Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Loynes

The MPC has acted early and aggressively. The soft landing scenario is still on track.

John Stevens

acted well within his rights when he opted to stand mute.

Lee Raymond

acted responsibly in pricing at our company-operated service stations, and we also encouraged our independent retailers and distributors to do the same.

Jeffrey Sachs

The Russian government not only acted corruptly, not only built up a new oligarchy of billionaires out of nothing, basically, but also gave away its most valuable financial assets-its ownership of the huge natural resource sector in Russia.

Mike Harris

It would be a concern if ... somebody received that information and then acted inappropriately. The OPP doesn't appear to have done that.

John Brogden

It was the week Bob Carr resigned. I had a few drinks and let off some steam, and in doing so acted foolishly.

Gary Barbato

It was very fortunate Tahoe was so low. It acted as a huge flood control reservoir.

David Schwartz

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the virtual reality we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived.

Hamilton Peterson

These were clearly people who were informed of the unthinkable, digested it, and acted upon it in no time at all.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Pau Gasol

The thing we wanted to do is jump on them quick. When a team is not having a good year, when you jump on them early and hit them first it's hard for them to get back up.

John Leslie

I usually end up having to owe a little money so why not pay at the last minute? It is hard to get things done early for me.

John Batina

I wanted to get everyone in the game, and we scored enough runs early where I felt comfortable doing that. It was nice to play kids who hadn't got a lot of playing time.

Stuart Hoffman

The NABE panel sees the economy roaring back in early 2006 following the fourth quarter's tepid 1.1 percent growth.

Tom Taylor

The music that is most special to you and stays special all through your life is the music that is special to you in junior high, high school and in your early 20's. That's when you have time to spend on popular culture.

I. Stone

Adrienne Squire is a great player. Ash played pretty complete, did a nice job early on her.

Jon Groth

After losing that first game the way they lost it, I really felt we lost an opportunity to really gain some momentum early in the (second) game.

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Ulysses Yannas

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

Christian Prudhomme

It's important to have a new freshness. To have scenarios that no one is anticipating and no one can control.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Brandi Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Frank Beamer

We had a streak . . . it's not all Florida. We had a lot of soft commitments going on. I thought they were just making a reservation with us and going to look at some other schools. I didn't think that was the way to do it.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Mark Philippoussis

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

Mariano Rivera

I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing.

Nolan Ryan

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Miles Teller

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.