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.

Jacques Chirac

France accepted that the President of the Commission be elected by the European Parliament,

Johnny Vegas

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

Robert Herron

If any of us had accepted $50,000 to keep him out of prison, why would we have, in open court, asked the judge to sentence him to prison?

Geoff Hoon

I emphasize again that this was a military request and has been considered and accepted on operational grounds after a thorough military evaluation by the chiefs of staff,

David Wimhurst

I don't think it's as bad as it sounds. The election of Mr. Preval has been universally welcomed except for one or two quarters. It's a result that has generally been accepted by the entire international community.

Jason Shirey

For us to strike out that many times was unacceptable. I was unhappy with that. I didn't think we accepted the challenge. It's getting old out-hitting teams.

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.

Al Groh

We could just as easily lose a player in the fall as we can right now. This is an opportunity for us to build a little background for some of the things that could possibly happen during the course of a real season.

Seanan McGuire

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.

Jim Flanagan

We were so impressed with his background -- not only in government, but as a surgeon, and his interest in becoming connected to the community.

Connie Williams

We do get more requests from elementary schools. The background checks are very valuable, and we think it's worth the investment.

Dan Roberts

We do everything from a criminal history check to a background check of their employment history to checking personal references. We check criminal history; we check driving record.

Richard Kouri

We believe Carole has the best chance of winning in November. She has the money in her campaign, she has the background and she has the best stance on the issues.

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,

Michael Hintze

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

Georgine Getty

He was very smart and he was very passionately committed to the causes he believed in. He was always very energetic and very passionate about the issues.

Peter Angelos

I was saddened and disappointed. I always believed he was quite happy in Baltimore.

Jose Contreras

Since the first day I walked into the clubhouse, everyone believed in me and had confidence in me, ... Even the language barrier. The manager not only speaks Spanish, he's my friend. He gives me a lot of confidence.

Ryan Rauch

Six months ago, people believed there was good chance he (Tobin) would leave.

Lavinia Cummings

She is handling it really well, despite everything going on, and it's been so hard on her and her family. She never believed something like this could happen. And if it could happen to her, it could really happen to anyone.

Paula Zahn

She really expected to come home. She truly believed she had more time.

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,

Jason Terry

We were down big and it was just real gutsy for us to be able to come back. We challenged ourselves in the huddle. We knew we hadn't played good 'D' at all, and for three quarters there we played lock-down, solid defense. That was huge, it was big for our confidence. That was our mission and our goal going into this trip, to win each game, and we did that.

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.

Ray Gant

There's not much trickery. They run straight at you. It's definitely a challenge for us. We have to step up and clog things up.

Mark Lawrence

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

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.

Liu Jianchao

China welcomes the United States to play a positive role in promoting the improvement of India-Pakistan relations.

Avery Goldstein

China was viewed as a pariah state -- it was catastrophic,

Abigail Washburn

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

Paul Casey

China was obviously a very successful Tour destination for me in 2005.

Shi Yinhong

China wants to win the hearts and minds of the Taiwanese people, so in the past few months they have said very little about reunification.

Shi Yinhong

China wants to strengthen its ties with North Korea, and to reassure North Korea that China considers it an important neighbor.

Roger Kay

China wants to be regarded as a mature player in the world stage, and to do so it has to respect intellectual property law.

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.

Jiang Zemin

The Chinese nation will realize a great rejuvenation,

Hu Jintao

The Chinese motherland and the people are proud of you!

Theresa Hitchens

The Chinese military has enormous stress about U.S. space plans at large. There is a debate about what they should do.

Chuck Schumer

The Chinese manipulate their currency and the administration should not have ducked the issue,

Michael Griffin

The Chinese have offered an opportunity ... to discuss cooperation.

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.

Lee Williamson

This one was a little less nerve-wracking. I knew if I could get to 17-under, it should be enough.

Earl Holmes

We shot the gap. We knew they were going with a quarterback sneak.

Ryan Giggs

We didn't perform in the first half. They had the better of the first half. We knew we would improve, and that's what we did.

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.

David Goldstein

In the first year, we wanted to test the water and see what kind of market there is out there.

Cai Rumohr

In normal market it could get back to 60.

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.