Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Marc Rotenberg

Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.

David Leslie

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

Eryn Witcher

Based on the best available science that we have studied to date, EPA has a proposal for public comment that aims to protect public health and improve air quality while recognizing that the science of particulate matter continues to evolve and contains uncertainties on many levels.

Cecil Mille

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

William Gilmore Simms

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Carlo Ratti

Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

Cecil Mille

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Barton Gellman

Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

Costas Karamanlis

The government aims to establish the Thessaloniki region as a pole of attracting scientists from Southeastern Europe and becoming the base of new enterprises in the new technologies sector,

Ignatius of Antioch

Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Dave Anderson

As an alternative I'd like to propose that we consider an ordinance that states specifically how many car spaces per residential spot. You should base that upon some mathematical formula of the living area, bedroom area or occupancy load of the house.

William Sutton

Our detectives were in contact with a (Copeland) family attorney from the Quakertown area Monday, who gave us some indication that he would turn himself in (Tuesday),

J. Horton

Our concern is always for our employees and trying to do things right. We've stepped up training in every area we can think of and used outside consultants.

Brian Cowen

Our efforts to reduce inflation are working; inflation here has now converged to euro area norms. This inflation figure is well down from inflation rates of between 4 percent and 6 percent recorded between 2000 and 2002.

Ewan Aitken

People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes them proud to come from Niddrie.

Justin Hamilton

People don't want to drive downtown into the tourist area to eat dinner.

James Fuller

People don't want to come to an area that looks like the place they left.

Steve Smith

Officers saturated the area and eventually found these three guys. This was certainly an exercise in stupidity.

Gerry Gerlach

Of course, this was a good farming area back in the '50s, '60s and '70s. There were about 25 farm equipment implement dealers within a 30-mile radius. There were a lot of farmers around.

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jerome Kassirer

Teaching hospitals are big places, ... So it's much more difficult to inject that kind of behavior.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Kathleen Harris

This is not a story where minorities are always worse off. It really depends on what behavior you are looking at.

Anita Barker

This is not the kind of behavior we expect.

David Temple

This is pretty bizarre behavior, but what you'll hear in testimony is that these are two pretty odd people.

Stephane Dujarric

The U.N. reiterates that it will strictly enforce a zero tolerance policy concerning unethical, unprofessional or fraudulent behavior for U.N. contractors,

Ten Eyck

This course is for people who are interested in the outdoors, behavior, natural history, cultural - these are the people that are going to like this.

Bob Hunter

You should call your insurance company and tell them, 'I've changed my driving behavior ? I've stopped driving to work' or, 'I'm using my car less,' and explain it to them and that you'd like to know if you qualify for a lower rate.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Amar'e Stoudemire

As a player, you should look at the teams you might want to play for. The city you may want to live in. The system you may want to play in. The economy. The cost of living. Everything. It's about what's best for you.

Shawn Springs

As a player, you're about the team. You do the best you can do to help out the team.

Chris Latham

As a player who finished last season starting with the Wallabies I'm under no illusions that I'll walk back in. But it's that sort of thing that brings out the best in any player.

Diane Keaton

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Brendan Fraser

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

Channing Tatum

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Jamie Bamber

When you start a new project, you wonder whether its the right choice.

Bojana Novakovic

I just want choices. Its not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; thats the last thing I want.

Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

William Shelton

I've reached a time in my life where I want to give something back to this community. Also I have four sons who I want to have opportunities to grow up and stay in the county if they choose to.

Arnaldo Otegi

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

Amy Green

We hope we are preparing these young individuals to enter the world of agriculture. And for those who choose not to return to the family farm, we hope they will be successful with other skills they learned in this program.

Jon Katz

Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

Carol Hamilton

We started using celebrities back in the '70s because we wanted to convey a sense of confidence in women. But the celebrities we choose are chosen because they are also role models and something more than a celebrity.

Lech Walesa

When there aren't any fish in the sea, a crawfish can pass off for a fish. I tried to choose as wisely as I could, given the line-up, which was not to my liking. Still, if you can't get what you want, you make do with what you have.

Oleh Rybachuk

When the president had to choose between his friends and stabilization, the president chose stabilization.

Pat Kelly

The wave is intimidating enough, and with all those people in the way it can distract from your focus.

Thomas Kean

There's no question that we are not as safe as we need to be. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

Marilyn Manson

Watching movies is my one distraction.

J. K. Rowling

I'm a very distracted person.

Tom Borelli

I don't want to see resources distracted for something seen as your hobby.

Kathy Baker

We take the puppies everywhere we go, ... Our job is to acclimate them to everyday life. A lot of it is learning not to be distracted by normal, everyday things. It takes time for them to learn that.

Rob Bell

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Jeff Rainey

Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear.

Patti Smith

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Jason Jennings

Seeing we have a relatively young staff and young team, hopefully I can get us off to a good start and take some of the leadership role. I am not a big vocal guy, never have been. I like to lead by example. I would like to give us a good example to go by.

Larry Wilcox

This is an example of the possible outcome of extreme prejudice and racism.

Stan Chesley

This is an example of negotiating and hard bargaining.

William Ohlemeyer

This is another example of the jury ignoring the law and doing what they are not supposed to do,

John Tory

This is another example of a government that has lost all respect for taxpayers.

Ken Kramer

This is the first example I can think of that gives the natural state of the coastline back to the people, rather than taking it away.

Dennis Brooks

The United Way organizations are an example of hope in what they provide.

Paul McAuley

The mobile wireless network also gives clinicians a number of other tools, for example we have a virtual medical library on-line in partnership with Queen's University.

Sean Jones

Young's just the latest example of what's been going on for decades. This is the time of year when we look for things you can't do, not what you can do.

Lisa Ling

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Randy Bly

It's a combination of factors hitting all at once.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Connie Miller

I wanted him to get me back in shape so I could do this stuff again. In fact, it was the first or second time I was there, I said, 'I have to get back to Jazzercise. How can you help me?'

Joe DiTillio

I wanted to help in any way I could. It's nice to see someone like Tony doing something out of their own pocket, and showing us how not to forget.

Curtis Sumpter

I wanted to go out there and help my team as much as I can. Being out there was what I really wanted to do.

Paul McNamee

After leaving Tennis Australia, I hoped that I would be able to help another sport that I love and I feel privileged to be offered this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with golf, which I have been passionate about since I was young.

John Crosby

Successful people turn everyone who can help them into sometime mentors!

Tom Ridge

That's nothing more than sharing some information that may be relevant to pilots and may be relevant to the law enforcement community. Nothing more, nothing less,

Arthur Miller

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Luisa Deason

We have questioned three individuals who have provided us with lots of information.

Eduardo Galeano

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Alex Berenson

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.

Juan Carlos

You are talking about information management when you talk about extranet management, ... With the next level, it's not managing the network per se, but it is managing the information that moves through those networks.

Richard Eaton

Every single scrap of information we get is important to us. ... Something's out there that we still need.

Paula MacDonald

As things progress, they (investigators) may be more specific about the information they give.

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Laura Davis

Six months ago, I would have said we have the strongest team,

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Dan Becker

There's lot of options out there for me.

Jarno Trulli

I am not in a rush and we are talking but I have other options and I don't want to wait until September to sort out my future.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Tom Richardson

Even though it was an outside chance, that could have been me on the shuttle. It's kind of scary.

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Joe Hale

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Rich Rodriguez

The trainers think he may be 85 to 90 percent ready by Saturday.

Conor Jackson

I still don't feel 100 percent comfortable up there (at the plate), either. But when I do, I'll know it and I'll tell you.

Jerry Buckley

What we are saying -- whether it was 'Martha Stewart' or any other publication -- when you have a 22 percent drop, that's significant, and we will watch it very closely.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joel Smith

Even the way somebody walks sometimes in a video may be the way to recognize that person.

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Marc Racicot

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Alan Garner

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Coco Chanel

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

Charles Spurgeon

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Eileen Caddy

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Amy Cook

There's just not enough room at that airport.

Charles Grassley

Is there any room in constitutional interpretation for the judge's own values or beliefs?

Stephen Cohen

The site is safe... everything is functioning as normal.

Johnny Rivers

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Danny Sullivan

If you are unsure whether or not a site can support a subdomain on its own, it can't,

Charlie Gilson

We're working on a Web site right now.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.

Johan Botha

The tests went all right, but I was very disappointed in the results.

Brigham Young

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

Stephen Jay Gould

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

Mark Rosenker

We terminated the test because it was unsafe at that point.

Daniel Tosh

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Alfred Bester

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.