Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seesel

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Bhagavad Gita

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

Julien Pain

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

Kevin Knight

During the fourth quarter our revenue growth was driven by a combination of fleet expansion and improved revenue per mile. We benefited from opening new service centers, increasing service in existing centers, and a full quarter of revenue from Edwards Bros. , which we acquired in August 2005.

Brent Scowcroft

compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein had acquired nuclear-weapons capability.

Andreas Herren

Companies who have acquired these rights of course deserve to be protected against this so-called 'ambush marketing' by free-riders.

Roger Wang

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

Laura Martin

These content companies go in and out of consolidation phases. There are periods when they go independent, and periods where they're acquired by bigger conglomerates. This is one of those periods.

Jed Connelly

August was very good for us, but we lost some momentum in the last few days due to Hurricane Katrina.

Bob Rewey

August was another sensational month for Ford and the industry.

Peter Brodie

August through October, you historically have weakness. Even with a number of supportive factors in place right now, it's likely that these seasonal factors will kick in.

James Kennedy

August is rerun season, so we've seen this episode before...and it has the same ending: nothing is imminent.

Philip Gonsalves

August is one of our hottest months. This is not really a heat wave. It's just typical for summer.

Doug MacIntyre

Normally we'd expect to see a decline of about 400,000 barrels a day from August to September just for seasonal reasons, as people stop taking vacations.

Andrew McLaughlin

The nascent recovery in domestic demand is neither strong enough to warrant an immediate reversal of the August cut, nor weak enough to prompt back-to-back rate cuts.

Joe Ciccarelli

Despite what may be believed to the contrary, the shootings that occurred in August 2003 are unsolved.

Audley Harrison

After I knock out Robert Wiggins on August 18, let's do this for the heavyweight division and more importantly, the fans. I'm certainly willing to put it all on the line.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Phil Keoghan

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Evelyn Lauder

I've always been a person who is driven.

Ella Eyre

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Scott Owens

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

Sergio Garcia

The market is being driven by the rally in New York, but overall we have the typically thin volume for the month of December.

Stephen Byers

our existing security measures had not taken into account.

Michael Grice

We're looking for ways to reach out to new students, existing students and faculty, and a large part of this will be with marketing,

Laura Behrens

Plenty of them are putting their stuff out there in the hopes of being found by the existing system.

John B. Hood

For students, especially international students, we are focusing on not only their existing performances, but their potential for future development as well,

Bob Nardelli

It's all about getting more out of our existing assets. It's all about store productivity.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Jim Butler

Virtually every new development and even existing project owners are looking at a residential component.

John Stewart

The expansion of airports is guaranteed to increase emissions.

Ian Forrester

However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Anita Frazier

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

Marianne Wiggins

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Christopher Hitchens

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

William Cowper

How fleet is a glance of the mind!

Willie Walsh

We're in the fortunate position that Rod Eddington left the fleet in good shape. It's unlikely we will do anything in the short-term.

Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

S. Walker

We have a fleet of earthmoving and related equipment.

Paul Dick

We're trying to think through all the ramifications of what it would take to deploy a fleet of these.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Toni Sacconaghi

This is the fourth straight year where your priority is to make money. It's the third where your priority is to grow . You haven't fulfilled those priorities.

Samuel Gruber

This is the fourth home of America's oldest Jewish congregation,

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Beadsie Woo

The state does seem to have a problem with people wanting to work full time, but then taking part-time employment.

Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Jay Stewart

The system can't work when you don't have full disclosure.

Jarvis Cocker

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.

Claron McFadden

I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.

Sara Banaszak

The offshore pipelines are one of the last things we tend to get full assessments on because it requires some underwater assessment.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Jennilee Huddleston

After playing so hard last weekend, we were physically and emotionally drained. The day off will help us get back to full strength.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Jesper Koll

The moment American growth slows down below, say, 2 percent, trade pressures are not just something that we talk about but are something that are really going to hit policy makers.

Harold S. Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Alan Greenspan

a process that has undoubtedly improved national productivity growth and standards of living.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Tim Brown

Currituck is much improved from when we saw a little over a month ago.

Kristi Clemens

We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11.

Gary Green

With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team.

Lance Manning

We improved as the scrimmage went on. In the later part, we played a lot better.

James Perry

We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

David Mann

It's been increasing significantly over the last year and a half.

Alan Brown

The use of application processors in 3G mobile handsets is increasing the semiconductor value per handset and semiconductor revenue for suppliers of application processors.

Ted Shaw

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he.

David Rakoff

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

Richard Read

You are really playing a positioning strategy here, ... You don't want to throw 'Chicago' out there while 'Lord of the Rings' is still going strong, or opening on the same weekend with blockbusters like 'Gangs of New York.'

Scott Podsednik

Every opening day is special, but this one is really special.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Mike Conway

We had fog, visibility about a quarter of a mile. It's foggy, but it's not pea soup.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Ron Kaufman

Preparation clears a pathway for success.

Ron Kaufman

A scattered effort is a poor effort.

Tony Hsieh

Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

Steve Jobs

The customer is the final inspector.