Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

Joseph Alsop

I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...

Bob Edwards

I can do whatever I want to. I'm completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously -- as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me how to pronounce syllables of words.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

John Van Hamersveld

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

Omar Bongo

In other words, the fundamental values (freedom, justice, equality of rights) began to be respected by France and the United States in the 1950s-1960s, after decolonization and assuring civil equality between Blacks and Whites.

Ann Jackson

His life and accomplishments continue to inspire Rensselaer students, Rensselaer faculty, Rensselaer staff and the entire Rensselaer family. And we are very honored to have the recognition for him in proximity to the campus where he began is illustrious career.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Group Inc

Goldman Sachs has called Lower Manhattan its home for 136 years and we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to this neighborhood and to the city of New York,

Joe Suboticki

Going undefeated in the City League, that doesn't happen very often. I've got to tip my hat to my kids. That's an outstanding feat.

Donna Johnson

Goodbye, city life; Dream Acres, we are here!

Mark Rodgers

He's been polite but persistent. He's enjoyed the Mets, the city and the people, but he can do the math. He knows right now there's no room for him.

George Stigler

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

Steven Blum

What you're watching here is field training to a standard. The scenario is ... in the District of Columbia and we've cobbled together a task force from five different states to come in.

Kal Penn

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.

Ray Arvidson

The rocks in the Columbia Hills are nothing like the basalt on the plains. Water was involved in practically every one that we've seen so far.

Ray Arvidson

The rocks in the Columbia Hills are nothing like the basalt on the plains, ... Water was involved in practically every one that we've seen so far.

Andrew Cuomo

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than we have here in New York, ... caboose on the economic train.

Aretha Franklin

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

J. C. Watts

At that point, my mom joined the Columbia record club, and we got our first record, 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis.

Bill Russell

What I think Columbia does is they just play real hard. I think that's what really helps their style.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Drew Matus

I think what this does is ratify the Fed's current stance --- moving at a measured pace seems to be the prudent course.

Mahmoud Zahar

I think that during the current tour, we will be able to raise the needed funds.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Joel Naroff

There is an ever-growing number of homes on the market, and while the overhang is not great at the current selling pace, it could become a problem if we trend back toward more sustainable levels,

Douglas Hattaway

I don't know what planet he's been on for the past eight years, but this administration helped lay the foundation for our current prosperity.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Joe McLaughlin

Individually we have excellent talent, but need to stay healthy because injuries will hurt us as a team.

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Simo Valakari

I haven't played for a while in the league so it was nice to get back out on the field, but it was even nicer to get a result. ... Being 3-0 up, we knew that they were going to throw everything that they had and put us under pressure, but I thought that we handled it well and it was excellent just to get 3-0 up. We're playing well and scoring goals, but our game comes down to how we defend, so it was a little sad to give a goal away, but that's the game and we'll take the result.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Eduardo Paes

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

Andy Milonakis

I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want,

Tom Williams

because it was the right thing to do for our 1.5 million employees. We feel that they need to be treated with respect and feel valued--no exceptions.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Richard M. Nixon

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation. Once again, prudence dictates a more gradual increase in the wage rate, so that the economy can more easily absorb the impact.

Rian Johnson

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Richard Ford

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Richard Gere

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Roald Amundsen

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

Robert Einhorn

In retrospect, we impeded a lot more of their progress than we knew.

Hossein Entezami

The continuation of talks shows there is progress.

Khalil Gibran

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

Kevin A. Ford

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Young Jeezy

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Travis Barker

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Richelle Mead

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

John Pont

I really think that is a real strength of the team.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Anthony Froude

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Henry Rollins

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

Henry Adams

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive.

Rob Lowe

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

Russ Diamond

There's tons more to come. This is just the first wave.