Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meskis

Reading a book is a very human experience, and Betty engaged in the humanity of putting children and books together.

Mark Kelley

Prior to BET, especially in its 24-hour version, I think standard commercial television did not do a good job of representing people of color. BET created a place where all those people could be seen in all the different vestiges they come in.

Hidenori Karaki

The Nasdaq ended mostly unchanged last Friday, and some investors bet it was a good chance to hunt for bargains.

Glenn Heyes

Oh you bet I will. I'll stand there until he rots. If he lasts, if he can take it, prison is a tough place, I hear.

Kateri Callahan

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.

Evan Osnos

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

Celso Senise

The situation is not good and the worst thing is that there is a feeling that it could get worse. The market is ready to improve, but it depends on what happens abroad...You can't bet on anything.

Jeff Raikes

The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Anthony Curtis

The sports books come up with many ingenious ways to get you to put your money down, ... You have to pick who you think is going to win given the point spreads, but people still tend to bet with their hearts.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

Henry Paulson

As a public company, Goldman Sachs will have the financial strength and strategic flexibility to continue to serve our clients effectively as well as to respond thoughtfully to the business and competitive environment over the long term.

Avi Greengart

As a one-shot deal; this frees RIM to go back to its business without any further complications.

Vicki Denfeld

As an independent hotel, The Churchill relies on its reputation and personal service to fulfill the high expectations of its guests. Jeanine's knowledge of the Washington, DC business community coupled with her vast sales and management experience provide ideal leadership for delivering on our guests' expectations while supporting our excellent sales and marketing team.

John Szabo

As a value-added distributor, we're in a lot of routes to market with our business partners, and we have a pretty deep portfolio in retail offerings with our distribution partners.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Edward Lanphier

As a business person, if I offered you $2.5 million in stock in a private company versus $7.5 million in cash, just in the up-front deal, which would you take? The numbers are unambiguous.

Robert Shillman

As a businessman, if we are to stay in business around the world, we have to seek to make products as inexpensively as possible. What that means is that American workers will shift from doing jobs that other people can do more cheaply to jobs that other countries can't do more cheaply.

Horace Mann

As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ... (Now,) I have to make sacrifices every day (as a business owner).

Jim Tracy

That's just how well that guy pitches. He just dominated the game.

Jack Bicknell

And they have some wide receivers who can really fly, so we have our hands full, ... They pretty much dominated Wyoming and their offense is really dangerous.

Bob Hartley

Even though they've pretty much dominated us in the first three games, the good news is we're still right there with them.

Malcolm Boyd

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Carmen Schoolcraft

We had a good final seven-minute push in the second half, but that was about it. We dominated the first half, but we just couldn't put it in the back of the net.

Jim Tracy

We got pitched to death. He dominated the game.

Antoine Walker

We feel like we can play better. We felt like the first game they hit us with a real good shot. We don't think we've hit them with a good shot, where we've dominated for 48 minutes.

Angela Merkel

My government will be dominated by a firm will to renew our fatherland,

Martin Reynolds

Obviously, US Robotics is a shadow of what it used to be when it dominated the modem business.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Don Waddell

The oldest guy in the tournament was one of our better players. Unfortunately not everybody had the jump that he had. If we did, we'd probably be talking about something differently.

David Chokachi

After about two weeks, you realize everybody's human, and everybody puts their pants on the same way.

Spanish Proverb

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody

LeBron James

After a great win like that, you don't want everyone to scatter. I wanted to get everybody together and let them know that we are all in.

Bud Boudreaux

After Frances, everybody around here was seasoned veterans. If a third hurricane had hit us, we would have restored power within three days. And after a fourth one, we would have snapped fingers and the lights would come on.

Bruce Moore

After everybody had taken pictures and gone I went up and put my hand on his shoulder, kind of looking at him in the eye, and I realized he's a hero to me,

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

Jack Whitaker

People forget that (Facenda) was a great news man, ... They just think of him as the voice of NFL Films. John was a great fan. We had a great set up for 12 years.

African Proverb

The sun does not forget a village just because it is small

Mark LaBarbera

The term 'crusader' is a positive thing. Forget about what happened 1,000 years ago. Let's look at just recently in history. When people talk about Rosa Parks they talk about someone who's a crusader for racial justice. When we think about crusaders here we think about the image of people who are crusaders for social justice.

Kyle Lohse

I wanted to go out there and get a good start, so I can forget about everything that happened,

Robert McCracken

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about and serving others" ()

H. Tejomayananda

Some smile to forget, some forget to smile.

Edmund Burke

So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen.

Jim Smith

Thank goodness it's one of those things that kind of runs and you forget it's there.

John Hughes

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

John Fogg

Psychologically, that is a huge step forward, ... When that happens, you can think about getting back to a sense of normalcy.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Paul Begala

It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball.

Joe Wilcox

It would be huge for Microsoft if it could dispatch its problems with Europe,

John Tiziani

It would have been huge for us to come down here and steal one.

Barbara Stader

The whole system still has to be worked out. It's a huge undertaking.

Katrina Szish

The very Victorian white blouse is a huge trend for fall. Whether there's some lace or ruffle or it's like Seinfeld's puffy shirt, it's all very feminine.

Geoffrey Cassidy

There wouldn't have been a huge market for this sort of work at the time so this would be more of a personal thing for him.

James Zoltak

Reading the language in some of the recent filings, it seems very personal.

Renee Zellweger

The term 'fraud' as listed in the documentation is simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character.

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

David Hamilton

Everyone wants to do the right thing and meet the spirit of the legislation. The language now leaves so much up to each municipality. We need a cohesive plan that addresses everyone.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Consequently, a general-purpose programming language should support a variety of ways of thinking and a variety of programming styles.

Anna Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Stephane Mallarme

To give a purer sense to the language of the tribe.

Douglas William Jerrold

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Christopher Moore

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,

Jeff Johnson

He was saying, 'Look what I did at Microsoft and look what I can do for you.

Chris LeTocq

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Bill Gates

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Bill Gates

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Bill Gates

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Lil Wayne

Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.