Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Aftergood

an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production.

Dennis Curtin

The supermarket competition is very intense in Central Pennsylvania, and that competition helps control prices passed on to the consumer,

Ben Bernanke

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.

Bobby Knight

South central Kansas will be left out of the mix.

Malcolm Gets

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

Naomi Mitchison

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the central characters would have a happy ending, but it was quite difficult sometimes to get them out of trouble.

John Sloop

It was a one-point game and pretty soon, the lead was stretched to 10. We made seven turnovers in five minutes that Central converted into easy baskets.

Jud Gartman

We hope we can take what we learned from (the Scott Central) game into this week. They (Scott Central and Philadelphia) do about the same type stuff. We will improve.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

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.

Roberta Zelleke

As parents, we're not ready for this. We don't see it coming. We can't stop it, but we can change how we react to it.

Courteney Cox

That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.

Laurence Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes yourdestiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in yourlife. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as wellas your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought isgoing.

John Edgar Wideman

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Debbie Ford

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Doug Adkins

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Kim Rupert

Productivity still remains really solid, and one of the hallmarks of this whole expansion. If we can hang on to that I think the perception of where we're going in the market could change dramatically.

Lamar Alexander

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

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.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Bill Miller

The start of production and the first shipment to a customer represent significant milestones for MED. There is still much to do but we look forward to 2006 with confidence.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Zach Nelson

Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

Richard Levy

This is a tremendous opportunity to shape the legal industry's technology vision. It is a pleasure to work with a talented engineering team focused on customer satisfaction.

Jacob Arabo

Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction is guaranteed.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

David Porter

We decided that for this holiday season we should be involved in some type of offering. We know our customers match up with his fans.

Dave Andrews

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Matthew Murphy

Customers pretended to be going on holiday on preview day, to try to get the discount in advance, but you could tell they were lying.

Stacey Quandt

Customers prefer to get their solutions from one source.

Cisco Systems

Customers need solutions that can be effectively managed within the first few minutes of an outbreak or detection of damage occurring.

Andy Purdy

We have a significant cyber risk in this country.

Seth Gordon

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

James Gleick

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Jodie Bernstein

It's an old trick dressed up in new electronic garb and a sort of cyberspace jargon.

Dave Barry

There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

Gene Luen Yang

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

William Ames

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

Richard Jefferies

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

Jim Sanders

These are small kids, mostly. These kids travel either as individuals or in groups of two or three, and it doesn't take them but a matter of a few seconds to do this stuff.

Nicolle Packer

This is not like a pregnancy test, where you are either pregnant or you're not.

Scott Skiles

This is probably our season right here, to either get back in it or not. Obviously, we have to win our home games.

Steve Gervais

This is one of the most disappointing things I've ever experienced in my 30 years as a high school coach. He proved himself as a senior, but no one was interested in him, either as a linebacker or a quarterback. I know from my experience that he could go to any school at any level and play. But it doesn't matter how I see it. It's how the schools see it.

Seth Shostak

The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

John McClintock

Sometimes, you just get involved in a game which is so fast and so skilled. And I think that's what happened." ()

Whoopi Goldberg

Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Brian Alexander

It was a little frustrating because we like a fast, up-tempo pace to the game. We like to fast break, and they kind of slowed that down for us.

Anthony Hopkins

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.

Hal McRae

You're trying to be ready for everything, and you're not ready for anything. We'd like for them to be ready for the one pitch, the fastball. That's where you start. We go from there. ... All timing comes off the fastball. You've got to be a fastball hitter first.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Geoffrey Moore

And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Dick Cheney

prefer not to meet with all members of the commission.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Auberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Conrad Black

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Ronald Reagan

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

George Steinbrenner

Let's not talk punishment.

John Buckingham

You ride out the downturn and you're usually rewarded in the end,

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Elbert Hubbard

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Earl Nightingale

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

John Ruskin

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Euripides

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.