Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Burnham

I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,

Richard Preston

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Mike McGuire

The key is how many Amazon customers already use existing online services.

Johannes Lehmann

The knowledge we can gain from studying the Amazonian dark earths, found throughout the Amazon River region, not only teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate.

Johannes Lehmann

The knowledge that we can gain from studying the Amazonian dark earths, found throughout the Amazon River region, not only teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate.

J. A. Konrath

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

Sean Badding

Amazon would serve itself well by having an open platform because that typically gets you to the sweet spot of the market: the masses. It is also probably a profitable venture to go into a subscription model, which gives customers more peace of mind to download without looking at how many music titles they are downloading.

Janet Fitch

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.

Safa Rashtchy

Amazon insists it is still on the path to double-digit operating margin, despite the fact the 2005 guidance distinctly suggests a reversal of this course with declining incremental operating margin. Clearly, something is amiss here.

Jennifer Black

Here you've got a situation where there is an opportunity for so many stores, and it suits a wide array of customers.

Darin Kath

It is interesting that you have a vast array of documentation, including the format, from some kind of memo to a very detailed appraisal.

Phil Gramm

The bill must benefit consumers by making the broadest array of financial services available at the lowest possible price, ... If it doesn't do that, then it's not worth having.

Dan Snyder

We are providing a roadmap for Core, which will provide better performance and less power consumption for a broad array of devices.

John Kimball

We believe that readership and circulation need to be looked at in tandem because today's newspaper's brand includes not just the core product but the leading local web site and an array of other products in that market as well.

Noam Chomsky

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Marie Rutkoski

Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.

Lindsay Mathews

The task force will open up a whole array of choices to save and conserve. We want to reach our goal of 20 percent by 2010.

Alvin Poussaint

Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men created all the vast array of complexions and skin tones in black Americans by copulating with black women.

Chris McKay

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

Norman Baker

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

Marco Rubio

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.

Todd Dawson

Hydraulic redistribution allows plants to continue fixing carbon and grow during the prolonged dry season.

Ben Hatfield

The impact of the carbon monoxide is the greatest danger. Progress has been slow.

Frances Beinecke

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

Lamar Alexander

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

Walter Higgins

All of forms of power generation create carbon. Some sort of carbon sequestration is the most likely intermediate-term carbon solution.

Richard Opper

They plan to use state-of-the-art boiler technology and activated carbon injection. Cleaner plants will come on line in the future as the technology advances. But right now, what SME is planning is just about as good as it gets.

Mike Thompson

He is short, single and has a mullet. But why would such a guy need a makeover, you ask? Hmmm ... That is a very tough question to answer. Maybe Mickey doesn't need a makeover, but some minor changes to his trendy and stylish habits.

Dale Walker

It changes (your game plan) some. You've got to put people in different positions, but we've done that some this year and I thought we did a pretty good job with that.

Billy Hite

I think it's very doubtful that he'll play, unless something changes here. I think he wants to play, but I don't think he's ready yet.

Don Schiemann

I think it's safe to say that, in varying degrees, there's a sense from all four parties that there are significant changes that are needed.

Dick Gephardt

It is only their insistence on tax cuts for the wealthy, to be funded by Medicare cuts or changes in the CPI, that we don't have a budget,

Shea Little

It is made of 18 panels, so we could disassemble it and work on parts of it in our individual areas, but no one person could really make sweeping changes to the whole painting, so it developed in a group setting.

Jason Isringhausen

When they started going over the itinerary, I told them I didn't want to do that. It wasn't about not getting ready. When I first committed, we didn't have all the information about how long we were going to be away. I just wasn't comfortable with that because of all the changes we've made. I wanted to be part of it here.

E. O. Wilson

When they go to Liz Claiborne and find out that you have to study mathematics (and) you have to know computer technology, that changes what you think you'll take next year in school.

Dale Hedges

We made some changes that hurt us. We are a much better team right now, and I know we can play with them.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Matt Fidler

What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.

Tom Peterson

We've got to let ourselves play well at critical times in the match. Sometimes, we didn't even get swings.

Paul Anderson

I'm loving this kind of critical polarity. It's the first time it's happened to me and I'm actually getting off on it a little bit.

Tom Watson

I'm very grateful to have been able to make those critical putts at the right time. The greens tested your skill with the flat stick. I finally got used to in the last round.

Michael Robotham

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

John Koskinen

Information and the exchange of information is a critical part of being able to remediate Y2K problems worldwide.

Aaron Lazar

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

Mark Friedman

increasingly uncertain outlook about revenue growth in the critical holiday season.

Jim Lane

Hunters are doing an excellent job. The heavy mast crop kept the deer in the woods which made them less vulnerable.

Joe Newton

I wanted the flexibility to treat my crops as needed without waiting on someone else.

Jan Johnson

It's kind of like a double crop. Farming your crop on land and harvesting the wind.

Lester Brown

They?re losing 900 square miles of either grazing land or crop land per year.

Jane Rissler

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.

Mark McCaslin

The technology works. It's been proven effective ... in a number of different crop species.

Trey Smith

Strawberries are having a great crop and everything else is looking good. This year, overall, we should have a really good crop.

Dan Brown

I see no truth whatsoever in stories of extraterrestrial visitors, crop circles, the Bermuda Triangle, or many of the other "mysteries" that permeate pop culture.

Arturo Rodriguez

This does really provide a model for guest workers to be treated with dignity. But also at the same time, for agricultural employers to ensure they have the workers to get their crops harvested.

Joe Newton

I wanted the flexibility to treat my crops as needed without waiting on someone else.

Jane Rissler

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.

Arturo Rodriguez

This does really provide a model for guest workers to be treated with dignity. But also at the same time, for agricultural employers to ensure they have the workers to get their crops harvested.

Jane Rissler

The fact that terminator technology will work to the disadvantage of the subsistence farmer who depends on harvesting seeds for the next year's crops illustrates the intent of the companies, which is to get the maximum return on their investment,

Alexei Gordeyev

We estimate that about 30% of the winter crops are dead as of today.

Yoweri Museveni

I don't think we are destroying people's crops. We are destroying rebel crops and stores.

Savitri Devi

Our houses and crops have been damaged. We have incurred loss of hundreds of thousands of rupees.

Howard Graham Buffett

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.

Ralph Merkle

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

Tony Scott

Here's someone who loves touching the dark side.

Zach Galligan

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

Rose McIver

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Rob Brydon

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Richard Paul Evans

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Richard Dawkins

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

Richelle Mead

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

Richelle Mead

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Russell Baker

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Ken Bacon

We have not degraded it to that point. But we're only in the second day.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Emanuel Brown

He's a senior and he wanted to finish, but unfortunately the trainers didn't want him to get up until they found out if it was muscle or bone.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Jan Roberts

He's a wonderful person. He's a positive role model for all these kids. He found his passion and worked for it.

Navtej Sarna

There is need for genuine dialogue. The solution has to be found by the people of Nepal through a peaceful but political settlement. We are ready to help in any way we can.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Howard Dean

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Brian McCutcheon

He had to gain a much better understanding of when to try one-on-one hockey and when he could try some of the moves he has.

Richard Swain

He is a great tactician who will gain the utmost respect from the players.

John Kirby

help them gain a voice on their job.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Rod Stewart

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Bobby Bowden

What do you lose? I think you probably lose your most solid, mature, leader and blocker.

Two Chainz

I see myself as a leader and not a follower.

Thomas Berger

We may not get a leader who is as cooperative as Koizumi.

Bill Grant

He was not only a leader of the party, but he was a confidant of the party as well.

H. Hunt

He was our only returning senior who played a lot, and I thought maybe he would try and be the man, but he was our leader in the way he played team basketball.

Quincy Douby

I am a leader on this team, and I'm the one taking a lot of the big shots in big games. It was my time to step up and take control.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Yogendra Yadav

He has become president precisely because he is a weak leader and no one thinks he would be a long term threat to them.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Alexander Lebed

I know for sure that Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is a very sick person. He must resign because of his poor health.

George Ayittey

Africa is poor because she is not free.

Eric Hoffer

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Emily Giffin

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Nina Simmons

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Nick Hays

There's nothing that would prevent them from applying. They would, however, be required to go through the same licensing procedures as any other client.

Erin Runnion

I don't think there's a way to prevent this,

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Cheryl Ward

They look like river ships, but scaled up.

Lacey DeWeert

It was just too much River and not enough Kelso tonight.

Patti Smith

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

Ovid

Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

Ovid

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

Matthew Fox

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Rhianna Pratchett

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Tory Burch

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Rudy Giuliani

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

William O. Douglas

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support, the greater it curtails human freedom.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.