Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Dennis Ross

They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Tori Amos

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.

Pat Riley

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton 's stature. He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team.

Atharva Veda

We should always try to acquire as much knowledge as possible but at the same time we should be careful not to let pseudo-knowledge influence us.

Atharva Veda

We should acquire power and strength so that we could vanquish our enemies and enjoy a long life full of happiness and prosperity and face death without fear.

John Bolton

We are aware of the Syrian efforts to acquire dual-use technologies that could be applied to a nuclear weapons program,

John Cochrane

This test is the first step toward an AIM-9X missile being launched vertically from a submarine. Ultimately, the missile will be encased in a launch capsule. When the capsule broaches the surface, the missile will launch and then acquire and engage its target.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Pat Bowlen

Arthur has a point. We have to be careful that we don't have owners put perks on it to help decide where we play the Super Bowl. I don't think it's there yet.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Jamie Campbell Bower

I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.

Ha-Joon Chang

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

Simon McBurney

When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

Richard Grasso

A separate entity would remove the cop on the beat, ... is not viewed as a profit drag, but ? as an investment in our brand and in building public confidence.

Greg Stuart

As consumers continue to embrace the Internet as an integral part of their everyday lives, marketers continue to acknowledge that interactive is a crucial medium to engage their customers and create deeper brand experiences.

Bill Douglas

Augusta is the perfect market for us to deliver our decentralized brand of banking,

Randy Bennett

As media proliferates, people have a variety of media choices, and competition for traditional media is pretty intense. Newspapers are seeing a slow, gradual decline in their readership. The question is, can a free newspaper without much of a brand enter the market? I think there are a lot of challenges for that sort of business model going forward.

Ulysses Yannas

No question this is a positive. Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

Ulysses Yannas

No question this is a positive, ... Kodak's strengths include wide product range, ease of use and a brand name with high recognition.

John Powers

The more exposures you get, the more exposures to your brand -- the Seattle brand -- the more people come to discover what a great community we live in.

Group Inc

The more direct connection with the customer, the better, ... This is our extension of the Neiman-Marcus brand into this new world.

Dan Goure

The money was not inconsequential before, and has become quite substantial. They're looking at non-college-bound high school graduates. Getting this kind of money is significant. They get a job, a steady paycheck and enough for a down payment on a brand new car.

H. Hunt

If we're financing our program ourselves, then we know our money's going to our program.

Luis Carriles

Listen well to that, ... I didn't say they were financing me. I said they were financing those operations, that's it.

Harold Evans

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Richard Ford

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The storm may lead to further evacuations. If the storm moves into the Gulf it will lead to a suspension of repairs and there may even be a contraction in production. We're taking no chances.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Chris Foster

As things get refined, we'll seek further input.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Pattie Boyd

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

Ashton Whidden

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

Bill Evans

The original mission of the Partnership for America's Future was to celebrate, enshrine and archive the great ideas of America's youth.

Mike Hayes

The most important role is they send golfers out at the right time so there's the appropriate spacing on the golf course.

Jane Seymour

Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Dennis Quaid

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Brian Weiss

I was on in two.... then again on four...

Ben Hogan

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Ben Hogan

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Ben Hogan

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

Clifford Heinzer

In 2001 at this time of year, those hills would have been a sea of pink and white.

John Hiatt

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

Steven Squyres

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Naveen Chopra

We went from a world where we were first, and now there are a number of other players in that market. But to have a third of the market . . . that's a very successful situation.

Phil Ramon

As for penalties, it hasn't even been discussed. Our position is we want them to return to work as quickly and as safely as they possibly can.

Ann Veneman

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

Juelz Santana

After a year with him I got to a position where I didn't have to do nothing in the street no more. But you have to be willing to work hard.

New Giants

So now we're in a position to have to explain, even further, every thing. It won't speed this along.

Nick Saban

It would be very unfair to put it on that position when things aren't being done well around them.

Francois Girbaud

is like accessory, with a different position on the body.

David Wilkins

I simply restated our position on the 12-mile territory limit. Period.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Shawn Perkins

We were in position to make tackles. We just didn't make the plays.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Graeme Smith

Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Rickey Henderson

Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Dustin Hoffman

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Thomas Huxley

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.

Sylvester Stallone

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.