Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bickers

We have seen a gradual recovery in our commercial airplane business and we have been adding employees where necessary.

Rob Phillips

Opening an eastern Canadian facility, with a dedicated customer service team, and adding key sales personnel in Canada certainly supports our business in this important market. Phillips is focused on improving communication and meeting on-time delivery requirements for all our Canadian customers.

Mike Whitehead

People are either adding on goodies or taking the step up to a bigger boat,

John Carpenter

Our initial agreement in 2003 leveraged our respective strengths, combining Caterpillar's distribution and component expertise with Blount's strong product position. The alliance will only improve by adding the strength of the Caterpillar brand.

Bob Dinneen

Our industry is adding capacity at a phenomenal rate and will be able to adequately supply ethanol to the markets that need it.

Hugh Thomas

Over the next few years lower cost regions of the world are clearly going to offer certain efficiencies in developing code and that is just a fact of life that we have to deal with. Right now we have a smart bunch of people here who are focused and know what they are doing in a relativity niche area. I believe there is strong role for a company like ours; creating leading edge technology and adding value to the larger community.

Jim Taylor

Our success both on and off the pitch, particularly last season, has put us in an excellent position to grow our business. Adding both Sunderland of England and the L.A. Galaxy of MLS to our schedule speaks volumes about the growth of the Portland Timbers. It's shaping up to be a most exciting season.

E. O. Wilson

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Jane Johnson

Our goal here is to have a dialogue. We're not adding any new rules or making state standards more difficult to attain. We want to create a level playing field and safe food services.

Mark Eaton

We feel like we're in a pretty good spot right now, but we still want to work our way up. There's still almost a third of the season left to play and there's a lot of teams lumped together so we know that we can't afford any long stretch of losses or we could be on the outside looking in.

Carol Owens

Obviously, we can't afford to get down at this time. We have to look forward to the postseason and decide exactly what we're going to do on Saturday.

Steve Rhodes

Just because somebody will approve you, that doesn't mean you can afford it.

Ben Gordon

It is crazy. That's why every game is so important to us. You can't afford to be dropping games because we're not playing hard or we didn't come with the necessary intensity.

Debbie Williams

I think most of us don't have much leisure time anyway. So you'll see people trying to squeeze in leisure when they can -- even people who can't afford it have a cell phone, so they can get things done on the run.

Greg Valliere

He can afford to tilt at windmills, because he's Warren Buffett. But I doubt he can really influence the Republican leadership.

Caroline Levy

I don't think Daft or anyone would want to stick their heads out there now with the regulatory environment being what it is. This may have hurt him, but I don't think the board can afford not to rally behind him at this point.

Paul Gregg

I can confirm to you that we've had no interest expressed by Manchester United. We hope that they can't afford Wayne Rooney and effectively that Wayne will stay with Everton.

Glenn Thiel

We just have to keep winning. We can't afford any more losses, that's for sure.

Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Bruce Wilkinson

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Bruce Wilkinson

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.

Curtis Jackson

Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need.

Gary Frank

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

Malcolm X

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

Burning Spear

I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.

Seth Greenberg

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Robbie Loomis

I don't think you can ever set a time frame on something like that. It's just something you deal with every day of your life.

Richard Engel

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.

Robert McVey

I don't use a four-wheeler because I don't like the noise, so I look at most of my ground on horseback. It's kind of a getaway from work to saddle up my horse and not have to deal with people.

Mike Callahan

I expect it's going to fluctuate, not go up a great deal more.

Gerry Whitman

I don't think it's a deal where people are doing highway robbery to make overtime, ... It's a situation where we have a need for police services.

Tim McKee

I don't think it's a deal killer if we don't get it. It just makes it that much more difficult to structure a deal.

Jim Lowell

I don't think it's a big deal at all, unless you're invested in high yield,

Christopher Clarke

I don't think it means anything to the kids that they can deal with one way or the other.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

David Ferrer

It was a tough game. I started off well but he was getting better and better. I decided to put pressure on his serve which forced him to make more mistakes. That won me the game.

Tiffany Malatesta

It was a relay choice. We all decided on that together. Last week was hard on us. Next week will be hard on us. We just wanted to come to CALs and have some fun. This shows our hard work pays off. It's a great feeling.

Joe Nedney

It was a straight crosswind, a little in my face. I've never seen anything like it. Mother Nature had a tough night and decided to take it out on us and the Bears.

Steve Johnson

It was important to get a lead. Ridley has been a second-half team, but we kept working at it. Last week was a tough loss, but we decided to let it go and get the job done. The defense did a good job.

Randy Lerner

It's a year-to-year thing. And this year we decided no increase was appropriate.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Mike Stevenson

We had so many guys that graduated last year and we have a few seniors on the team now. We only have one guy that is a true senior, so we will be relying on the younger guys.

Bill Murray

We had quite a few old ones that didn't match the other departments nearby and we had three different models, which was a training problem, so we wanted to standardize the area,

Anna Payne

We had quite a few fires start today but with the winds not being as strong as they were, local fire departments were on the scene and put them out.

Werner Christen

We went into Reed and got the job done a few years ago. But we have a very different team now.

Ed Muniz

What's a few hours of overtime worth to send the world the message that Mardi Gras is wonderful and that New Orleans is open again?

Keith Taylor

What it's going to take is making more shots and a few more plays.

Chris Mestl

We got a few turnovers off of our press early. It's important for us to get some points off our defense.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

Graham Nelson

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

Bob Cannon

It should have gone to a reject bin.

Kevin Nash

When you're in that upper echelon in wrestling, any movie you take is gonna be a pay cut. If you're gone for three months and they pay you 150 grand, you're getting killed.

Jacob Riis

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Kierston Wareing

I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’

P. Chidambaram

Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

Ozzy Osbourne

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

Kristin Hannah

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Saint Augustine

Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

Zhuangzi

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

Voltaire

Men argue. Nature acts.

William Butler Yeats

on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

Wynn Bullock

I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center of the universe, and, if they are to sustain themselves, it is vitally important for them to be awakened to how closely they are linked with the rest of nature.

Edward Wilson

I am an optimist by nature. But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary.

Joseph Addison

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

Pamela Jones

Some people don't care. It's all about values. In my neighborhood, they would throw you out if you let your yard get all trashy.

Bryn Terfel

Some people disapprove of crossover, but who cares?

Dinsha Patel

Some people only talk, while some only work. Sardar Patel was one such leader, who always worked without talking.

Norman Stone

Some people may see it as trading insults,

Tim Johnson

Some people may raise an eyebrow, but this is not unprecedented,

Steve Orlando

Some people may have thought so, but there wasn't that guarantee.

Caitlyn Jenner

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

Jim Rash

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Leonardo da Vinci

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Oscar Wilde

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Paul Prudhomme

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

Paul Fussell

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

Paul Fussell

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

Paul Fussell

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Paul Fussell

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Paris Hilton

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.