Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

Gayle King

I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.

Nicki Minaj

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

John Perry Barlow

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

Rose George

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Deb Kapp

Riders said they were thrilled that someone had donated bananas at the museum when they stopped. They were surprised to learn that they had gone to that effort for the bikers. What started as a small, little welcome really blossomed into a marketing event.

Tyler Cowen

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

Jennifer Black

Gap is regaining market share, and its marketing initiatives continue to benefit the company. The company last fall reduced its product assortment by 30 percent at its namesake store and at its Old Navy and Banana Republic divisions. So it's moving away from the overly fashion-forward mix and narrowing its product lines.

Guy Maddin

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Ben Martinez

I also depart from this portion of my life with a great sense of pride having played an integral part of the many projects and programs that will benefit National City residents in the coming years.

Francisco Gonzalez

Having a Club Manager with such diverse experience at the executive level will be of great benefit to the club. We are excited and are looking forward to Oscar bringing the Club to the next level.

Bill Clinton

Former adversaries can come together to find common ground in a way that benefits all their people, to let go of the past and embrace the future, to forgive and to reconcile.

Scott Kaupin

It could be a key benefit if we get a rail station in there.

Arthur Levin

I think the issue here is that you want the labeling to reflect the most current science. But at the same time you wouldn't want to change it to overplay the benefit of a single study and downplay the body of all other research.

Jim Oberweis

I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Robert Lang

I think you go there and you do sort of get a little jump start just from being with your buddies and playing a little bit different hockey. I think a lot of guys, even the guys from Swedish team, even though Hank played really good before, now, he's even playing better than he was before, just kind of effortless. So I think all of us sort of benefit from that and it's just nice.

John Taylor

I think the DC is in a position to benefit for the shortage. Sega's key strategy now is to identify Dreamcast with online gaming ... If Sega can get that grounded, then I think the Dreamcast is in a position to stick around for a long time.

Italian Proverb

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

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.

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Fred Eckhard

He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Mark Richt

I would think he is going to roll into the fall as the No. 1 guy. I still haven't seen anything to make me think we shouldn't do that.

Shaquille O'Neal

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'

Kevin Callahan

Her focus is on the important issues now. The fall is the time to focus on campaigning.

David Holmes

I think the market is very healthy. With investors still waiting on the sidelines to get in, I just don't see the market falling away.

Steve Pemberton

Last fall was dreadful. I think the market is better now than last fall.

Paul Woolpert

I was completely positive at halftime. I knew we were too good to shoot 25 percent. We just had to keep working and I knew things would fall into place.

Marissa Young

We talked at halftime that we were going to get the good basket. We knew we're a good enough shooting team that they were going to fall sometime. They weren't falling in the first half.

Kevin Hart

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Clay Norton

We've got to have a little fortune fall our way. Winning on Friday would be very important because I feel like we play very well at home.

Rick Sweet

He keeps hitting gaps and running, and he's 30-plus (actually 32) years old. He's the one who told me, 'I guess I'm just getting old.' But it's hard on you with all that running, especially as hot as it is.

Amy Butcher

The gap between what Stephen Harper and the Conservatives practice and what they preach is as wide as the St. Lawrence.

Bob Gray

That is too long to walk. You can't have any gaps in the street.

Dwyane Wade

It's all about being aggressive. I saw a lot of gaps tonight.

David Zuniga

We're still lacking that big hit to knock in those big runs. We're not striking out every time, but we are still looking for the gaps and I think we might just be trying too hard for it.

Domhnall Gleeson

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

George Leung

The widening rate gap between the U.S. and HK in the later part of 2006 will likely be accompanied by a strong HK dollar.

Joseph Beaulieu

This is the first that I've heard of Gap actually revealing what their growth plan is for the brand.

Charles Adams

You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Courtney Smith

I think we'll probably see an up session in the market over the next several days.

Howard Ward

I think what we're seeing in the market is the reflection of a lot of uncertainty right now,

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Sue Jones

He has tremendous communications and marketing skills. He already has revamped our Web site and started a newsletter.

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Henry Ford

Minicars produce miniprofits.

Bruce Perens

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

Paul Young

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

Randeep Hooda

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

Seth

The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path.

Seth

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

David Carr

In preseason, we used it (a three-step drop) a lot because we wanted the repetitions, but now that the season's beginning, we have to mix it up and do some things down the field,

Adam Timmerman

It helps, just the mixing it up. It's nice when we're pushing them back and running the ball.

Bruce Arena

(Ching) is right in the mix right now.

David Milne

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

John Wells

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

Lewis Carroll

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

Mari Pehkonen

It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.

Douglas Altabef

It's a mixed picture. There's no question that the news is a lot better, but it may be priced into the market.

Susan Tissot

It'll be an interesting mix of the past and the present.

Joseph Allen

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,

Alan Black

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Two Chainz

The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

Rob Reiner

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it.

Rob Sheffield

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

Rob Zombie

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

Richard John Neuhaus

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

Richard Dawkins

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.

Richard Whately

Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

William Manchester

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

Michael Jasny

It's time for the Navy to stop this needless infliction of harm.

Patrick O'Brian

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Frank B. Kellogg

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

Frank B. Kellogg

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

Alan Shepard

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Gary Boyd

The second wave of Navy planes was called back after the announcement came,

James Young

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

Seymour Cassel

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Bill Harris

Our Quicken product had the most profitable season in its 15-year history,

Michael Wittner

If there is a bearish theme, it's about U.S. product demand.

Paul Clarke

This is more about long-term, ... When product No. 3 or (No.) 4 comes along, you're ready.

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Joe Gibbs

That is my responsibility. Obviously, we want to be more productive than we were in the playoffs.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Robert Toombs

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Mike Pence

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

John Kasich

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

Lewis Black

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

Philip Green

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.