Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

We intend to be the benchmark of collegiate football polls.

Daniel Barcelo

We continue to see Exxon Mobil as the benchmark for operational performance in the sector. On ROCE (return on capital employed), Exxon Mobil continues to lead the industry and we see this leadership sustained through our forecast period through 2009.

Robert Rosen

The problem is, unless you are benchmarking your own work, it is hard to decide what value the benchmark has. Usually it is just another data point and it allows you to compare two different systems.

William Sullivan

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

Tiger Woods

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

Jackson Wong

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.

Ellen MacArthur

Francis has set us another very high benchmark - the chances of breaking it are very slim but if we don't try, we won't know.

James Preissler

The perception here is that traffic on the Internet was weak and, definitely, Yahoo!'s numbers are going to be used as a proxy or benchmark for the other players in the space.

Mike Babcock

There are a whole bunch of teams right now that think they have an opportunity. Everybody looks at us and says, 'If they did it, we can do it.' The measure of a great coach, player and organization is the test of time. Being recognized as good isn't a one-time thing, so you have to hang around to earn that. That's what Detroit and New Jersey have done by each winning three Cups in a 10-year span. If you want to be a benchmark team, you have to do it again.

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Rex Wilmouth

We're all trying to come together to make it work for the industry and for the consumer.

Gerald Brown

With all the industry we've lost, this will be a shot in the arm.

Jake Brace

We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.

Ryan Ford

I worry about, consider, and question everything that I'm doing.

Geena Davis

will happen. It's just a question of when.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.