Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean McAlinden

As Ford gets smaller, Michigan will get smaller. One hundred thousand people left the state in the last two years, and this will accelerate in the wake of Monday's announcement.

Peter Galvin

The Bush administration's lax new gas mileage standards are unfortunately going to keep America addicted to oil for a long time to come and accelerate impacts from global climate change. The fuel efficiency increases are miniscule compared to what is possible with existing technology and the major reforms urgently needed to cut air pollution, combat global climate change and save money at the gas pump. The Bush administration is figuratively and literally fiddling while the earth burns. The U.S. can and must do better if we are going to leave a habitable and tolerable planet for our children and grandchildren.

Toshihiko Matsuno

A softer New York market also helped accelerate the move.

Michael Polk

Our aim is to accelerate growth in the U.S. this year and look to better last year's 3.2 percent growth.

John Rizzuto

After several years of talking about building a strategy to enter new businesses and accelerate license growth and earnings, BEA seems to be executing.

Hal Brown

During the first quarter, we achieved a number of important milestones including the full operational and systems integration of Northwest Business Bank, enabling Pacific Continental to recognize cost savings and efficiencies earlier than was first expected. With the successful integration behind us, we were then able to accelerate our planned expansion into the Vancouver, Washington market by announcing a downtown office location scheduled to open later this spring.

Jerald Fishman

Demand continued to accelerate during the second quarter, driven by the widespread adoption of our ... core technology,

Jeff Miller

Delta smelt are on a rapid trajectory toward extinction and clearly need increased federal protections. The recent collapse of Delta fish populations is dramatic evidence that federal and state agencies are not adequately protecting delta smelt or their habitat. Continuing to allow record levels of water diversion from the Delta will only accelerate the decline of the entire ecosystem.

Jim Sargent

Delivering a fully-aligned, fee-based services organization that is designed for partner development, as well as end-user quality and satisfaction, is the next evolution in meeting channel expectations. Security technologies are complex, and there is a growing services market that partners can target to accelerate revenues and profits. McAfee is committed to driving more revenue opportunities to its partners, and a complementary services strategy is a key component in ensuring their growth and profitability.

Jeff Beyer

Many homeowners are not adequately adjusting their policy to cover the new value of their home. Often, the only time people review their homeowners insurance is when they first purchase the home.

Gerald Garrett

It is probably not going to happen, ... At this point, I have had no indication from the members that we need to have a formal hearing to adequately explore this matter.

James Loney

I am grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words. To the British soldiers who risked their lives to rescue us, to the government of Canada who sent a team to Baghdad to help secure our release, to all those who thought about us and prayed for us, for all those who spoke for us when we had no voice, I am forever and truly grateful. It's great to be alive.

Bill DeWalt

What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.

Jimmy Mathis

We were growing, changing and adapting. The name no longer adequately portrayed what we do.

Jeanette DeMelo

We need to talk about solutions that adequately reflect concerns on both sides.

Chuck Prochaska

We wanted to inform our readers of a story that had violence spawned by imagery. We felt they wouldn't be adequately informed if they couldn't see the imagery that was the root of this entire story.

Paul Tagliabue

While his limited vision does not allow him to distinguish between a bear and a woman in a fur coat, we're sure he can adequately officiate the most important game of the season.

Paul Wolfowitz

When you are in a poor country that is challenged just to meet kind of basic needs, compensating farmers adequately and having a framework for doing that gets to be an expensive proposition.

Gavin Newsom

As a major international City, San Francisco must form strong partnerships with federal and state agencies to prepare for emergencies.

Adam Ereli

Our embassy in Egypt has been in touch with the Egyptian authorities and other relevant agencies to gather information on the situation.

Richard Warren

Our agencies are independent contractors. They're expected to run a highly successful business that represents our brands well and ensures outstanding customer service.

Steve Loucks

Our agencies are booking away whenever possible. In instances when they don't have a choice, they're booking on the airline through US Airways Vacations, which is a tour brand not owned by US Air.

Frank Gaffney

Decisions in most of LOST's agencies - and especially its Tribunal - will be made on the basis of majority rule. Each country will have one vote.

Jeremy Burton

Companies and government agencies must contend with a number of industry-specific email retention laws and regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and SEC Rule 17a-4, which means a system that works for one may not work for others. We want to give our customers a number of options to choose from, rather than forcing one bundled solution on all of them.

Bill Richardson

Development of this private industry in New Mexico will allow NASA and other international government space agencies to focus their efforts on exploring the further reaches of space, including manned travel to Mars and beyond.

Rich Galen

Departments didn't talk to departments, agencies didn't talk to agencies, and then, once the news reached the White House, the White House didn't think to talk to Congress. It's almost unprecedented.

Mike Viesca

A number of different agencies are working closely together on this.

Sizwe Kupelo

As a department we cannot allow a situation where our patients are put at risk.

Chuck D.

The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that this situation can be resolved by allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves,

Reggie Sanders

As long as I can play three weeks or so (before the postseason), that would be OK. That would allow me to get the at-bats I want to, hopefully, get back where I was.

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Madeline Albright

That visit will allow for further discussions on regional security issues and other matters of mutual concern, ... rich with opportunity.

John Cottreau

That's where they hope to find certain equipment, namely an electronic chart display, that would allow us to make definite statements about the course and speed of the vessel.

Peter Olson

Random House Films is going to allow us to sell a lot more copies of books transposed to film. As well it will allow us to promote new authors.

Rahul Dravid

Reactions are always extreme when you lose or win, but these players are fully equipped and will not allow the performance to affect.

David French

Professors certainly have a right to disagree about pedagogy, ... It would have been both illegal and immoral for Brooklyn College to allow KC Johnson to face another official inquisition. Thankfully, this dire outcome has been averted.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Dick Cheney

The senator has got his facts wrong, ... I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

Brian Riedl

The Senate is clearly dragging its feet on spending reform. Some senators have called for instead reversing the tax cuts.

Jeffrey Lieberman

These medicines are clearly an improvement on no treatment at all, ... But it's also clear that we need new treatments.

Jonathan Loynes

The stronger tone of recent data was clearly enough to prompt most members of the MPC to vote to keep interest rates on hold today, but we would not be surprised if the decision was rather closer than the markets seemed to think.

Tom Daschle

The strong-arm tactics being used by the administration are clearly backfiring,

Stephen Cheetham

The Smart plant in France is more a liability than an asset. It's clearly the wrong place to be making that car.

Robert Wayman

The slowdown has clearly become global in scope, and visibility is still very limited.

John Challenger

Tech cuts have been trending downward year after year as firms continue to regain their strength after the devastating dot-com collapse in 2000 and 2001.

Richard Baldwin

These WTO rounds always look like they're going to collapse just before they get done. That's just the nature of the game.

Jen Warden

We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.

Sandy Brown

What I worry about is that someone's going to collapse on the way over there, or get hit.

Alan Gin

What I don't see is a collapse in pricing. To get a collapse ... there would have to be a big job loss where people are forced to put their houses on the market for distress sales.

John Fund

No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat.

Bill Evans

Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further.

Paul Allison

If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.

Jamelle McMillan

I saw three guys collapse and I put it up there.

Jorma Ollila

The way the third quarter shaped up really is really proof that the growth we had in the first half of this year is continuing well into the second half,

Clay Matthews III

You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.

Adam Ereli

We have a shared interest in continuing this cooperation.

John Bruno

We hope to make Start even better next year, continuing with a two-day run,

Rick Smith

Down in Florida we just really needed a lot of questions answered. We would have liked to see some better bounces and timely hitting, but I'm pleased that we are getting things done and just continuing our season.

Margita Thompson

Conversations are continuing and everyone is working in earnest, but there's no impending announcement.

Bob Murray

We have disagreed with the suspension and are continuing to work at resolving it.

Shinzo Abe

We have decided to waive a plan to provide loans for the fiscal 2005, considering the current situation surrounding the Japan-China relations. We will monitor future development in Japan-China relations while continuing discussion (on the loans) within the government.

Ben Bernanke

Even if the economy recovers smartly for the rest of this year and the next, the ongoing slack in the economy may still lead to continuing disinflation,

Charles Dickens

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Peter Sealey

Advertisers have to find another way to deliver their message. Because of the decline in traditional media, they have to make themselves more interesting.

Norman Edelman

The risk does decline with time after you stop but those numbers aren't clear,

Trilby Lundberg

This is really a resumption of the 22-cent decline since the peak price, back on May 21,

Bill Nygren

That type of monthly decline was unprecedented, ... We were not comfortable with management's explanation as to why it happened.

Martin Feldstein

And when the dollar decline makes foreign travel much more expensive, I will do more of my vacation traveling in the United States.

Brian Halla

Due to the low bookings in the fourth quarter we now expect a further decline in sales for the first quarter.

Donald Selkin

Between Texas Instruments, the rise in oil prices, and commodities, we got hit today. But the decline wasn't terrible. Last week we had nice gains, and today, we're kind of consolidating.

John Tirinzonie

While the overall numbers in January did not show a sizable increase, job gains in most sectors overshadowed a noticeable decline in government employment and we are now in the fifth consecutive month of job growth.

Dave Roy

Delta is a team that's always real competitive. We are pointing to them as the top team in the league. They are well-coached and have great ballplayers.

John Hickenlooper

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Carmen Electra

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Rabbi Katz

This is a simple 16-minute speech, but it's so profound. It's one thing to have read it, but entirely another thing to hear it in its entirety. King's speech is one of the top inspirational writings in all of American rhetoric, ever.

Craig Davis

This proposal is unfair because the entire requirement is placed on the taxpayers of Jackson County.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Olesya Rulin

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Lewis Clarke

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

Brent Bracelin

This is further evidence of a deterioration in their business.

W. S. Gilbert

This is a stark reminder that there's no evidence that online sex offender registries increase public safety. In fact, they might just do the opposite.

Charles Wicks

This is probably an ongoing feature in Yellowstone. We've only been able to study it like this for 10 years, so we're still not sure what's normal and what's not. But there's no evidence yet to suspect an eruption.

Alan Greenspan

the weight of incoming evidence persuasively suggest on oncoming intensification of inflation pressures.

John Lonski

This could be interpreted as evidence of a still soft, sluggish economy.

Mark Richt

That's just more evidence that if one team is more ready to play than the other, it could be over by the second quarter.

Jane Rissler

A lack of evidence doesn't mean there isn't a problem. We've never done the studies necessary to find a problem.

Ronnie Earle

You wouldn't see that, because those are the issues of evidence that will be presented at trial.

Steven Weinberg

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Mohammed Omar

This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

George H. W. Bush

We got a job to make sure this hurricane headed toward Florida, the federal response is prepared for it,

Tim Fox

We're such a small player at the federal level. We're kind of a small fish in that sea.

Wayne Nastri

Those that violate those laws will feel the full force of not just the federal government, but state and local government.

Marsha Blackburn

We don't want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.

Bob Wright

We don't think we ought to have to do this. It's a federal job.

Michael Nutter

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

Demetri Martin

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Paul Lee

Fishing is our main hobby and I think it is the only thing we are good at.

Jim Bowman

Fisher perfected what we had to do and has taken the program to new heights.

Mike Trapasso

Fish didn't have anything from the start, but it was the right move. If the same situation happens tomorrow, I'll do it again.

Johnny Pesky

First time anything like this has ever happened to me. I've been in the game over 60 years. I was kind of struggling (Saturday). I was like a fish out of water.

Wayne Smith

We like to see how many fish they're catching. We fish this lake, too.

David Campbell

Everything's really good right now. I think there's potential this weekend to pick up some more. Another 10 fish this season wouldn't surprise me.

Tony Floor

We had a record turnout of 290 anglers, and there was 26 fish weighed on the first day, plus there was some fish that weren't weighed in.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Every morning when I woke up, my mother was already in the kitchen making breakfast. It was always the same: steamed rice, pickled vegetables, grilled fish and miso soup. Each day there was something different in the soup such as tofu or potatoes.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Alain de Botton

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Bill Hybels

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Walter Ekard

We had systems going down, and in some cases, service levels were worse than before.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Carson Daly

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Janet Jackson

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Nat Harrington

We have a really safe record if you look at how much we're on the road.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Eddy Cue

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Shelia Smith

At this point, the records are gone. They're a quick, scrappy team. Weston is not big, but rely a lot on quickness. We're all after the same thing: winning a state title.

Paul Graham

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Cameron Bright

There is so much life underneath the water that we dont know about.

Diane Duane

You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!

Daniel Goleman

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Billy Carter

I found out water can be drunk straight.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Edwidge Danticat

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.