Famous Quotes & Sayings

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One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Dennis Ross

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

William Heine

The analysis said the bridge needs to be completely replaced. The plan is to build a new bridge to the north, so there is a better (road) alignment when you come out of Red Bank.

Paul Colton

The announcement is a lot about messaging and a lot about focus, ... We said, 'Let's align ourselves more closely with the release schedule of Microsoft and not force developers into something they don't want to use right now.

David Dyer

We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,

Craig McCollum

We invest millions of dollars every year, and now more than half is being aligned through vertical marketing efforts for partners. This is a significant shift for us, because two years ago we weren't doing that at all." ()

Jonathan Schwartz

We intend to supply more than simple investment, by bringing to bear the experience and perspective that's put Sun in a leadership position on the Internet, ... We're looking forward to promoting the success of companies aligned with Sun's vision, and broadening our strategic portfolio.

Jim DeMint

I think the technology pretty much exists, we just need to align it with existing government warning systems,

Marla Backer

I think they're looking to align themselves with a much bigger player and I think that means someone tucking in Imax within a bigger corporate structure that can then help them ... attain some of these goals.

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

Whitey Ford

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Bob Iger

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

Desiree Rogers

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

Natalie Massenet

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

Fareed Zakaria

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

Kathy Murray

(The academy) offers brand new teachers the support they need to get through that very difficult first year. It is a brand new experience and most of what you learn in college is straight from a book. That (classroom) experience is really quite different.

Richard Hayne

The Anthropologie brand continues to succeed in emotionally engaging its customers while delivering strong financial results.

Edward Whitacre

The AT&T brand reflects what customers are looking for. They want the latest technology and services but they also want reliability, quality and trustworthiness. Only the AT&T brand offers this ideal combination of traits.

Aya Traore

That was tough losing, but we know that the (NCAA) tournament is the start of a brand new season and it's one and done from here on out. We're playing teams that we don't know and haven't played so far, so we have to stay focused this week.

Rob Stillwell

We have two very solid brands to build upon, and I think it's safe to say the casino will either be one or the other.

Denis Leary

Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'

Nash Grier

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

Mark McKinnon

Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'

Roger Entner

You can get your hometown local news channels while you're on vacation in a country where you don't understand the language.

Jonathan Grayer

We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.

Patrick Cleary

You always have to go through the proper permitting channels and we still have a pretty long way to go, but we think it's going as smoothly as it possibly can.

Hideo Kojima

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.

David Zaslav

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

Robert Brady

Ports in the United States and throughout the world have undertaken projects to deepen their channels in order to accommodate larger vessels.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Jim Hamilton

The announcement is really just setting the stage for a new era in process color. Customers prefer incremental change. They don't like to take big steps.

Jeff Garcia

We have an entire team dedicated to ensuring that the needs of our Marketing Planner customers are exceeded.

Jim Henderson

We have always offered free delivery to our customers.

Stuart Rose

We have already received such positive feedback from customers we will be extending the range further this autumn.

Martin George

We have worked very hard on efficiency and productivity (so) we can put lower fares in the market place, give customers better value for money and make money,

David Hillenbrand

We have to understand who our customers are,

Bill Newman

We have three dedicated lines just to handle the calls. Once the drivers learn their routes and the customers become familiar with their pickup days, then the problem will go away.

Mike Moore

We were hired by customers to get out of their contracts. It showed what a difficult industry this is to understand.

Zadie Smith

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Steve McNamara

That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it.

Scott Graf

That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that.

Marsha Lowry

We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.

Jim Butler

Virtually every new development and even existing project owners are looking at a residential component.

Kenneth Lay

I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions.

Steve Johns

It fit perfectly into the existing kitchen space.

Dave Eskelsen

We couldn't find a willing seller around the existing substation.

P. James

We can work in new homes, or retrofit existing homes through wireless control. We're making homes more fun, energy-efficient places to live. There's no one around here like us.

Laura Behrens

Plenty of them are putting their stuff out there in the hopes of being found by the existing system.

Danny Meyer

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Naomi Shihab Nye

I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can.

Frank Jordan

Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.

Sander Levin

Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.

Alex Rodriguez

We couldn't get that extra hit to extend an inning or score a run.

Bert Hochfeld

I think the stock had been very extended in terms of valuation, in any event, so I think it was very vulnerable to something like this, ... I think that the valuation of the shares at several hundred times revenues was so extreme that it didn't take much.

Jusuf Kalla

We are now evaluating the possibility of extending AMM.

Martin Rees

There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is.

Russ Ortiz

I was trying to extend my running to make sure I was ready and felt something, and that's kind of where we're at right now.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Rassie Erasmus

We have to win to regain momentum. Winning is all we are interested in.

Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Jeff Fisher

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

Mark Goddard

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

R. Ingram

Mr. Smith was the first person in the door, so to speak,

Bill Donovan

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me while we waited. He always made me feel at home.

William Cowper

And the first smith was the first murderer's son.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Gideon Sam

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Alan Rudolph

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Andy Gray

If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score

David Buik

It is a takeover target as well, to be candid. Someone is going to have a nibble.