Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Busiek

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

Pete Carroll

John David is ready, he's as ready as a guy could be in a backup situation. I feel very fortunate we've had him in the wings.

Rich Rodriguez

He's doing a nice job, he's our backup long snapper and he's competing to get better. We've been proud of the way he has worked. He's better now than he was last year and every week he keeps getting better and better.

Jamie Dixon

Replacing guys has always been a constant in this program. Guys have always stepped up. Carl went from a backup to a guy who plays 30 minutes a game. That's the transition guys are going to have to make. I expect that to happen this year as well.

Carol Hallett

If you already have departed the gate and you now get caught up in a two- to three-hour weather delay and you know you will go over your duty day, then you will have to turn around and go back, climb out of the cockpit, and the chances of getting a backup pilot will be very difficult. So in most cases, that flight will be canceled.

Gordon Haff

Intel has shown preliminary benchmarks that backup their general statements about performance. Based on what I have seen, there is not reason to think the products will not live up to their billing.

Dave Adams

I really thought we were going to go into halftime with a shot at winning, but we gave the ball away a couple of times and let their backup quarterback throw two long passes,

Rebecca Ferguson

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

H. Hunt

Initially I thought that everything was going to be connected directly off of the switches of the SAN fabric. But instead I ended up moving the Overland devices directly off the backup server to get it to work,

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Julius Peppers

People think they really know, but they really don't have a clue what they're talking about, ... I could really care less about who's complaining about me not having sacks.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Burt Neuborne

No single person will receive enough to genuinely change their life. This money is symbolic of the fact that while you were still alive, people cared enough to forge a legal resolution.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Geoff Kendrick

The risks are now skewed to the upside (on U.S. interest rates). 4.75 may be a done deal (in March) and depending on how the data goes, 5 percent may become a done deal as well.

Walter Moloney

There's no data on that. Personally, I don't think that it would negatively impact sales.

Paula Wagner

What can data tell us and teach us to reach all students? ... That is the most valuable part of the data.

Craig Mundie

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Amanda Hoffman

We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.

Steve Ballmer

I'm not an insider. I'm not on the board. I'm an outsider. That implies a certain kind of separation ... because the company can't, without an appropriate nondisclosure and trading rules, share confidential data with me that it would not share with any other shareholder. You could say that implies a certain kind of separation.

Ronald Fisher

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Chris Dancy

The whole idea is to get someone who has thought about flying, but hasn't taken that first step, to get out there to experience it. That way he can get a pretty good idea if he wants to become a pilot or not.

Trafalgar Square

As soon as the result is known, there will be an immediate announcement.

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Roger Clemens

I know my immediate plans are I'll go back to Florida.

Jo Koy

I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.

Kofi Annan

It is the plight of the Iraqi people which is now my most immediate concern.

Vedran Vukusic

This is probably the toughest loss we've had all year.

Van Chancellor

This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.

Brett Favre

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Augustus

He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.

Jane Fonda

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

Jared Diamond

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Dan Ariely

Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.

Brian Weiss

More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Fonda

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Scott Adams

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Solon

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

Taron Egerton

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.