Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Lance Bass

As long as I knew my family was OK, I felt very safe. When something doesn't affect you (directly), it's sometimes hard to get involved. But when the images come across the screen ... it hits home for everyone. You start to realize that, as a human being, you can do something.

Capt. Elkins

As it reached near the end of the runway, the pilot accelerated in an attempt to take back off and avoid a crash. Instead, the plane went down an embankment, through a fence and across King Avenue (Country Club Road) and ended up in a fence that secures Indian Pines Country Club.

Gary Glasscock

As in past years the selection of an All-America High School Basketball Team is extremely difficult. Several weeks of phone calling, and communication with coaches and experts at all levels across the country help make the process go very smoothly. The nine-member selection committee did another fantastic job in selecting this year's team. The 20 All-Americans are deserving of this honor and will have a competitive game in Boston.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

Pete Piringer

That person was killed, it looks, upon impact. But also that vehicle was struck by several other vehicles, causing additional damage.

Julie Parrish

Ours is similar to other opportunity registration programs that are out there. And the basic concept is that companies provide additional margin opportunities for partners who register opportunities with them.

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Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules

Leo Mullin

Delta will continue to work with United to formulate additional joint marketing programs to the benefit of both companies.

Paul Fitzhenry

An important component of the reorganization is the additional resources and more intense focus we're bringing to the U.S. market because of the size and critical importance of the U.S. to our business.

Jonathan Ravelas

The strong remittances and additional government spending this year should help mitigate the adverse impact of additional taxes and high oil prices on consumer spending.

Brent Ibata

The survey sent out with taxpayer dollars has many parents scared about their children's future. The threats include increasing class size to maximum levels, the addition of portable trailers for children, and the very hollow threat of year-round schools.

Phil Rist

The Super Bowl is becoming big business for retailers. In addition to purchasing hats and snacks, consumers will be purchasing high-end merchandise, like TVs and entertainment centers, which quickly raises total spending figures.

Sal Sinatra

The tests were inconclusive. We're having additional tests done by Cornell University, and I'm hoping we'll have some answers by Tuesday.

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Keith Edelman

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Zina Garrison

So much is owed to this legend. Althea helped me and other women to understand you can be all you can dream and more. The benefits of her contributions to tennis are still being realized and enjoyed by modern-day players.

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.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Warren May

The business climate is such that companies are finding it easy to expand and create jobs.

William Steele

Avon's international business is the key to its growth going forward. There's no disputing that,

Jon Tester

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

Bill Evans

Australia's two-speed economy remains intact with consumer spending subdued and housing in a downswing. By contrast, business investment is surging.

Robert Pitofsky

B2B electronic marketplaces offer great promise as means through which significant cost savings can be achieved, business processes can be more efficiently organized and competition may be enhanced,

Kathryn Gallagher

Bakersfield continues to grow and flourish in terms of needs for home improvement and services. Business is good in Bakersfield.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

Tim Sinicki

Zach Groh has been so dominant this spring. He's continued to recover and it's great to have him back out there.

Kevin O'Connor

During the past year, we continued to solidify our leadership position in online advertising,

Drew Matus

Between the move in the employment index and continued strength in new orders it suggests that the economy should continue to expand in the near term.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.

George Parnham

Continued hospitalization for Andrea will help her withstand the pressures and rigors of one more time of going back to this situation in front of a jury and in front of the public.

Peter Dunne

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Dontell Jefferson

Of course we don't want to cost the school any money, but as a player you want to have interaction like that.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Masaki Iso

Sony is like a supertanker and it will take some time for Stringer to turn the ship around. They haven't developed any new products that are selling well and they've only started cost reductions.

Mike Soule

Sometimes I make a little more money, sometimes I don't. It all goes to cover the cost of having bands.

Jan de Bont

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

Alexander Lebed

Tell me where we are going to get the money from? It will cost Russia $150 million.

Chris Mennis

The most temperature-sensitive products are the gas and the heating oil and that's what's moving the market.

Debra Moore

The way gas is today, wooh! ... Maybe you should ride the bus.

Ethan Harris

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

David Carter

The price of gas was still around $2.75 in Murphysboro, and in Carbondale it was $2.99, ... In Carterville it was $3.59, and with my Sam's discount, I'm paying $2.96 before it goes up.

Jeff Lenard

As the price of gas climbs, people's values decline.

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Irv DeGraw

What's going on is the market running out of gas at the end of the week.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

James Williams

Natural gas in storage remains very high for this time of year and the most recent production numbers indicate that, had it not been for the hurricane production, would have been much higher in 2005 than 2004.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.