Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

David Cole

A weak GM gave everybody an ability to do things without having to worry as much, ... As GM gets stronger, it's going to put more heat on people like DaimlerChrysler.

Tommy McWhorter

Austin had a great week of practice, and I thought his athleticism and jumping ability would help us on the boards.

Ben Smith

At times we showed an ability to mount an attack. But when you get behind that early it makes it hard to come back.

Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten.

Wasim Akram

Bangladesh have shown they have the talent and ability to play against any side in the world if they apply themselves, as they did (on the first day). It was a dream start.

James Matthews

A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with 300 pounds, what could he not do? It's almost appalling to think of; especially if he went among the English

Barbara Gordon

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity

David Orton

ATI has had challenges in the last couple quarters and we are obviously disappointed with our performance and our ability to predict the dynamics of our desktop channel business.

Safa Rashtchy

While this may be a slower increase than we saw in 2005, this takes Amazon further away, not closer, to its goal of double-digit margins.

Sucharita Mulpuru

At the end of the day, the toy business is not a huge part of the Amazon business overall. It's really only something that ramps up during holiday season, and they'll find other companies to help fill the void.

Maria Semple

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

Richard Sarnoff

We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit, ... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor.

Mark Rowen

We anticipate $601 million in total revenue and $385 million in U.S. book, music, video revenue from Amazon in the third quarter, ... Our $385 million books, music, video projection is flat with second-quarter results; however, if Amazon's sequential revenue growth in the sector actually comes in at 12 percent or higher, we believe the company could record as much as $650 million in total revenue.

Thomas Friedman

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Nicholson Baker

I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

Scott Turow

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.

David Card

Nothing ever replaces anything. When TV came along, radio didn't go away. This has the potential to unlock local ad dollars, but Amazon doesn't want to take phone calls.

Colin Morton

The business really does seem to be firing on all cylinders at the moment.

John Shanley

The business prospects on the international front continue to become more and more important for Nike.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

David Sharp

The business plans we've seen when 3G was put together show it's very difficult to make a return on your investment unless you set up a business community where you are all putting services through the infrastructure. That makes it very important for everyone to be working to standards.

Bill Hauck

The business plan raises a lot of questions. Is that other money going to materialize? Is this project the highest priority for federal funds at this point?

John Abraham

The business part is over with. It's time to get to the personal part, which is getting back with my teammates and getting ready for the season. For me, it's more getting ready to play for the first game, not trying to hurt the team.

John McCaul

The business owners and residents are very concerned.

David Janazzo

The business outlook for wholesale transport, IP services and consumer voice-over-IP remains opaque. But Level 3 now has more time.

Charles Dickens

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Bill Miller

The start of production and the first shipment to a customer represent significant milestones for MED. There is still much to do but we look forward to 2006 with confidence.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Zach Nelson

Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

Richard Levy

This is a tremendous opportunity to shape the legal industry's technology vision. It is a pleasure to work with a talented engineering team focused on customer satisfaction.

Jacob Arabo

Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction is guaranteed.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Andy Williams

I've discovered that there's another way of living that I have never known. Things have changed.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

Tom Page

We discovered it on March 29. She was gone when we found it.

Beeban Kidron

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Scott Barnes

I wanted her to look clean. Her hair is loosely up. She's just, like, I threw my hair up, my all-star T-shirt, and I am cool. It's all easy and relaxed because she is still young at this point.

Warren Shouldice

Stress City. There's a lot of nerves because you're kind of expected to make finals. It's tough because it's not as easy as it looks.

Chad Wampler

Some streets don't have curbs, it's not easy to monitor. That's one of the gray areas.

Joe Girardi

Some people always say (managing the Yankees) is an easy job because of all the players you're given. But that's not an easy job, because you're managing personalities, the press ... there's a lot to manage there and Joe's really good at it.

Jack Elliott

so to me that was an easy way to go.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Bob Gainey

One-goal games are easy to hide behind. One-goal games are two goals away from winning, and that's a lot in the NHL.

Brandon Bochenski

Now I can finally start gripping my stick a little less tight and start playing my game hopefully. It was a good way to get the first one. It just bounced right to me for an easy tap in.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Eduardo Ermita

He can be removed and, as a CESO, he can be moved to another place where his expertise can be utilized,

Tom Sykora

It's something we didn't have the expertise to do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Kathleen Booher

They're stepping out of their expertise when they're doing that.

Tom Starling

We get their expertise and their connections in the community, and they get to help.

Steve Willsey

We led them in. They had the rescue expertise but we had the knowledge of the cave.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Marc Guggenheim

As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.

J. J. Abrams

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

David Johansen

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

Stan Kroenke

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Mark Johnson

The Buckeyes lose all their linebackers to graduation. So there is a good opportunity for me there.

John Purtteman

The big thing now is there were a lot of good pieces in place, and now it's keeping them on board. Tom did a great job.

Tom Izzo

The Big Ten's going to miss Dee Brown. He's good for this league. He doesn't talk it, he walks it.

Donald Rumsfeld

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Alexander Lukashenko

The West will not spare any expenses, ... the last thing that we need.

Ron Ellis

The weather report last night said that the snow was going to be south of us.

Rob King

The weather is always tough. I mean it just snowed last week so you can never predict what's going to happen.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Wang Jisi

beset by more profound differences than any other bilateral relationship between major powers in the world today.

Jennie Finch

I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

Bob Schieffer

Anyway, that offer is not going to be made.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Carlos Gomez

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,

Gene Jr

We made an offer and they turned it down.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Gerard Houllier

Objectively, with 15 points to be distributed, it's won.

Daryn Kagan

Points for effort, if not using your smarts so much, Brian.

Valentino Castellani

For years we have been working on this ceremony, it will be one of the most important turning points of the Games.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Betsy Beers

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Quentin Jammer

This is football, ... You're not supposed to sit out there and let wide receivers run open. This isn't track.

Katie Gates

This is the first semester for Wellness Wednesdays. They will run every other Wednesday.

Gary Harris

This is no time to panic. We're not going to run out of gas.

John Fleming

This is still a test run for us,

Mike Gordon

That's why you play the whole game. Any team can make a run at any time.

Tory Hauser

Zach skied really well his first run but then his ski popped off. He was very disappointed.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all