright

They plan to operate it as an apartment.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Meg Scheu

Street-runners have safety concerns, and crews get training to operate under special conditions.

S. Truett Cathy

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

Doug Hock

We feel we can operate within those (restrictions).

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Lola Russell

We're very optimistic. We are monitoring it and keep up with supply issues.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Samuel Johnson

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Peter Singer

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Charles Simic

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

Saint Patrick

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Sean Connery

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Martin Van Buren

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.