Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Richard Boucher

What we're trying to do now is get the parameters accepted in a way where the reservations are reconcilable and, therefore, we know that both sides are in a position to negotiate seriously.

Jim Wilkinson

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

Walter Brisken

I always knew he was interested in engineering, and in what I was doing, but he surprised me by calling me to say he had accepted a job here.

Don Ameche

I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.

John Stevens

I wouldn't have accepted if I didn't have the powers I need. If teams don't comply, they're going against the common good, and if they don't, why won't they?

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

John Brackett

She comes to practice everyday and works extremely hard. She understands her role and she's accepted it very well over the years. She doesn't play a lot of minutes, but she wants to make an impact and she has.

Hicham Guerrouj

She accepted the travel and living in hotels for 11 months, ... With a child, she could have said she wanted to be home, and that would have been difficult. After a match it's 10 p.m., and then you have dinner until 12 - all the inconveniences of a pro athlete. Tennis was my first priority, and she accepted it. She gave advice and supported me.

Rob Neyland

Nobody else has a ski resort in the background to make their snow.

Maajid Nawaz

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Suzanne Jones

They just kind of paired nicely. Mom really enjoyed sharing the background of his show and the story. She enjoyed sharing that with tourists.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Tony Roche

I've always believed Mark is a wonderful player,

Cindy Stein

I felt from the get-go they believed in themselves, they believed they could compete.

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Jade Gribble

By the end of the year, we had kids believing and that was a benchmark. By the end of the season they truly believed they belonged wrestling on the varsity level. They believed in the program and what I'm teaching them is going to help them.

Bible Bible

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.

Charles Gibson

but I never believed for a minute Peter was serious. He loved this job. It was his core being.

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Edsger Dijkstra

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

David Butler

(Bird flu) is a smaller challenge at one level in the sense that we are better prepared, we have better knowledge, we are -- at least in our part of the world -- healthier than people were in 1918,

Ismail Haniyeh

We've handled challenges in the past and we will be able to stand up to future challenges as well.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Mark Lawrence

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

Skip Bertman

He's very, very personable, very easy to approach. I think this job proved to be what he was looking for in location, in the financial scenario, in the challenge it offered.

Trent Yawney

He's looked sharp in practice, and he's excited. It'll be a good challenge for him and the team. He'll surprise some people.

Jiang Xiaoyu

We want to convey the image of a China that is more open and that is making progress.

Pauline Frommer

You hear more and more about people going to China and not just to Beijing, but also to Shanghai. It's a place Americans should see. They're shaping up to be our big competitors.

Fred Bergsten

China is the 800-pound gorilla overshadowing all of the U.S. economic relations.

Irene Chan

China is such a big country, two Disney parks is always a possibility in the future.

Liu Peng

China is still a winter sports fledgling, but we worked quite hard these years. The winter sport in China has developed very fast, especially the last four years, and we hope the Chinese delegation will make strong show in Turin.

Jonathan Anderson

China is ready. They've given us the market-maker system. They've introduced the forwards market. That's really all you need.

Kenichiro Sasae

China is playing a significant role in making a breakthrough in this kind of situation and I expect China to continue to play this role.

David Snyder

China is our number one priority. Their market has opened much more slowly than we had anticipated.

John Frisbie

China is our fastest-growing export market, and imports from China help keep inflation low, benefiting American consumers and businesses.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Paul Oakenfold

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

Paul Muni

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

Li Peng

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

Mao Zedong

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Hu Angang

A more open Chinese market will help create the world's largest market.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Jill Gaudelli

We knew it was credible. More educational and less commercial.

Bill Jones

We knew it was coming. It was just a matter of how much and when.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Henry Ford

Minicars produce miniprofits.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

John Pomfret

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.