Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Marston

I think it is going to be a banner year for Lenoir County. It has taken us several years to recover from 9/11 and a down economy, but it looks like businesses are looking to expand again.

Jeff Olson

I think it's just going to be a banner year.

Michael K. Powell

Today is a banner day, and I think years from now we will look back and see it as a historical day for us, ... This is groundbreaking stuff.

Ted Kennedy

I don't know what to say. I'm happy and sad all at the same time. It was only a matter of time before conservatives reared their ugly head. These are banner days for Democrats. Oil and gas prices are up. The elderly are starving. It's great news and it's become clear that we're the ones in touch with real Americans. These flag waving braggarts have to go!

Jim Shepherd

Our research indicates that there will be a huge surge in ERP spending in 2006. With companies of all sizes growing their ERP budgets, this is bound to be a banner year for top vendors in this space.

Jonah Peretti

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

Mike Gurley

I'm a sentimental guy by nature. But no tears this time, because I'm proud of this group of seniors. They had to carry the torch from our 61-0 teams, and they went through rough times. But they wanted to put a banner on the wall (for this season's NPC championship), and they did get one.

Jeff Levitan

The issue here is what tactics should be used to reach them? Are companies looking to create an educated sales process or just dropping banner ads?

Lance Dottin

The guys whose names are on that banner have been a big part of Cambridge history. He'll forever be remembered with that banner hanging there.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Dalton Chandler

There are so many companies that are public now that I can't see everybody making it. I don't think some of these new publicly traded companies are going to survive.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Greg Raleigh

What we have here is a group of silicon companies who want to try to force the standard to be what they are already trying to build. We don't think that's in the interest of standards process or consumer.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Christopher McQuarrie

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart's earnings were lower than a year ago, and the reason why they were lower is because there is a lot of money being invested in infrastructure. But it's going to pay huge dividends in the future, ... Kmart is finally very excellently positioned to turn around and create a very strong place in the sun.

Stephen Pagliuca

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

James Collins

I suspect they'll probably get a kick out of the illusions that can be created to give them a more total immersion experience as part of virtual reality,

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Craig Mattox

It can create a major headache. You can have six or eight people with the same ticket trying to sit in the same seat. At last year's SEC Championship football game, I confiscated around 70-75 counterfeit tickets. I had about 30 with the same seat location.

Bill Vincent

He was able to use his length and create some problems for them in there.

Samuel Berger

He used the most vicious form of nationalism to try to create an ethnic empire in the heart of Europe. He wanted a greater Serbia, and he wound up with a lesser Serbia.

Jarret Stoll

Guys are dropping like flies. Hopefully one day will make a difference.

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.

Buddy Bell

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

Peter Beutel

I think that's going to keep (gasoline and oil) prices from dropping dramatically.

John Hall

We made two passes, dropping our six bundles, and then returned for the seven-hour flight back home.

J. Taylor

instead of dropping your hands down into the slot like so ...

Liz Bohning

I noticed since I started her in skating, she was doing very well with her seizures. At one point I mentioned it to a doctor, about dropping her out of it, because it seemed like it was too much. And she said no, that's what kids need. They need to keep busy.

Shah Zaman

I ran out and saw planes were dropping bombs. I saw my home being hit.

Yusuf Mehdi

I'll just come out and say it: we're not dropping channels,

Rob Oertel

It can be a little slow, and it's not the most popular sport in America. People aren't educated enough about it.

Rick Harris

Whatever it is, it's pretty much an educated guess. That's like saying, 'How many illegal moonshine stills are there in Alabama?' Nobody really knows for sure.

Mick Cornett

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

Pat Santeramo

If you're holding highly educated teachers accountable, the same should be done for grading the exam.

Masayoshi Son

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.

Diana Peters

I hope the jury has been educated enough through the trial to realize just because there's no paperwork doesn't mean there was no wrongdoing.

Napoleon Hill

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

Victoria Khan

The hardest thing was not knowing the language. I had to rely on others to translate for me. Asif is very educated and speaks seven languages.

Lawrence Frank

The guy has been in great gyms. He is extremely well educated in the game of basketball.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Lawrence Jackson

I think it's a pride issue for us. The more you win, the more you want to win. Why stop now? We want to make history.

Colin Hanna

I think it's an issue whose time has come.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Simon Crean

I think that the real issue is not just what they did then, but who else has been spied on and what does John Howard know about these circumstances,

Paul Charles

It is for Chubb and the RMT to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

David Dreier

We take this issue on one vote at a time,

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Brett Norris

Just looking at them, they really like to mix up their defenses a lot. They play a lot of zone but will switch it up. We will have to try to recognize that.

Willie Randolph

Kaz is looking much better. It might be the right time for him to get going, so that's good.

Marlon Defillo

I would not say we're at 100 percent. We're still in the process of rebuilding our infrastructure. But in terms of the department's responsiveness to the community, we are functional.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Phil Frame

We're in the process of interviewing right now. We take their statements, then go back to the site to verify what they said they saw.

Pearl Norris

We're in the process of getting it started.

Bob Hill

We've got to get Vitaly in shape. And there's a process in that.

Larry Brown

I think we just sometimes don't understand how we get leads, and time and score. We're just young and this is the process you've got to live with.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Jim Robb

I think this will keep that process on hold.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Christine Hudacko

They have all the time in the world to reach that point.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Zig Ziglar

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Maria Rodriguez

In other years, by this time, sales are exploding, but this year it's very slow.

James Cook

A salesman sees a commission.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

William O. Douglas

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

Mohammed Dahlan

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.

Jonah Goldberg

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

John Podhoretz

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.