Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Goldstein

The conditions that make it a poor site for a casino by tenfold make it a poor site to serve alcohol.

Aimee Mann

The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from the dead-end world where she lives in the South, ... They run off together and wind up in a casino town, like Reno or Vegas, and their relationship falls apart.

Gary Jackson

The Gulf Coast I know and the people of the great state of Missisisppi are not dependent on casinos for whether they survive. They are dependent on what God put within them - that character I saw down there.

Nancy L. Johnson

the door to casino expansion in western Connecticut is closed.

Ron Porter

The coming of a casino will substantially change Pittsburgh, and I don't think that, as a city, we recognize just how much it may change.

Robert Clifford

This hearing was all about preventing this casino from going to the Village of Rosemont.

Wilford Brimley

The folks who own this hotel and casino are dear friends of mine. As far as I'm concerned, this is maybe the last old gamblin' joint in this town.

Pat James

That's really popular these days with the kids. Casino stuff.

William Schmitt

It will cannibalize, but the difference is you have a 50 percent tax rate and you have a slot parlor as opposed to a much lower tax rate in New Jersey and a full-blown casino resort. The level of amenities is going to be much less (in Pennsylvania).

Sam Bodman

I hope the CEOs of the energy companies use that (hearing) as an opportunity to make their case, tell the story of just what it is they are planning on reinvesting in this sector,

Douglas Conant

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

Michael J. Saylor

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Peter Freeman

We hope to make the point that CEOs need to be personally engaged in information security as a strategic issue.

Edmund Phelps

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

David Rosenberg

If CEOs are just frozen in fear, ... who's going to go on a spending spree.

John Davidson

But ultimately, rate cuts are not going to help the crisis of confidence. This is a process that is going to take a lot of time. We need to see CEOs signing off on the earnings. We need to see people getting prosecuted.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Keith Greene

There are so many other factors we have to address. Homophobia is something we have to address.

Quinn Pitcock

It comes down to really guessing the right play at the right time. The defense, the will and then raw talent. Those are really the true factors when it comes down to it.

David Sims

He had a paucity of risk factors for having an event,

Jim Rink

In Michigan, we only have one refinery. The other two factors influencing our prices are that there is a lot of speculation taking place on the commodities market and that there are a number of refineries that are having to shut down temporarily to switch their production to the summer-grade gasoline blends.

Richard Church

The consumer's been out in force for several months, ... all of these factors have contributed to very robust sales at retail.

Donald Harris

It's so different this year, and a lot of factors are contributing to it.

Justin Glover

The value of the home is just one of many factors in determining rates.

Kelly Clarkson

I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Jim Courier

He'll be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Mike Madden

He literally, probably stood there in shock for about four or five minutes.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Mike Helton

talked about a lot of options, including the possibility of having to shorten the race.

Rich Morone

It was lunchtime and we saw the workers there leaving, including Childress.

Richard Butler

No member of the council, including the United States, has purported to give me instructions. They all recognize that their job is policy, my job is operation.

Richard Shelby

Everywhere, including the United States, will be at risk.

Sharon Stone

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

Robbie Tobeck

I think we have a lot of pride, and I think we work well together. There's no magic here. It's never really talked about, and if it is talked about, it's only in passing.

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Bill Jackson

He was the magic that got people there in record-setting time. It is very much his accomplishment.

Richelle Mead

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

Richelle Mead

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

Ric Ocasek

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

Van Jones

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Terry Lanni

Many people will go to our parties, The Venetian's party, Wynn's parties and Caesars' party. Our goal, and we're not always successful, is to make sure those visits stay within the MGM Mirage family.

John Dahl

I think MGM was a little worried about some of the parallels. I thought it was a kind of completely different story.

Esther Williams

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Recover, reform and then rebuild ... year of reform.

Marc Holtzman

I want to rebuild this party, and I want to rebuild it long term.

Shahid Malik

This has been a tragic weekend for Burnley and we must now work to rebuild things.

Steve Capps

There's a lot (of infrastructure) that has to get rebuilt there. We would like to rebuild in Biloxi. We know the market. We like the market.

Thad Cochran

We're going to get you what you need to rebuild this town.

Pam Dashiell

We are getting to something real so we can rebuild the community, not just a plan, but a blueprint.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Mark Davies

If we're going to rebuild, ... let's rebuild smart.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Mark Howard

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

Will Ferrell

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

James Greenwood

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Jeffrey Passel

Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave.

Eve Ensler

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

NeNe Leakes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

Paul Register

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

Christopher Hitchens

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.