Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Eric Brown

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Gabriella Goddard

The stillness envelopes me leaving no where to hide.It shows that which I know I must see, but fear deep inside.For my life is exactly what Ive created it to be,And face this challenge is what I must do, in order to be free.

Neal Lane

I see this as the greatest challenge we have as a nation,

Andy Cole

I've been through a lot in my career, it was a big challenge to come here and try to win over the fans,

Sufjan Stevens

I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.

Dennis Mullen

This is still a good challenge for us.

Carl Crawford

We're gonna have to respond to the challenge a little bit. (Ownership) is setting up the pins for us, and we have to knock them down. They're setting it up for the players, and we have to get it done.

Hisao Sato

Oil demand in the U.S., China and India is expected to rise further. Supplies, especially of sweet crude oil, will increase only slightly compared with the growth in demand.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

Companies that rely on the Chinese market may suffer if China continues raising rates.

Zeng Jun

Despite the economic slowdown around the world, China is still doing relatively well. However, when winter comes, domestic demand in China will slow down and there will be negative movements in the equities market...

Yan Xuetong

Development' shows China itself wants to become prosperous, but 'rise' indicates China wants to narrow the gap with developed countries.

Liu Mingkang

the story I delivered to the public in China and outside of China is a story of 'never again.'

Rebecca MacKinnon

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

David Albright

Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, ... China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention.

Michel Lu

Russia has close relations with China, so it's not surprising that it criticized Taiwan. However, Russia's reaction also revealed that it was unaware that China opposed the council and guidelines when they were first formulated, and also that Taiwan's decision was made in order to reinforce democracy and respect the right of the people to determine their own future.

Sharon Hom

This issue needs some really hard pushing. But it is in all our interests for China to develop a real society for trading information.

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Carey Pinkowski

The creation of this series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure, and growth for the sport of marathon running on a national and international scale.

Ken Paulson

USA TODAY is pleased to recognize the achievements of some of the nation's finest teachers, ... Their collective work inspiring and educating the next generation is a testament to their remarkable creativity, passion and commitment.

Stanislav Grof

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Gerry Adams

My own view is that we should seek to go back into the talks at the earliest possible opportunity. But that is not a decision for me alone. We are a collective leadership. We will consult.

Carlos Queiroz

Manchester will not take part in speculation to promote individual or collective interests.

Jordan Foreman

That says it all. The way we play on the defensive end. If you want to go back to November, it was nonexistent compared to what we do now. We're such a much better team. We're more of a collective unit. We play for each other. We've grown and gotten to know each other throughout the year.

Richard Browne

I would like to see this resolved so we're all under the same umbrella. No matter what, we'll continue to work together, but I still think we need to have some collective voice.

Marc Fleury

We are throwing our collective hats in the ring - no pun intended - to be the super company for independent open source development.

Jorma Ollila

The way the third quarter shaped up really is really proof that the growth we had in the first half of this year is continuing well into the second half,

Clay Matthews III

You obviously want to start the season out with a big game and to follow it up by continuing to get better.

Adam Ereli

We have a shared interest in continuing this cooperation.

John Bruno

We hope to make Start even better next year, continuing with a two-day run,

Chris Beard

We've had a pretty successful year following the launch of Firefox 1.0 and we're continuing to see very strong demand,

Carol Campbell

Continuing to expand parking is not an urban solution. It would just increase the congestion.

David Mills

Continuing the operations and having someone there to prevent vandalism top my worries.

Mark Frost

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

Justin Dombrowski

This weather pattern has been continuing for weeks, and there's no real relief in sight.

Derek Bok

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Jim Lee

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

Money Magazine

The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that they've made over the decades that we allege that they engaged in these illegal, anticompetitive activities,

Michael Rubin

To have a result like this after two decades is extraordinary.

Paul Stamets

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.

Frank Tipler

By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

Arlen Specter

When you have a decision which has been in effect for decades and people have come to rely upon it,

Stephen Lewis

When people are dying by the thousands every day, unnecessarily, when we've had this horrendous pandemic unfold for two decades while the world stands by and watches - you'll do anything in your power to move the process.

Yoji Takeda

Economies in the region are growing at a good rate.

Kenneth Fisher

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.

Thomas Shannon

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

Mark Milner

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

Bill Dudley

This is a pretty good report, I thought, in terms of the economy getting better.

Mark Vitner

This is another affirmation that we've gotten over the shock of the hurricanes and the economy is back on track to where it was before.

Scott Irwin

This is not just about Home Depot. This area's economy could use a shot in the arm.

Jamie Sandison

Profit forecasts for Europe are still far too high.

Eric Kraus

Russia does not want to have her oil and gas exports threatened by some of the transit countries, in particular Poland, ... This will increase the volume of Russian gas exports to Europe and will to some extent increase the security of those exports.

Benjamin Disraeli

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.

Charles Darwin

The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

Barbara Amiel

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Arjuna Mahendran

Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States.

Broderick Crawford

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Jeffrey Kagan

This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.

William Sullivan

That type of growth is not sustainable, and we're headed to a more moderate pace this year.

Mary Freeman

That's just huge growth for us in one year.

Jay Bryson

That sliced off about a half a percentage point in growth.

Sherry Cooper

The modest downtrend in order growth is pointing to some moderation in the months ahead,

Matt Kelmon

You're not going to see hyper growth until October.

Bob Turner

You're looking at a very modest premium to its growth rate,

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Evelyn Waugh

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Nikki Sixx

I don't think any of us realized how much work and how intense of a show it would be until we got into preproduction here in Los Angeles,

Sam Altman

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Edward Kennedy

The only surprise is that the administration is surprised by the intense reaction of the American people.

Rick Riordan

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.

Jerry Rucker

We have to make shots all the way around. And we have to stay intense the whole time.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Joe Biden

Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.