Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hotard

They may have done some research. If it's an issue of being able to control a fewer number of passengers, they may have been astute enough to know that Tuesday and Wednesday are your lower load factor days.

Kurt Campbell

They are astute observers of the executive branch ... and they know that the president is weakened.

Mark Dyer

It's a competitive market and we're seeing more of an educated customer that has looked on the Internet and become astute as to what they want. If they're going to spend money, they want quality.

Juergen Hambrecht

We posted the best results in our history in 2005. We grew faster than the market in 2005 on the basis of our own efforts and astute acquisitions.

Karen Davis

Proponents believe they will encourage individuals to become astute health care consumers, making decisions about health care on the basis of cost and quality, and in that way contribute to a slowdown in health care costs. Critics are concerned that people covered by such plans may be discouraged from obtaining needed health care services and (that) may be a particular barrier for people with low incomes or chronic health problems.

Mark Davis

Of course, you have to read the game right, but the really astute punters could have made a lot of money.

Joan Claybrook

DeLay was very astute at pushing legislation that was advantageous to people who would give him money.

Mr Bush

The Senate has confirmed a man with an astute mind and kind heart,

George H. W. Bush

The Senate has confirmed a man with an astute mind and a kind heart,

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

John Talbot

Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.

Limas Sweed

We always believe. That's something coach Brown talks about a lot. You always come out and believe in each other. We told the defense, 'We get the ball back, we're going to make things happen, we're going to make plays and that's exactly what we did.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Linda Kilpatrick

The point guard is very solid. She handles the ball strong, runs the offense well and can hit the open shot.

Bob Ferguson

We've always been known as a option team. But we've been able to pass the ball the past couple of games and get ourselves out of some trouble. We hit some big third downs and some long passes and it was good for us.

M. Thompson

We started to go inside. We were in the bonus and double bonus early. We figured let's establish things in the post. We have two good posts and we got them the ball and let them go to work.

Ron Reed

We started to get loosened up there in the second half and that really made the game different. The kids shared the ball well, and they had fun. They were just a great group of kids.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Judith Clark

It's been talked about, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Noe Cerezo

It's just a matter of time. The kids are getting it together and it's one of those things that half of them don't have the experience. They can play, it's just sometimes you need the experience, too, and it's gotten better every time.

Jacob Cruz

It's just one of those things where it's just gotten worse and worse. It got to a point where I don't think I could probably play out there for nine innings.

Rob Davis

A lot of schools are interested in him because of his speed and strength. He could have gotten a lot more yards Friday, but we didn't want to show too much.

Jeff Hawkins

The young guys were really anxious. But I think they've gotten over their stage fright. They'll be calmer this time.

Mike Hatch

They never have been particularly interested in our input, and I don't know how we would have been able to give input had they asked, ... There's no way we should have gotten involved.

Shaw Wu

They had to do this to reset expectations -- things had gotten a little out of hand. I think that it was the prudent thing to do.

Arthur Vint

This has been great. We've gotten a lot of promotion out of it.

Adolf Hitler

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

Ricky Martin

I played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.

Errol Flynn

Luke Flynn will play his grandfather Errol in

Phil Garner

(I was) trying to get something on the board. Luke Scott's a low-ball hitter, and (Willis) is a low-ball pitcher. I like the matchup. It didn't work so well.

Mark Hamill

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

Aaron Allston

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

Mark Hamill

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Buck Henry

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Jerry Stiller

We are even better looking on the small screen

Glenn Ford

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

Charlotte Rampling

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

Ben Kingsley

The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end.

Kerry Collins

We got close, the screen that was tipped was a walk-in from my vantage point,

Andrew Preston

For the Mackenzie fund, we look at it over more than 15 different screening criteria.

Simon Reuben

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

William Shakespeare

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Cheri Huber

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.