Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Davis

Acquisition has certainly been an ongoing strategy, and certainly this is an opportunity to accelerate that.

John Ray

These settlements represent the latest in a series of achievements aimed at resolving significant claims in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. We are pleased that these settlements enable us to collect additional value for the creditors, and, at the same time, resolve claims against the estate so that we can accelerate distributions to all creditors.

Brad Nisbet

The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year. Data growth was one driver, but the availability of affordable systems that support multiple tiers of storage to address data protection, business continuity requirements, and online, active archives also contributed.

James Phillips

Brian and David are both extremely talented individuals with a keen sense for emerging market opportunities, and broad-based experience in capitalizing on them. We look forward to tapping into their industry expertise as we further accelerate the development of market-leading products and execute on our go-to-market strategy.

Martin Coles

As Starbucks continues to accelerate its international expansion, we must perpetually build stronger infrastructures that will allow us to meet the Company's strategic growth objectives. Cliff's and Julio's past successes, extensive experience, knowledge of the business and Starbucks culture, as well as Phil's credentials in the restaurant and retail industries, are strong indicators that these leaders will provide the foundation we need in the region to reach our long-term goal while continuing to deliver our legendary service and the Starbucks Experience to our customers.

Lynn Franco

Consumers' upbeat mood about current business and labor conditions underscores the economy's continuing recovery, but the latest retreat in expectations suggest that the pace of economic growth will not accelerate in the months ahead,

Joe Karaganis

We are going to be pursuing legal remedies in every form we can to accelerate the appellate process.

Todd Bradley

The converged device market is growing at more than 60 percent a year. This realignment positions the handheld team to more clearly focus on navigating this fast-paced market while PSG continues to accelerate its trend of profitable growth.

Martin Jacques

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.

Paul D. Boyer

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

Chris Maher

We think that this technology has a lot of other applications. It can be applied to a whole range of problems that require tight linkage between data and computation -- tsunami warning devices (where you have a lot of data coming in and you have to make quick decisions), homeland security applications, medical imaging systems and so on. So there are a lot of other potential applications for this kind of technology.

Chris Licursi

There is no surgery involved. It's like a contact lens with hair injected into it. Then using medical adhesive it is applied to the person's head.

Robert Pozen

There is no single rule that can be applied in deciding whether or not to limit new purchases in a given fund,

Orrin Hatch

This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.

Steve Miller

Obviously as we get into our discussions going forward, the reductions that GM has made are going to be naturally applied to the Delphi situation,

Wayne Oakes

Based on reasonable and probable grounds, dangerous driving was the most reasonable offence that applied to the four individuals charged.

Craig Maurer

I feel the valuation applied to that business (Western Union) has been severely depressed by being part of the whole First Data. I think the remaining businesses will be a significantly less attractive investment.

Bob Mancini

My issue with the whole thing is that I don't believe that they applied the rules correctly. They way I understand it ... is the referees are in charge. They're supposed to have a decision. They need to call goal or no goal and (in replay) determine whether it's conclusive or inconclusive. I'm looking forward to talking to the league tomorrow.

Ian Thomas

Under a code share relationship, it's very much a commercial relationship that allows the carriers to operate independently, even though they might be sharing seats on the same aircraft.

David Burks

The consumer long-distance sector is viewed as an albatross for all of the long distance carriers these days. AT&T is not the only one considering such an action.

David Stewart

At last count, there were about 50 low-cost carriers in Europe, which is totally unsustainable.

Tom Parsons

As we forecasted yesterday, it took less than 24 hours for the five remaining legacy carriers to match Delta's moves.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Diane Sawyer

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Jane Goodall

Angelina is living proof of the power we all have ù every one of us ù to make a difference. I was deeply moved by her descriptions of individual refugees struggling to live with dignity and hope, and found her personal commitment to be an inspiration.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

David Krell

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

Amelia Torres

At present consumers should be considering energy savings.

Alan Davidson

Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, something many consumers may not want known.

Steve Case

We do not intend to limit content diversity on any of our systems. If we limit content, if we do not promote a diversity of voices ... then consumers will waste no time migrating to other Internet and media services.

Richard Lobb

There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.

Amy Poehler

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

Robert Greene

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

Howard Rheingold

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

Linus Torvalds

I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 'anti-DRM' measures aren't all that wonderful after all. Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM.' They very much are 'good security' too.

Rodney Brooks

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Nicholas Negroponte

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Gary Shapiro

They truly illustrate the progress of technology in the digital age,

Don Scardino

Studios are so used to digital now, and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors; everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital, and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at.

Edgar Bronfman

We are now seeing digital gains outpacing physical sales (in the United States).

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tyler Fleck

The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less.

Dan DiMicco

Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control.

Kamal Sharma

The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

Andreas Renschler

There won't be a total downturn ... overall we expect a slight weakening next year and I think all manufacturers are saying this.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

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.

Bill Fisher

If industry can't find an answer, then there isn't one.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Halle Berry

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

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.

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Amy Goodman

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Rush Limbaugh

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Tony Clark

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Eckhart Tolle

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Bruce Brown

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

David Bowie

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

John McKinley

Ultimately, you get to a point where you want to take the next hill. I really wanted to get back to a role in a technology organization.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Dale Carnegie

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.