Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

John Johnston

We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Alexandre Oliveira

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Dennis Johnson

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Elliott Wilson

It's just like wearing a big gold chain around your neck; it's a celebration of success and excess.

Martin Gleeson

It's just like a chain letter it's spreading like wild fire. It's completely bogus.

Howard Davidowitz

Also, most big retail chains placed their Christmas orders months ago and the Christmas inventory was already in the pipeline before (the) SARS (outbreak),

Dan Stein

They need to fix the system. Not only do they need to make the enforcement commitments work, they need to reduce immigration ... and eliminate the nepotistic family chain migration system that fuels the seeds of unmanageable immigration growth.

Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

David Horowitz

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Toshizo Tanaka

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Scott Magruder

We are proud of it. We put a lot of work into it. It did cost a little more, but it was worth it.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Paul Jacobson

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Jim Newberry

We've all seen the bickering, divisiveness and the lack of sense of vision for urban county government. That all needs to fundamentally change.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Chuck D.

We started off slow and then put it together to get our scoring going. It's good to be 3-0 at this time in district play.

Emma Brooks

We started off a little slow, but we picked it up. We just executed the way we practiced. It's good to start district off on a positive note.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Kevin Ford

What the school district is doing here . . . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

Ken Perkins

When you say a school and a district is going to be judged on this, and then it's not a valid test, that doesn't seem right.

Matt Jones

We were too loose. We just talked about ending the district schedule on a good note. We wanted to come in here and win at Bloomington. This has always been tough place for us to play.

Sam George

We've had some pretty strong evidence, come out from a very reliable witness, saying that Mr. Harris made these statements. Now we're going to have the opportunity to listen to what Mr. Harris has to say about them.

Willard Bowers

We provided some input to people on Lake Harris who wanted the bill.

Keith Ashdown

If Katherine Harris put out the list, then 534 other members can do it too.

Jeremy Mincey

I love it. It's a big personal challenge. It's on me, Marcus Thomas, Steve Harris and Joe Cohen. We're playing to out-physical them, to out-tough them.

Larry Harris

The magnitude of things that Larry Harris told me this summer, this season, all those things. I mean, he told me a lie to my face.

Steve Jarding

And I think this says more about Harris Miller than it does about Jim Webb on this issue.

David Johnson

Every time she missteps, she hurts herself more. Katherine Harris is letting herself become the issue.

Gabrielle Aplin

I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

Bob McDonnell

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Carl Hiaasen

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Glenn Martin

This just threw the healthcare industry for a loop. The state and local health departments had to regroup.

Juan Williams

While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

Craig Ferguson

Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

Donald Trump

Our healthcare is a horror show.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

O. Henry

Because of the long-term complications of cocaine use, we are looking at a healthcare time bomb,

Grier Stanley

We really need them to stay there because the numbers over there are ridiculous. It's important that they stay healthy to provide healthcare there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Katherine Brown

We are at a disadvantage to the larger high schools. At times, I feel like we really haven't been completely prepared for college.

Billy Eckstine

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

Rick Wade

About 25% of hospitals are in the red.

Todd Williams

They had minor injuries and were taken to Onslow Memorial Hospital as a precaution,

Dr. Ratard

It's not like the flu. The signs and symptoms are very severe. The problem is by the time you know, you're very sick and when you go to the hospital it may be too late.

Fred Phillips

There were times that I sat in the hospital where if I could have reached up and pulled the plug to end it, I would have.

Tao Levy

It might give hospitals some more power to push back on prices.

Andrew Spano

They're living at the hospital now. They may be there another year, ... This is a semblance of normalcy.

Jerry Jones

They're looking for any kind of volunteers you'd find in a typical hospital setting.

Frank Gore

It was really tough, that was first time she went to the hospital (with) me not being around her, ... me not knowing if she was all right or not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Celso Senise

There is no money in the market and the pressure to sell is very great.

Richard Smallwood

The person recovered after two weeks and was well when released from hospital. There was no spread of SARS from this patient to his contacts.

Bernard Levin

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have have not patients.

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Carl Jung

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Carl Jung

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

Billy Joe Saunders

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

Leo Bokeria

Unfortunately it is banal, utterly banal. A patient who was not treated has died. That is all there is to say.

David Walsh

It's not detrimental to the patients at the hospital.

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

Tom Johnson

We're still running some of the same plays we did back then.

Aaron Williams

It seems like every time he plays good, we win.

Larry Brown

It seems when we get into a fight, we start going too much as individuals. I didn't see us run many plays at all.

Scott Bloom

Alvin is a terrific back. He plays like he's 6-4 and 250 pounds. He will not quit.

Dick Bennett

They made the plays they had to make and we didn't.

John Tortorella

They made the big plays tonight and they won the game. We have to play better.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Jayne Houdyshell

It's extremely exciting to be part of a world premiere here at Arena.

Donald Davis

This is the premier short track race in Florida.

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Sylvester Croom

We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,

Steve Coogan

I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.

Ben Bradlee

She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.

Merle Bishop

If we get together, this could be the premier place to live in the county.

Lara Giddings

Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Derek Jacobi

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Denis Waitley

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Denis Waitley

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Carol Shields

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Alan Arkin

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Eddie Murphy

In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

Denis Waitley

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

Denis Waitley

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Denis Waitley

You become that to which you are most exposed.

Lance Armstrong

Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chris Burke

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Chip Conley

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Denis Waitley

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Lindsey Bruno

We have so many young players. My role is to keep them focused. That's not always easy. But we must be doing something right.

Bipasha Basu

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Lola Russell

We're very optimistic. We are monitoring it and keep up with supply issues.

Tim Ryan

We need to be able to at the very least supply our own military.

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Mitch Dorger

You can do the math. Supply and demand.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.

Edith Widder

Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.

Eddie Izzard

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Bill Nye

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernard Lagat

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

Bill Wilkinson

We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

Bo Jackson

Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Emil Brown

I value it. You never take it for granted.

Ron Garriques

Additionally, they want all of this at a value price.

Moliere

Things only have the value that we give them

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Mike Simpson

We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Justin Tuck

This camp, being my first, it's a vital one.

Greg Gorbatenko

This is vital for the Bells. DSL is very important for their long-term success,

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Nicole Krauss

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.