Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Long

Despite the likelihood of a conservative outlook, we believe better momentum in the company's growth areas could start to change the 'lack of growth' sentiment that has weighed on the stock.

Patrick Leahy

a flexible plan that includes pulling our troops back from the densely populated areas where they are suffering the worst casualties and to bring them home.

Chad Anderson

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

Gary Compton

There will be school tomorrow, but there are some areas we can?t do bus pickups. Some areas, if we had to drive to now, would be pretty shaky.

Jon Gruden

The schedule doesn't get any easier, ... Our job is to do everything we can to help him. His job is obviously to make plays and move this football team and help us score and win games, and eliminate turnovers, negative plays, sacks. Those are areas that must be cleaned up in a hurry. And he'll be the quarterback this week again. Hopefully he can do that.

Scott Black

These were all areas a little farther down the tracks where these families lived permanently later on.

Gina McCarthy

Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound,

Stanley Nabi

I see the shift occurring, with a grudge. Many areas of the market have become undervalued. They could show decent returns in the next 12 months.

Don DeBerry

Is it going to get better? Probably not. You may see some relief in local areas when we open new roads ? for a couple of years.

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

David Kerr

Buyers are looking for a deal. It does not necessarily mean there are any deals out there. A well-priced house still sells at a premium even in a transitional market.

Piers Handling

Which is why they're in the large venues like the Ryerson and the Elgin. The press screenings are actually happening after their world premiere so the key press, the key buyers are in those public screenings and that is important.

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

Richard Cripps

I think it's more a result of a fear of buyers being left behind.

Michael Marks

All of those buyers are looking to the West Coast. East Coast demand could make prices here go up, but you've got to understand that we've never experienced anything so devastating. It's hard to know how the market is going to react.

Walter Molony

It's not like all of the buyers fell off a cliff. There are still people in the market during this time, just fewer. Some people think it's a great time to buy or sell.

John Karevoll

There isn't a sense of urgency in the market. Buyers don't feel they need to stretch (finances) the way they felt before.

Richard Cripps

What this does is it keeps buyers away. It's a lack of buyers. And they would prefer some certainty.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

Hans Tietmeyer

A decision was reached that a further, coordinated rate reduction to 3 percent was necessary.

Andrew Evans

A decision to proceed with the restricted transfer notice will be made when the outcome of the market stand is known and the terms have been determined.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Ted Moskonas

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

E. Hurley

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

Bill Cowher

That's good judgment. If you're a rookie, I can sense if you use good judgment or not. So, I can tell how smart he is. It's a good evaluation process for me.

Roger Griffiths

She's a very good player, very talented. Right now, we're still in the evaluation process.

Randy Nelson

I don't know why we haven't done this. A lot of programs have games like this during their fall camps. We will use it as an evaluation tool.

Lisa Ling

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Randy Bly

It's a combination of factors hitting all at once.

Constable Deforest

We've had a lot of positive feedback from the parents.

Dave Riggins

We really would like to get some feedback from consumers.

Mark Stevenson

We took a lot of feedback from people who were in the event. ... They wanted the route to be more difficult.

Piero Romano

Not only do they get to learn music and rhythms, but they got to learn about culture. Even if they are younger, they were interested and wanted to learn. It was a lot of fun and the feedback from the parents was amazing. These are songs that wake up the whole soul.

Dr. Bastian

Overall our feedback has been good. We're hopeful.

Nadine Lemmon

We're at the point where we would like to get public input. We want people to point out if there are other trails we should be looking at, if they have any kind of feedback on the trails or an ideas for them.

Tom White

We get so much positive feedback from the regulars that come here, who just say,

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

David Johnson

School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself.

Dan Nault

The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Chris Hope

It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.

Ansari Bukhari

It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Kofi Annan

This is not unique within Mexico ... The important thing is not only to say we have made some progress but we should consolidate the progress we have made and move on to try to improve things even further.

Scott Murray

This going to be a tough weekend but the players are striving to improve all the time and a win is possible. It just shows that the players want to keep on growing.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

David Hahn

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

Chuck Norris

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Steven Wright

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

David Graves

That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Geoff Hoon

to do so would risk the operational security of the mission and potentially the safety of our forces.

Philippe Perrin

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

Don Kelly

We are going to be here until the mission is complete,

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Bill Carr

And we'll be sensitive to that as we look at the potential changes.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

James Armstrong

I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

Jerry Jones

It has the potential to have that kind of impact.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Craig Fugate

This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now.

Josh Duncan

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

Andrew Solomon

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Anna Chlumsky

I was an international studies major.

Thomas Browne

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

Thomas Jefferson

Health is value greater than studying.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

Stella Adler

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Sherilyn Fenn

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

Theodore Sturgeon

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Theodore Bikel

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.