Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Smith

We know that you're adopting a baby girl from India.

Ty Gable

We can't afford to be complacent. If the industry doesn't embrace new technology, then we will be replaced. But, SCC is a technology that we are adopting enthusiastically.

Paul Bloom

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Carmen Lee

Most market analysts are holding on to their economic or corporate projections while adopting a wait-and-see attitude to assess if oil prices will remain at current high levels.

Debra Wilson

When the boy's mother found out they were in a documentary, she lost it. She was fine with them adopting him and raising him, but not with them being in a documentary.

Bobby Cox

I think John sort of adopting him really made his year. Had a lot of faith in him.

Pierre Pettigrew

I won't say they're all intolerant, ... Some of them are adopting our approach to cultural communities.

Robyn

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Joel Fuhrman

We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

Vladimir Potanin

Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.

Suanne Sines

The article was how to deal with a difficult school board member, and they defined that as someone who felt they were the voice of the people and consistently challenged board decisions.

Jerry Seinfeld

The article said that since the Upper West Side lost Charivari (an expensive clothing retailer) and the China Club (a nightspot), it's equivalent to 'a mall in Iowa,'

John Kelly

The article also claimed that Mr Edmonds was using a romantic relationship with Ms Simmons for PR reasons in order to counter his image as a downcast loser to help his efforts to re-launch himself as a television presenter.

Craig Venter

My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped.

Bruce Jackson

Most email I get is from readers suggesting links they think might be of interest or people submitting articles or ideas for articles.

Doug Ferrari

When the article comes out, I realize two things. One is, 'Hey I really was somebody.' And two, boy I've got a lot of friends that I thought I couldn't call anymore.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a huge problem and until we have that breach under control, we will continue to have a problem,

Timothy Muris

Why wait for a security breach to occur when you have the opportunity, not to mention a legal obligation, to prevent it in the first place.

Larry Ponemon

If a company has a breach and it wants to mitigate the potential costs and loss of customer trust they should start considering it as an important communication opportunity to prove to the customer that it cares about them,

Mike Lee

For us that is a breach of discipline,

Jamie Spence

Jose Maria Zamora is a respected official but he made a mistake. Had one of our chief referees been there, there might have been a different conclusion. It was a minor breach of the rules.

Scott Larsen

It costs a whole lot more to do that, but the results of not doing it for us, from a business perspective, were much higher than the cost of doing it initially. One breach or one failure could cost us all of our partners.

Chris Hoofnagle

There is huge pressure from industry to get Congress to preempt state data breach notice laws. It's quite a mess now.

Susanna Montezemolo

We think consumers should be notified in case of a breach and it shouldn't be left to the companies to decide.

Calvin Hill

I came to understand that women often keep it together by stepping into the breach to provide for and protect their families.

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

Xavier Becerra

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Cecelia Ahern

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Ashton Kutcher

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Bill Bradley

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Derek Thomas

That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.

Derek Thomas

That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.

Rod Marinelli

That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent.

Jurgen Klinsmann

That was the toughest decision of my career.

Michael Defensor

The president will sign a proclamation declaring a state of emergency.

Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Jeff Southard

We're not going to be able to get away with throwing $200 million or $300 million at this and declaring victory and moving on.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

Anthony Carmona

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

Ian Smith

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Graeme Smith

We contemplated declaring behind, but we also felt that they should have contemplated declaring a little earlier, given we were in the box-seat in terms of the series.

Ethan Harris

For the Fed to hike rates now would be the equivalent of a doctor prematurely declaring a patient at full health, discharging them from the hospital and then forcing them to run a mile.

Tom Gallagher

Often declaring losses on the prior year's return can lead to a larger deduction.

Stephen Morris

We really need to understand what's happened and what steps have been taken to rectify problems. In one of those incidents where an outage has occurred, there really needs to be a formal communications strategy put in place. We really need to be kept informed.

Joseph Towle

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,

James Gray

His work, though formal and precise, displays an exceptional understanding of the limits and uses of formalism and precision.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year.

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

John Paquette

We're acknowledging that a mistake was made on the play. We don't have a formal statement on it.

Nina Garcia

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Guy Moszkowski

Mergers and acquisitions have been very strong and produced a lot of ancillary financing.

Michael Lloyd

If they screw it up, there probably won't be another rail merger approved, at least in my career.

Frans Houten

There are various merger and acquisition options that we can and will explore.

Tony Fadell

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

Edward Menashy

It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.

Duncan King

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Angela Braly

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Dilip Shanghvi

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

Martin Reynolds

For Dell and IBM, the HP-Compaq merger is a win,

Van Coleman

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.

Bret Boone

I'm not like Ichiro. I don't polish my glove every day,

Jonathan Todd

We will look at the Polish response carefully.

George Black

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.

Alice Cooper

I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star,

John Fitzgibbons

This has taken a little polish off the apple, but it's still an apple.

Eric S. Raymond

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

William Brown

We have a lot of work to do. We're not satisfied with getting there.

Beth Clark

We can't just be satisfied with being down there this year. We want to make some noise.

Dom Capers

We aren't satisfied with where we are and we'll do whatever it takes to get to where we want to go.

Kareem Carter

I won't be satisfied until I get a ring.

Ken Green

I think our team isn't satisfied with a section championship. We don't want our season to end yet.

Willie Randolph

We'll get two out of three and be satisfied with that.

Julius Peppers

Personally, I think I'm doing well. I'm still working on things to get better. I'm not where I want to be. I'll never get where I want to be. But I'm satisfied with where I am so far.

Corey Brewer

We just have to keep winning now. At the end of the season, that's when we can tell you how satisfied we are.