Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Stephen Briggs

Remorseless buying of precious metals by investors has pushed prices higher. Quietly behind in the background is dollar weakness.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Chip Babcock

There are so many insiders from the top and bottom who have pleaded guilty. I'm not sure as a juror I'd be too suspicious of them.

Gary Sheffield

The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Don Cooper

We took it out for a little test run, and it was as much mental for him as it was physical. But the bottom line is he's feeling good.

Alex Sanchez

We told them we understand that they are concerned about excessive risk. We also said we don't want the bottom to fall out of the market.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Bob Stoops

If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Andy Roberts

Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Bill Nelson

And in the second year it was doubled again. That's not realistic today. But 5 percent a year increases are not going to get us to the moon.

Rick Santelli

Every October there's always increases or drop-offs, and I think this year will be no exception.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Paul Newsome

Rate increases is one of a number of questions that personal lines companies, like Allstate, will face.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Woody Williams

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

John Challenger

Summer is always a slow job-cut time. Management is away, and vacations are going on,

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Mike Hultz

He was unbelievable. It was probably the second best, not points-wise, but overall performance I have seen live.

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

Waisale Serevi

But rugby is the overall winner in the end.

Amy Bloom

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Zig Ziglar

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

John Carpenter

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

Gedde Watanabe

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.