Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Meyer

As a team we're looking for teammates, not superstars. Someone who can play the game and can be a good friend. That's as important as playing the game well. In recent years we've been fortunate to attract quite a few new members and this year we're concerned with having to turn people away.

Julie Nelson

The buzz on Reality so far is good. We know both consumers and advertisers love reality TV, and thought this channel would be a natural to attract clients.

Tracey Mills

Banks are doing back flips to attract customers away from their competitors and to hang on to their existing customers. Freebies are seen as an effective way to get a prospective customer's attention.

Joe Mattioli

Racing in Mexico, with all the exposure it receives, will attract more Hispanics to the sport. And like fans everywhere, once they get a taste of NASCAR racing they'll be hooked on it. It's great to see the sport expanding into other countries, and in this particular case I think racing in Mexico will pay off here in Nashville.

Donna Evans

Proper zoning is essential to community development. When you're looking to attract certain types of businesses, you definitely want to zone it in a way that will make it attractive.

Gary Ozzello

Primarily what you're trying to do when you build a compensation package is not that different in some ways from the recruiting process - you want to come up with as attractive an offer as possible to be as competitive as possible.

Jamshyd Godrej

Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.

Jim Marks

People retreat to the sidelines, licking their wounds. The whole process is not as attractive anymore.

Takahide Kiuchi

People's sentiment is changing. They don't mind spending more for attractive goods.

John Langdon

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Hiroichi Nishi

As a series of key economic events is scheduled this week in both Japan and the United States, it's hard to make major moves now.

Brian Orol

As a planner and a dad, I think it's wonderful. I'm doing this for both my boys.

Carmen Schoolcraft

As a whole, we didn't play up to our potential. We kept them out of the circle okay, except for the one goal, but on the rest of the field they pretty much dominated us in both halves. We just got outplayed today, and the limited opportunities we had, we didn't finish off.

Gerald Turner

As a graduate of both our undergraduate program and our school of law, she brings honor to SMU through this nomination and through her distinguished legal career,

Ron Fournier

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

David Morrissey

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

Bill Sadler

As a defensive measure all of the officers had drawn service weapons and aimed at the individual while they continued to repeatedly order the man to show both hands.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Mike Drake

The buzz word in parks is visibility. Raising the elevation to grade level is something we have wanted to do for years.

Andrew Sherman

The buzz I'm hearing around town is he's a relatively unknown choice, but an interesting one. It will be interesting to see how the nomination hearing goes.

Paul Dergarabedian

Sometimes there are movies that are very popular but not popular at all with critics. There are certain movies that are of a genre that rarely get good reviews, so the studios figure why get them out there and get that negative buzz going.

Paul Dergarabedian

You see this type of buzz for movies like 'Star Wars,' 'Lord of the Rings,' typical big blockbusters. But for a film that's a very high concept horror film with a solid cast, it's unusual.

Pete Sampras

You expect people to kind of be walking around. And there's a certain buzz in the air.

S. Walker

There's just not a buzz about the Seahawks.

Seal

There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.

Eugene Kennedy

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

Jeffrey Simpson

I am very excited. I had a big old smile on my face and was very impressed. I think there is a real big buzz about the program now. We are catching people's eye.

Kevin McCarthy

The one positive was that the company was successful in reducing channel inventories to 5.5 weeks, down from 11 weeks two months ago. Low end-product demand remains the problem.

Will Davis

The old channel numbers just don't mean what they did 10, 20 or 50 years ago. Welcome to the digital world.

Jiao Yang

Some scrap metal dealers have become a channel for fencing stolen material.

Madeleine Stowe

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

Mickey Rourke

Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don't always have to take things so serious, you know.

Kit Spring

Rarely does Clear Channel make an acquisition that isn't accretive to earnings, and Sirius wouldn't be accretive, and Clear Channel also has a seat on XM Satellite's board, which it would probably have to give up if it wanted a stake in Sirius,

Ed Peterson

The river looks totally different. It is so much wider, and the levees have disappeared. The pilots are feeling their way to find the deepest part of the channel because it is not marked. It is pretty stressful, but they're doing it. They want to keep this river open.

Laurie McCabe

This is huge because Dell is a great channel to provide hosted services.

David Schatsky

This ... is (a) staggering statistic for a shopping channel that will have been around for little more than 15 years. This presents an enormous opportunity for retailers that embrace a well-integrated multi-channel operational strategy.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Dannielle Romano

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Dick Durbin

it would have put millions of American consumers and families at risk of losing coverage for necessary health care.

Travis Reindl

Things are very good for consumers right now because there are so many (financing) options.

Russ Rader

This is a really good resource for consumers who want to find out what's been recalled by a manufacturer but don't know where to look.

Adrienne Warren

This is definitely good news for consumers ... a 32-year-low is a very impressive figure.

Joe Kraus

This is an issue where consumers are at risk of ceding control on how they listen to music to the powerful entertainment industry,

Scott Helbing

This is an incredible value that will help even more consumers experience and enjoy the digital lifestyle.

Paul Gregg

As far as Wayne Rooney's concerned, I am pleased to inform you that he reported for training at the start of the season on Monday,

Randy Julander

As far as water supply is concerned, we're looking at a great year.

Frank Culbertson

As far as waiting or going, you can't wait on the ground for something else to happen. It looks like the situation is stable.

Tim Allen

As far as trucking in snow, we don't have the money.

Kevin Atticks

As far as tourists, (Worcester County) can't be beat.

Jim Dyke

As far as this week is concerned, you've seen this process move forward and that's important, and you have learned more about her judicial philosophy and her qualifications and her experiences, all important considerations for senators.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Shantel Rivard

As far as the type of goals that went in, she wasn't looking sharp.

Tony Stewart

As far as the to-do list is concerned, it's the No. 1 thing. The last two years, I've led enough laps to win the whole race outright.

Jane Fonda

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

Winston Churchill

(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work

Nancy Young

People plan their vacation around it. Seniors come from all over the state. They love to see the students and talk to them.

Carl Jackson

People still love (the picture) today. People know me from that.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Mike Tirico

... On TV, you can get a sense of this is some place you would love to go play.

Apolo Ohno

Oh, I can't wait. It's so beautiful, the people, the culture, and we all love the food. It's going to be spectacular.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

Tom Maurer

Oh, he's going to love that. I never wanted him to go out on the perimeter.

Jerome Hauer

Nothing indicates that this was anything other than a natural outbreak.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

Bill Cunningham

He's talked about it for months, I think this is the natural progression whether or not he runs for mayor.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Brian Tracy

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.