Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Langford

The roof was being worked on and the fire began on the roof. That's what we know.

Dav Pilkey

It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants, ... Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

Joel Kocher

It was a challenging quarter for Micron Electronics. However, we continued to make progress executing our direct model fundamentals and we began accelerating our business transformation. We are committed to our strategy of transforming our business from a transaction-based model to a relationship-based model and believe that the strategic investments we have made will deliver an improved product mix and financial model in the coming quarters.

Dave Stockwell

It was about a little more want; a little more desire; and a little more heart. .... (The way we began the game) we're better than that -- we will be better than that.

John Dillon

These second-quarter results continue the favorable trend in industry conditions that we began to see earlier this year, ... We will be divesting or closing operations that no longer meet the company's financial or strategic objectives.

Roman Coppola

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.

Helane Becker

The shares are down obviously on the New York Times article. That's the only news that came out before the stock began to fall,

Stephen Frears

These were women who did not make a habit of taking their clothes off in public before they began performing at the Windmill. I suppose we could view all of this as politically incorrect, but the truth is that what happened at the Windmill brought many people together as a means of escaping the tragedy that was surrounding them.

Bobby May

That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

David Emanuel

As costs come down, we expect to see others follow suit with free services. We really believe there's a demand. It's the fastest way people are getting on line.

Grady Sizemore

As a player, you don't care about payroll, ... You believe you can compete and it's not about how much money you spend.

Joe Girardi

As a player, it?s you?re job to play when called upon. As a coach, I believe it?s your job to teach and to make suggestions. But now you have to sort through all those suggestions. It?s different.

Joe Girardi

As a catcher I believe you manage every day you're on the field.

Joe Girardi

As a catcher, I believe you manage every day you go on the field because you are an extension of the manager,

Susan Pittman

As a general principle, and at this sensitive time, we believe that dialogue is important and we encourage Egypt and Israel to maintain the closest possible contacts.

John Tauer

As a function of us wanting to believe we can cheer our team on to victory, we feel much closer to those individuals.

Ken Banks

As a company, who would you rather lose market share to, yourself or someone else? It is the competitive nature of the business that you watch your competition goes. You either lead or follow, but you always want a share of the market.

Charles Pena

As a company's fortunes fare, so do the CEOs and other top managers, and that is the way it should work in the business world,

Kathleen Hogan

As an ENERGY STAR partner, Marriott has distinguished itself by demanding superior energy performance in their business and seeing real results. Through ENERGY STAR, these Partners of the Year are leading a nationwide effort to protect our environment through improved energy efficiency.

Nikesh Arora

As and when further business models evolve on the mobile devices, we'll deal with that as we go along.

James Packer

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

Carolyn Thomas

As a kid on Saturday night, the streets were full. Now the only business we get is from the (Museum of the Middle Appalachians).

J. Horton

The business we're in is filling our airplanes, and we're going to fill as many of those seats we can.

Mike Moran

The business sector is worse than previously believed. And exports were softer than indicated by initial estimates.

Eric Lascelles

The business sector in Canada continues to grow at a moderate pace.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Paul Johansen

Deer season is coming around this fall and people will be able to go out and hunt.

Sami Kapanen

Comparing the two, this one feels more special, coming back here and getting one in overtime. I'll take this one.

Martin Pyykkonen

Compared to the blow-out revenue numbers in recent quarters, what it's showing is coming in right at the mean.

Hilary Cook

Companies are feeling prepared to buy. We'll see more announcements coming through. It's a good thing for stocks.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Sherri Saum

A family is a group of people who are committed to loving and supporting one another. It's just that simple.

Anthony DeFazio

AFR remains committed to the St. Petersburg market. We are now marketing the building's existing vacancy.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Anthony Zinni

I sense everyone is committed to get out of this terrible situation. I think in the next few days we can start on my mission and the implementation of the plan that we've brought.

Jim Doyle

The ripples of Hurricane Katrina will touch every state and I remain committed to do all that we can to help minimize the devastation ... and restore hope,

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.

Kevin McCarty

Despite the unprecedented string of catastrophic hurricanes, it is reassuring to see a continued interest from new investors,

Jon Johnson

A number of unrelated factors contributed to (the decline in value) and have continued to keep that price low.

Beatriz Merino

A prolonged deterioration in the security environment could relegate economic reforms from the government's top priorities and damage Israel's economic growth prospects and potentially widening fiscal deficits. Conversely, continued progress with the implementation of economic reforms and rapid debt reduction, supported by a stable security environment, could improve the ratings prospects for Israel.

Scott Kriens

The second quarter represents an example of our priorities during these times customer growth, financial discipline, and continued investment in innovation.

Anthony Chan

The small improvement in labor market conditions, despite the continued risks that remain on this front, do suggest that even with all the caveats that Greenspan echoed in his latest testimony ... the Fed might be inclined to move towards a neutral risk bias.

Hubertus Erlen

The strong net sales increase in the first quarter is the continued reflection of our dynamic growth trend of the last year. These excellent figures will propel us towards reaching our set goals for 2006.

Christian Camargo

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Ryan Robbins

What's great about having a sci-fi/fantasy show start on the web: that's a gigantic part of your demographic right there. It targets a significant part of your demographic when you deliver online.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

Anthony Anderson

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

Eli Segal

Sen. Kerry, you promised to deliver the records. When are they going to be delivered? The people of New Hampshire want to know.

Mark Sanders

Perry has six years of failure to deliver property tax relief and now three ridiculous tax schemes without even a legislative sponsor of this one.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Ted Moskonas

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

E. Hurley

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

Charli Thorne

Offensively, we are working too much individually. We've gotten away from working together in our motion offense and executing our two-man game.

Chris Lofton

This is Rupp Arena. It's hard to win up here. I think they felt like they had to win. This their home court, and you're supposed to protect your home court. But we never give up. We just keep executing plays and doing what we've got to do to win the game.

Michael Harrison

We did a good job of executing at the end of the game. Most of the time, we don't even get shots up. Jason got a good look, and Cory got a good look.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Mainly, we've been in every game at the end. But we haven't been executing like we know we can at the end of games.

Steve Blake

I didn't know it was that low. It's the result of too many turnovers, not executing on offense and not making shots. It's real frustrating.

Tom Colby

We've given up shorthanded goals and power play goals all year long, but we had them piled on us in the same game. We just weren't executing well at that point.

Charli Thorne

I think we're at a point in our program where we can pretty much match up with anybody. I think we've proven that throughout the season. It doesn't necessarily mean we're going to come out on top, but it's pretty fun to be in a situation where you go into a game and it's just a question of executing your game plan.

Tony Sabatino

I thought one of the big keys is the fact we made a much higher percentage of three-point goals the second half. We did a nice job executing and finding an open guy.

Robert Doll

This merger combines highly complementary product in terms of markets, geography, expertise and talent. As always, when you see that on paper the trick is executing and making it work. That's the task in front of us.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Miroljub Labus

There are no financial means in the country.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system,

Cisco Systems

disclosed all required financial information about the holdings of our officers and directors.

Patricia Scherschel

Consolidation is an important financial option. You want to make the right decision, so do your homework before you sign on the dotted line.

Salih Mutlaq

To be honest, we don't have the financial resources. We don't have any television channels.

H. Hart

We are always vulnerable as a financial center, as we have been for the last three decades.

Kris Everson

We didn't mean to hurt anybody. We did it out of financial reasons.

Bernie Sanders

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Tim Brown

Currituck is much improved from when we saw a little over a month ago.

Kristi Clemens

We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11.

Gary Green

With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team.

Lance Manning

We improved as the scrimmage went on. In the later part, we played a lot better.

James Perry

We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Jeff Bridges

I've always tried to mix up my roles as much as I can.

Jesse Harris

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

Vicki Kramer

It was the perfect mix of ingredients for West Nile.

Michael Socha

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Dale Decker

The mix will stick to the rubber tires on the pneumatic rollers.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.

Steve Tuttle

There are some pepper sprays that don't mix well with Tasers.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Cameron Crowe

And yeah, she would put 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' on it. You do go for some obvious stuff when you make a mix tape because it reinvents itself.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

James Allan

It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

Ben Affleck

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line. We think microprocessors were OK,

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line, ... We think microprocessors were OK.

Dennis Anderson

The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.

Ken Hamlin

We had the right product at the right time.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Strobe Talbott

These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.

Ayn Rand

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Derrick Bell

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Glenn Reicin

We view this as a relatively uneventful quarter for Abbott.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

Tony Robbins

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Fred Wilson

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.