Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Beddoe

As a founding member of our organization, Don's focus on our corporate culture has assisted WestJet in becoming a leader in our industry. ... His new role in this important aspect of our organization will set the stage for continued success.

Jeffrey Sachs

The broader issue of the real role of the U.S., the foreign assistance aspect of that, who's going to pay for the security of a global economy?

Jim Barnett

A veteran of portal and search wars, Rob has seen and touched all aspects of Yahoo's business from startup to hyper-growth.

David Farmer

Athletes that can generate the most watts of energy over time will win the race. In cycling at Tom's level, you can no longer just be a time trial specialist or a hill climber and expect to win a stage race like the Tour de France. You've got to be able to perform well in all aspects of the race.

Bill Guerin

People bet all the time in every aspect of life, and most of that is legal gambling. If you're trying to say our sport has a problem with it, I don't think it does.

Maureen O'Brien

(Degas) wasn't somebody who sought prizes. He wasn't interested in the public aspect of it.

John Challenger

Companies are looking at their staffing needs for the balance of 2001 and the numbers do not present a very positive picture. The most worrisome aspect of the job-cut numbers, in terms of serving as an economic barometer, is the fact that job cutting has been heaviest in both manufacturing and technology.

Alan Johnson

Coal has had a resurgence -- it will be a major aspect of the energy review.

Rijkman Groenink

An undesirable aspect of the current economic and market conditions is the level of provisioning. Provisioning has increased this quarter again.

Kevin McCarthy

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

David Schardt

People who go to the Web site for more information and read that thinking they're getting an objective, balanced view are going to be misled and fooled.

Mike Stock

Our defense got a little loose and we tightened things up the last couple days at practice. It was a nice defensive effort. It was a team effort. Nice balance on offense and good defense.

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Matt Birk

The more balance you can get, the more success you can have. And the more dangerous you can become.

Larry Lang

Competition for the delivery of mobile voice and data services is becoming increasingly fierce. By deploying Cisco's Content Billing solution, mobile operators can provide their customers with a myriad of payment options to strike the ideal balance for the billing of voice, messaging, multimedia, games, Web and other mobile services.

Earl Graves

Companies have budgets to balance as well, but unlike the federal government, we can go out of business.

Mary Osako

Companies that choose to enter the market in the future will face the same struggle to effectively balance what they believe which laws they must obey.

John Langdon

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Hiroichi Nishi

As a series of key economic events is scheduled this week in both Japan and the United States, it's hard to make major moves now.

Brian Orol

As a planner and a dad, I think it's wonderful. I'm doing this for both my boys.

Carmen Schoolcraft

As a whole, we didn't play up to our potential. We kept them out of the circle okay, except for the one goal, but on the rest of the field they pretty much dominated us in both halves. We just got outplayed today, and the limited opportunities we had, we didn't finish off.

Gerald Turner

As a graduate of both our undergraduate program and our school of law, she brings honor to SMU through this nomination and through her distinguished legal career,

Ron Fournier

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

David Morrissey

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

Bill Sadler

As a defensive measure all of the officers had drawn service weapons and aimed at the individual while they continued to repeatedly order the man to show both hands.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Josh Fox

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Joshua Shapiro

The big question now is how much companies will be able to raise prices for finished products to offset the hit to profits from higher unit labor costs.

Bill Maris

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Peter Cardillo

As long as the economy doesn't go into a recession, I think these (smaller) companies will continue to outperform large-cap stocks,

Ted Arrington

As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're going to have big contributors who have special interests controlling the outcome, whether it's video poker or the hog farmers or tobacco companies or the trial lawyers.

David Moskowitz

As potential patients, we would want these companies to make incremental improvements. Without it, we would end up only with first-in-class products that are not as good as they could be.

Mike Ross

As people move in, companies follow them. We're fortunate that we're in the right place at the right time,

Bradley Belt

As long as companies remain in operation with ongoing pension plans, they have a legal obligation to meet their funding requirements.

Patrick Brogan

As long as investors keep bidding up the price of the long distance companies on speculation that there might be an acquisition, it actually makes an acquisition harder to complete,

Chandler Riggs

I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorrect haircut. So I've been pretty lucky.

M. Wolfe

This is an opportunity for the district to be on the cutting edge.

Carole Strayhorn

A leader does not let nine sessions go by and now a tenth without a long term fix with cutting property tax and money going into educate for our teacher and for our classrooms.

Paul Ryan

Your state is rightly characterized as being on the cutting edge of this.

Brandon Sanderson

Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Carl Sandburg

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

C. S. Lewis

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Al Yankovic

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Newt Gingrich

People can walk out, but what I'm saying is a fact about a crime,

Catherine Deneuve

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Robert King

No rational trier of fact could find that the infringing Flying B logo enabled the defendants to generate more income ... than they would have otherwise done,

Gordon Kwan

Oil futures are looking forward to a much colder-than-expected winter. The fact that we have had so many refineries shut down means we are going into this winter on perhaps not enough heating oil.

Gordon Kwan

Oil futures are looking forward to a much colder-than-expected winter as forecast by many meteorologists. The fact that we have had so many refineries shut down means we are going into this winter on perhaps not enough heating oil.

Jamie Smith

We predict the heaviest rain on south-facing slopes.

John Campbell

People come as visitors and it's our job to send them away as pilgrims.

Michael Boyd

Northwest can survive if they have to go into bankruptcy, ... These labor unions have to take it upside the head. Their next job will be at the Wal-Mart.

Nate Whitford

Once the job is done, then it will be time to look back and reminisce. But right now, there is still a job to do.

Scott Ellis

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

William Kristol

The more one learns about him, ... one is surprised that he's in that job in the first place.

Dan Castellaneta

Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?

Rob Gray

Defensively we played better in the second half. We did a nice job of taking away what they had in the first half.

Clay Jordan

DeAndre did a nice job tonight. I knew we might lay it down some, so we had to make up for it with big plays. And we have the players to make those.

Yingxi Yu

Technical trends are looking very strong and people find it very risky to go short right now. I think that's why the rally has been continuing.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Chuck Koons

We're looking for what we could do that was ecologically sound.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Jeff Bryant

We really don't know our starters yet, or where everyone will play. We're looking for the right combinations.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Robin Wagner

At that particular time, I was looking for something in her that maybe she wasn't ready to give me.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Vandana Shiva

The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Baldwin Spencer

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Brit Marling

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

Brian Greene

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Ehud Olmert

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

John Taylor

A smart entrepreneur will go back and present it again.

Jane Jacobs

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Robin Oakley

were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Toshihiro Nikai

I don't think (China) will present a response tomorrow that will settle everything at the talks.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Gary Hanson

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.