Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Peris

The Internet as a tool means all the leading retailers are going to be on the Internet in the next couple of years. The pure selling concept over the Internet has proven not to work and the pure plays are gong to be surpassed by traditional retailers.

O. Henry

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

Andy Kaufman

The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

Mark Ritchie

The idea is to come up with a concept in a time frame that Iron County can incorporate in its long-term planning.

Michael Behe

Creationism is a theological concept but intelligent design is a scientific theory. One can be a creationist without any physical evidence. That's 180 degrees different from intelligent design.

Joe Queenan

Taylor ushered in the poisonous concept of soft rock.

Niklas Zennstrom

It was more a technical proof of concept that it was possible to transfer files between two end users rather than going through servers.

Martin Baird

No matter what your guest satisfaction surveys say even if satisfaction is in the stratosphere it doesn't matter. Research doesn't support the concept that customer satisfaction predicts growth.

Rep Clymer

It just reinforces the concept that there is an easy way to make money. It's fool's gold they are looking at.

Kevin Sneddon

Just really disappointed in the third goal; it really took the wind out of our sails. That was just a really soft goal.

Lisa Fernandez

[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Brandi Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Frank Beamer

We had a streak . . . it's not all Florida. We had a lot of soft commitments going on. I thought they were just making a reservation with us and going to look at some other schools. I didn't think that was the way to do it.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Bonnie Henrickson

This is not a knee-jerk thing. We've just go to get better. Ivana and Taylor will be the first ones off the bench.