Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Osnes

I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.

Tony Kanaan

I would say the race was hard, but it was easier than my qualifying lap. But definitely, once I got in the lead, it was a little bit different because I was controlling the pace. I could push for a lap, rest for an actual lap, push for another lap, so forth and so forth.

Eric Lander

I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease. What most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.

Eric Lander

I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease. Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.

Dan Flavin

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Henry Spencer

Historically, the U.S.'s big launchers fly seldom enough that their costs are dominated by annual upkeep of facilities and staff, not by the actual cost of each launch. The expensive part is maintaining the launch capability, not actually conducting launches.

Jeff Pulver

What most employees do not realize is that corporate rebates and incentives are enacted when the employee population reaches thresholds outlined in their vendor contracts. Meaning, while an employee thinks the actual cost of his or her airline ticket is $500, the actual cost may be much less. And in most cases preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize an entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on non-performance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

Stephen Briggs

There is no guarantee that there will be buyers, but the point is that the market thinks and hopes that they will and that's just the sort of bullish spin, even if it is against the actual fact.

Nancy Lee

The purpose of putting it in the afternoons was to give it a time slot that was as close as possible to getting it to when the actual events were occurring. As well as, that's the only spot we could find for it on the schedule.

David Neeleman

I think it hurts profitability more than the business because the airlines have tried and tried to pass on higher fares, and it's not going to happen.

Fred Reid

He wanted to see a Virgin-branded airline fly in the U.S., but he realized the only way to do that was to license the trademark and cede control to U.S. investors.

Tim Winship

Having a credit card associated with a frequent-flier program is a real money maker. Typically, airlines charge the credit-card company one or two cents for each mile issued. That can equate to millions of dollars.

Dan Garton

History was made tonight as American Airlines gave away more than 20,000 free, round-trip tickets as part of the largest-ever airline ticket giveaway. We believe in rewarding people for their loyalty, and tonight these devoted fans went home with free American Airlines ticket vouchers. Each Mavericks fan here tonight will soon have the opportunity to experience American's extraordinary new service from Love Field, and we look forward to showing them our special brand of appreciation.

Chris McGinnis

LaGuardia is one of the few airports in the country that is controlled by slots so there are only a certain amount of airlines that are allowed to take off and land.

Tim Winship

I welcome the idea of an airline giving serious attention to the nutritional specifications of these snacks.

Terry Trippler

I was wrong, ... I wrote them off. But this is why they are the most determined group of survivors I have ever seen. -- This airline deserves to succeed because they fought back.

James Coulter

There aren't many people around with the stomach or the knowledge to delve into the airline industry.

Duane Woerth

Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankruptcy and terminating the plans.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Chris Dodd

He convinced me that he will exercise judgment based on the law and the facts of a particular matter,

Richard Suttmeier

Greenspan is at risk of losing his credibility, based upon the fact he was so upbeat two or three weeks ago, ... If they don't bring rates up at this meeting, he will lose credibility -- that would send a horrible message to markets.

Richard Lapchick

Had I guessed, I probably would have guessed the West would have the largest percentage based on the image, at least, of free-thinking universities. That's a pretty astonishing figure.

Russ Fager

He's a big-time player. He can change the entire level of our play in the back, simply based on his experience and his level of play. He's been a winner everywhere he's been. I hope that's not going to change here.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

Tim Reilly

I think in most cases it's just an example of companies trying to figure out what they have to do to make their services work. These are small companies. They have to ask, what does it take?

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Mark Sunner

Goner is one of the most incredibly fast-moving and potentially dangerous e-mail viruses we've seen, ... We've seen most cases occur in France, the UK and the United States, in that order.

Martin Jol

I thought for a long time on Friday night about whether I should play them all but in some cases I did not have other options,

Mike Ryan

It is good and reassuring that the system in Turkey is able to detect cases consistent with the disease, but it is premature to say these are human cases of avian flu.

Anne McLellan

It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.

Richard Williams

Lawyers involved in NTP and other patent cases think a deal will come before year-end, or even pre-Christmas, and be valued between $750 million and $1.25 billion. The stock could rally sharply on a deal.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

Joe Hodas

I think their intent is to grow their company as our intent is to grow our company.

Philip Wohl

I think the network's fine, it's a solid company and they'll wind up settling (the suit) somehow.

Don Foster

We think about 90 percent of the people are in compliance. And some people that aren't in compliance don't even know that they aren't in compliance.

Nina Olson

When information is reported to the IRS, the compliance rate is 90 percent. When it's not, only 50 percent shows up on a tax return.

J. Taylor

I have exhausted the administrative process with this property and I have been met with refusal towards any compliance efforts,

A. Hodge

The truth is that these very low numbers ... demonstrate a remarkable level of compliance with federal regulations exceeding 99.9%.

E. B. White

We are continuing to work with the airport, and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

Jack Lee

Abercrombie is starting to take the first steps in implementing programs to come into compliance with the settlement.

Kamuron Gurol

They found it to be out of compliance with the Growth Management Act.

Jonathan Todd

It's all very well to give 12,000 pages -- they could give half a million -- but if it's not the right information for competitors to make Microsoft-compatible workgroup servers it doesn't resolve the compliance with the remedy.

Thomas Vinje

There's a striking similarity between Microsoft's efforts to evade compliance with the European decision and its failure to properly comply with the U.S. settlement.

Ike Nwaelele

He's a good player so I just tried to get a hand up and contain him and not let him get to the lane.

Rasoul Wilson

He's a great quarterback, and we can't stop him. We were out to contain him.

Kevin Davis

He's a great player. He can be in the mid-20s and you think you've done a great job on him. He's just so smooth around the basket. I thought we had enough guys come through on the back side and give him enough trouble all night that eventually it wears on him. You're not going to stop him. You just hope you can contain him.

Kyler Hall

He's definitely a talent. He's an exciting player. If you don't contain him, he can definitely hurt you.

Kathy Jacobitz

I think it's because there are so many products that contain acetaminophen.

Jan Chipchase

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

Bill Warren

Law enforcement is in total control of the situation. It is a hostage situation. It's contained to one room of the hotel. Our guests and employees have been evacuated from the immediate area.

Jamie Dixon

He is a great shooter, so you have to make him take tough shots. We tried to contain him, and to do that you've got to make them tough.

Ray Yeakley

Guys who are now testing positive for hepatitis C more than likely contracted it in the 1980s or late 1970s when it wasn't understood what hepatitis C was.

Steve Kean

He is contracted until 2008 and we are very hopeful we can secure his services for longer.

Graeme Souness

He is contracted to Real Madrid and it won't be him that makes that decision. No player can make that decision,

Dean Ryan

Henry is contracted here and I've no knowledge of any speculation in Australia.

Gary Roberts

It would be nice of their manager Tommy Taylor to ring us rather than go to the media, especially when it is a contracted player. Tommy should know better.

Jose Sulaiman

what weight the fight was contracted for and if that was his weight. And if not, why it was contracted.

Veronica Barrett

We're working to the contract, which means we're still working to last year's contract, and we're not putting in any extras. We're working the time that we are contracted for, and nothing more.

Fred Nation

We have contracted to abate the asbestos in the building. There are no definitive plans at this point. Any future use of the premises requires abatement.

Niranjan Shah

We have contracted 15 players with eight in grade A, four in grade B and the rest in grade C.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Richard Curtis

We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Brendan Gill

It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.

Jack Foley

Last year, I needed 10 people working full-time for a month doing 2005 contracts and setting up audits for our corporate customers. This year, I have one person updating the files in a day.

Mary Neubauer

In most instances, the retail location doesn't own the equipment that's operating there. That's owned by a retail operator and there are private contracts between those companies.

Keith Tkachuk

You can't replace guys like that. We put ourselves in this situation where they're going to get rid of a lot of the old guys who don't have contracts next year and try to rebuild.

Matt Vanover

Any time there are questions about contracts or the integrity of our procurement processes, we investigate and we'll cooperate fully in any outside investigation.

Bob Wood

All the contracts have been ratified and everyone will go back to work on Monday.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

John Battelle

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Kevin Brown

There is a kind of revolution going on, on the corporate desktop.

Ethan Harris

I think we know corporate profit growth can't stay at the rate we've seen in recent quarters. They (employers) have been squeezing the work force pretty aggressively, squeezing productivity out of workers and holding the line on wages. It's a matter of how much corporate profits slow down.

Jody Kielbasa

I think they want to become good corporate citizens.

Dave Grannan

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino represent a significant part of the corporate email landscape.

Andy Schultheiss

Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.

Sandra Lerner

If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.

Bill Cheney

In principle, rapid productivity should make wages rise, but it seems that until the job market tightens up a bit, all the productivity gains flow to corporate profits.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Jeff Krull

I would think the cost would be very steep. It's not in real good shape, actually.

Scott Smith

Katrina is limiting the current supply of natural gas into the system, which is increasing the cost on the market.

Bronwyn Belling

It can cost over $15,000 to take out one of these loans.

Silvia Pepino

Italy needs radical reform to cut its unit labor costs and regain competitiveness, but that can be a very painful process.

Mark Oline

It also reinforces the fact that GM will have to make even more significant cuts in their own cost structure going forward.

Levon Kendall

This was a good learning experience for us. We got away from our game plan, and it cost us. We have to stick to the things that have been working for us all year or we're going to keep losing.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Mark Rebholz

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Ian Morrison

I don't know of any president of any corporation in the western world that has locked out his employees five times in the last five years.

Melissa Norcross

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

Richard Fisher

I'm worried about my employees more than anything.

Alan Pollock

The employees already have it; they were our beta-testers.

Mike Boyd

The level of compensation is outrageous when you look at the sacrifices United employees made.

Mark Zandi

The job market is getting tight enough that employees will regain some negotiating power and some modest improvement in wage growth next year.

Brian Doyle

As we push these capabilities out to our folks, we find they are powerful enablers of social networking and communicating. Our employees are helping us realize the potential of new ways to communicate.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Petro Poroshenko

He didn't look in my eyes the entire time he was reading his statement.

Patrick Swayze

He just dropped. And the entire responsibility of the family suddenly was on me.

Paul Doyle

He's devastated. The one main focus of the entire year was the world championships, so it's pretty tough.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Mickey Maurer

Our mission is to offer as little incentives as possible and still get the jobs. We're very pleased with it and they're pleased as well.

James Fallows

When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.

Frederick W. Smith

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Darryl Jenkins

It's very low-paying and leads nowhere. So really you have no incentives to get there. You have no places to move from that job. So we see very low-quality personnel who turn over very rapidly.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Yumi Nishimura

There was a string of positive trading incentives today.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Victor Heresa

In anything pertaining to my property, there will be security. We're not going to jeopardize our restaurants.

Ben Bernanke

This necessary spending should not, however, jeopardize the president' long-term deficit-reduction goals.

Brian Williams

There are teams that have been in the playoffs in the past that have lost a lot of money.

Joe Papin

For me personally, maintain the weight I lost over the summer.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Max Black

We've got to keep it going. I haven't lost to them. I can't start.

Julian Sensley

I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this game.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before - it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Braylon Edwards

We lost to the team with the worst record in the NFL. It's time for some answers.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Matt Mullenweg

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

Richard Moyroud

They have been on the planet for millions of years. Why doesn't it have the right to continue?

Morgan Downey

This is very positive for millions of Americans.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

E. P. Thompson

They're huge. The big ones sell millions of units annually.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

Garrett Hardin

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Margot Robbie

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

Neil LeBlanc

I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Tori Spelling

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Steven Bell

It was not bad. I have always preferred the cold.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Neil Budde

There is not just one preferred source at one time during the day.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Warren Beatty

I've always preferred not to run for public office, and I still do, ... Run, Warren, run!

David Stern

preferred that we do it as a group.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Jeremy Friesen

The view on where U.S. rates go seems to be most contentious.

Glenn Thomas

And, we have been struggling with our rates ever since.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

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.

Najib Razak

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

Justin Upton

I think we're so competitive, ... he wouldn't even realize I'm his brother.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

Zack Greinke

I don't even realize how long it's been,

Richard Jefferson

I really didn't even realize it was that crazy.

Scott Lewis

I never thought there would be so many. I didn't realize the state has as much technology as it has.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

John Husing

If it works the way everyone thinks it will, we should be OK.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Will Rogers

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Johnny Carson

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Kirsten Dunst

I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.

Paul Ryan

When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

Larry the Cable Guy

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.