Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Ricky Barnes

As of right now I'm planning to play these next six tournaments well enough to avoid Q-School. It's really, really iffy right now so I need a couple of good weeks.

Jon Daniels

As important as he is to the club on the field, to the organization, to this community, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting where effectively we're paying lawyers to tell independent arbitrators how little we think of Mark. We wanted to avoid that. He shared that sentiment with us. It's a mutually beneficial deal.

Bob Motzko

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Carol Thorp

Prices rose 4 cents today (in San Diego), and that is not unusual lately. There is profit-taking; no one can avoid that conclusion.

John Ashcroft

Our efforts have been crafted carefully to avoid infringing on constitutional rights, while saving American lives.

Sen Hawkins

People take you out to dinner. It's just a normal practice down here, but I have made it a point to avoid doing such a thing.

William Millar

People are trying to avoid the high cost of gasoline by using public transportation.

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Tom Barrett

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.

Chris Patterson

Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

Bob Fox

Think about the people that have maybe 100 horses. That's thousands of dollars for them this year.

Stephen Wood

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

Alex Knott

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing.

Brian Jacques

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Bruce Kovner

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

By reducing the number of plasmids, we increase the efficiency of virus production,

Zig Ziglar

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Bryan Williams

The students know that we have a long-term goal this year, and they've been sticking to it. They've been making a lot of sacrifices and we've been doing very well.

Brian Durocher

The third goal in the first period was big for them. We could have made it 2-1 on the power play, but it wasn't meant to be.

Steve Struzyk

After our last two trips here - we got blanked one year and last year they pretty much owned us - this was a little payback. Our goal was to get a quick start this year, so this was huge for us.

Bobby Gaston

Actually, our goal is to have no plays overturned by instant replay.

Orlando Early

Southeastern has a similar record to us, but start two seniors and three juniors. We will have to go down there and be ready for a tough game. Our goal though has to be to keep working hard and try to get better everyday.

Mike Johnson

Special teams played such a big role. Getting that 5-on-3 goal was huge. We were on our heels to that point.

Brian Jones

One goal on nine shots is not bad, but that should be your first period, not your whole game.

Brendan Shanahan

Scoring a goal is special. Scoring a hat trick is special. I don't think you ever get tired of it. You know, obviously, once you get the second one, you start a kind of run for the puck and the net.

Brian Michaels

Safety is my No. 1 goal and I have a 15-point safety plan for our city.

Steve Shephard

On vaulting, we need to improve our landings. We didn't stick any vaults. Everyone of them took a step.

Global Initiative

an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Dan Nault

The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Chris Hope

It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.

Ansari Bukhari

It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.

Richard Falkenrath

This is going to improve the quality of our identification, which we use at every checkpoint in the country.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Charles Moore

In the same way that it's multiple sources, it's multiple solutions.

John Irving

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Dean Koontz

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Rick Comer

We were OK, but we still weren't on top of our game. I'm not sure why.

Dick LeBeau

We always know where he's going. But I'm not always sure how he's going to get there.

Ian Thomas

We're sure that they'll come to a satisfactory arrangement.

Kristy Curry

We're going to try to make sure we play our tempo.

Jonathan Schwartz

We're going to be making sure we're aligning the organization for growth.

Rachel Wacholder

Every time we're out there, I think we can win this match. They think they're going to win every time, too. ... I think now, I don't know if anyone's sure they're going to win.

Paul Bettany

There's no such thing as "for sure". That's the only sure thing I do know.

Terry Labonte

We've been talking about it and they could probably find a way to make it more confusing, but I'm not sure how.