Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Anika Noni Rose

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Shashi Tharoor

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

Chris Woodruff

The bull industry is becoming like the racehorse industry.

Bobbi Henson

A whole new world of applications are becoming mainstream, and people really benefit from a broadband application in conjunction with those applicants.

David Garis

Australia's economy is increasingly showing some soft edges and inflation is tame. The risks of another rate increase are becoming much less pressing.

Jill Lepore

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

Lou Gerstner

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.

Richard Grasso

A separate entity would remove the cop on the beat, ... is not viewed as a profit drag, but ? as an investment in our brand and in building public confidence.

Greg Stuart

As consumers continue to embrace the Internet as an integral part of their everyday lives, marketers continue to acknowledge that interactive is a crucial medium to engage their customers and create deeper brand experiences.

Paul Gatza

As a brand extension, Zima Gold failed miserably.

Leslie Moonves

As a leading content creator, we are committed to deepening our consumer's relationship with CBS brands and programming. This move underscores our strategy of offering best-in-class content on as many platforms as possible while seeking out new revenue streams.

Vaidyanath Purohith

The brand does make a difference, but if you look at the career growth in comparison to being in a top-end five-star hotel, the difference could be huge.

Bill Douglas

Augusta is the perfect market for us to deliver our decentralized brand of banking,

Randy Bennett

As media proliferates, people have a variety of media choices, and competition for traditional media is pretty intense. Newspapers are seeing a slow, gradual decline in their readership. The question is, can a free newspaper without much of a brand enter the market? I think there are a lot of challenges for that sort of business model going forward.

Sam Yagan

Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

Steve Tihanyi

People have a perception about our brands and our products. They're living in a world 20 years ago, when the products were very different. That's why we're building this different type of facility, so they can understand that.

Kurt Busch

It feels good to get off to a great start. But we're just two races in. I'd like to say that we're a championship contender with the way we ended last year and we'll just try to keep our momentum rolling forward.

Ron Bamberger

It's a bittersweet experience. It's great to have a Derby contender named after you -- it will definitely put you on a high -- but knowing I am standing in the shoes of my friend takes the edge off a bit.

Robert Castellini

We didn't get involved with the Reds to wallow in mediocrity. If that's all we have to offer, we shouldn't be hanging around. We're going to give it 110 percent to put a contender on the field.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

Shukla Bose

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Sung Sohn

The corporate tax cuts may not have an economic impact until months later.

Winson Fong

The economy is picking up and corporate profitability has recovered.

Barry Hyman

The fourth quarter is going to be volatile and trying, ... I don't think the market has fully discounted all the negatives in front of it, including the hurricanes' impact on the economy, higher energy prices on corporate profits, and higher inflation.

Marco Boerries

It's going to be a new level of quality: a corporate grade solution for consumers.

John M. Smith

It's going to be the sort of year in which one or two shocks might well happen. But I think corporate news flow will get better, but the question is going to be how much is already discounted. We're optimistic, but not euphoric.

Kevin Doucet

It's for charity, and we love it. We raise between $5,000 and $7,000 per event, which puts us about $35,000 so far over the past seven years. Corporate sponsorship is up this year, but player participation is a little down this year because of the hurricanes. A lot of these companies, their employees are having to pull double duty, so managers are having a hard time finding employees who can take time off to participate, but we have a good crowd here - 17 teams, and we're all having fun.

Nell Minow

The line between corporate governance and strategy is a fine one. Increasingly, strategy is a legitimate question for shareholders.

Carolayne Holley

At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then they're just sitting around for an hour without any customers while the brides and their guests watch the show.

Larry Ellison

A year from now, we'll have over 4,000 customers live on the e-business suite.

John Richardson

As long as it's done in a sympathetic nature it's for the best. It will provide customers for everyone and keep the Old Town alive.

David Singer

As innovative security technologies transform the way the world lives, works and plays, Homeland Security Corporation is positioned as the vital link of this still-expanding industry, matching customer needs with the products, services and solutions when and where they need them most. When our customers need to build, maintain, run and/or use security products, they need to know Homeland Security Corporation will deliver for them.

Ron Johnson

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

Chris Clevers

Product quality has always been our main focus. We rarely lose a customer because our products don't do what we say they will do. We've really developed a loyal following of customers in the U.S. and around the world.

David Parker

Profits outside of Florida were good. Inside they were pressured. We were expecting the utility to do a little better, but that's what happens when you have three-quarters of your customers out for a week or two.

Tom Barrett

.Pro domain names with free Web hosting make a perfect gift for the holidays. Every professional serious about marketing themselves online should have a .pro Internet address. There is no better way on the Internet of communicating to your customers that you are a pro.

Larry Pratt

Our 'Texas Family Home Policy' will offer our customers a tailored policy to fit their specific insurance needs. Just like no two families are alike, no two families have the exact same insurance needs.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Wang Meng

I'm sure they had a strategy to work together. But I don't know. It must be said the Korean girls are excellent in the sport and they are working together.

John Clifford

The IHC test is still an excellent test. These are not simple tests, either.

Anthony Grant

You've got to pay a livable wage, ... We've got some excellent staff that are turning things around.

Colin Quinn

We battled well and it was an excellent win.

Greg Brown

It's called getting out-coached. They had an excellent game plan and his kids were ready to play. We were too hurried and couldn't get a rhythm.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Tupac Shakur

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Zach Wamp

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Wilhelm Ostwald

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

Walter Savage Landor

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Ridley Scott

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Matthew Bright

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

Viola Spolin

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.

Diane Nelson

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Rick Tocchet

In your career, it's nice to be known that you stood up for your teammates but it's also nice that when your team needed a goal, you were put out in those situations.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Sarah Fielding

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

William Wallace

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

Winston Churchill

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Vince Vaughn

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the breath of progress.

John Bunyan

A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful.

John Bunyan

The name of the slough was Despond. -'Pilgrim's Progress

Heinz Fischer

The name of Simon Wiesenthal ... will live on,

Heinz Fischer

The name of Simon Wiesenthal . . . will live on.

Alando Tucker

The name of a team doesn't scare me. The name of a player doesn't scare me. It's an opportunity for us to win a ballgame.

Salman Rushdie

A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Dan Parker

Terre Haute has put their name out there,

Cheryl Hamann

Sometimes people have little more than a name as a starting point. But, you start with what you know and work your way back.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Robert Keats

I don't know where their number comes from.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Russell Hoban

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

Russell Brand

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.