Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schmidt

I wouldn't be shocked if someone was interested in acquiring them since there is real tangible value.

Bertrand Russell

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws

Simon Leung

In general, consolidation will probably happen. The question is when and how. We have been acquiring as well.

Fred Lipkin

The farm is a beautiful farm, and they had great plans. I think they were looking into acquiring another farm in the area, to expand even further, bring in brood mares and have a place for the brood mares to live.

Stephen Cohen

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.

Bill Dreher

The companies that are seeing strong gross margin improvements are getting it not from improving their merchandising mix, but from improved buying. Retailers like Wal-Mart and Target are lowering their cost of acquiring products. Sears on the other hand, continues to struggle with the turnaround of its department stores and problems with its credit card unit.

Lord Hailsham

The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absentmindedness.

Edmund Phelps

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

Jane Harman

The full facts of the case, including the role of Vice President Cheney, will come out at Libby's trial. But one thing is beyond dispute: Senior officials at the White House set out to discredit Ambassador Wilson, who contradicted the administration's claim that Iraq was acquiring nuclear material, ... They did this in an insidious way, by exposing the identity of his wife.

Phil Jackson

Kobe is missing out by not finding a way to become part of a system that involves giving to something larger than himself.

Tim Parmeter

I also thought we did a good job of finding him. He really got going, and we did a good job of recognizing that.

Caron Butler

I think it's just that my teammates are getting used to me and I'm getting used to them. Offensively, I'm just trying to stay in a good rhythm and a good flow. My teammates are doing a good job finding me in a rhythm, and I'm just doing what I know how to do.

Nancy Clark

It is a little like finding a needle in a haystack.

David McCandless

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

Alex Kapranos

We swap around instruments from time to time and try other variations. The real trick to making a good record is finding out the things that aren't good and getting rid of them.

William Wycherley

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Willem Dafoe

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Rufus Jones

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

David Eckstein

Knock on wood, I've been hanging in there.

John Patrick Shanley

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

Jackson Brundage

Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.

Lauren Dusin

I was just hoping the whole time it would go in. I kind of paused, but I hate when people hang their hand. But I just paused in the moment to see if it would go in. Crazy.

Jason Newsted

I already know what I'm looking for. It's not somebody who fronts the band, it's someone who can hang with me.

Patrick Carney

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

James Brolin

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

Bobby Frasor

He looked like he was going to hang 90 on us or something.

Roger Ebert

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.