Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Martin Jacques

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Jack Messman

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Frank Vargo

I am hopeful. I think the stars are aligned on this. The Chinese have stuck their little toe in the water, and it didn't freeze off. I think the time is right for them to take the next step.

Tim Teykl

He is a good athlete. He is the bell cow of their defense. They structure their defense around him. He makes the calls and he runs the alleys well. He keeps everybody aligned so that they do not get out of position. He is a dangerous football player.

Daren Beaudo

Our participation in the state lease sale is aligned with our current interest in progressing Liberty along.

Larry Scott

Part of my surprise is that British culture is much more aligned with American and Australian culture, and this is a cultural and social issue, not a financial issue. Part of my surprise is that Wimbledon is the last one standing.

David Morgan

Our managing partners have regular quarterly meetings with all partners to make sure we're staying aligned with the goals of the organization.

Ron Slaymaker

In wireless, we're aligned well with the players taking share. That's certainly benefiting us.

Patrick White

Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

Guus Hiddink

He's a strong, determined character and an exponent of how I see Australian football.

Tony Roche

I think it's exciting times in Australian tennis right now,

James Hogan

It is a big rally in terms of the Australian market.

Kevin Rudd

When Howard ... sends our diplomats into Washington to try and hush this whole thing up in the middle of our Australian federal election campaign, it's plain as day that they knew what the whole problem was.

Wayne Clark

He will go down as one of the greats of Western Australian cricket not only for his efforts with the gloves and the bat but also for his leadership and team spirit.

Robert Allenby

Greg is Australian golf. He doesn't owe the tour anything.

Mark Hensby

Greg has never gone out of his way to help Australian golfers ... we all looked up to him, ... He isn't the easiest person to talk to.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Geri Halliwell

I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

Joseph Fiennes

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Sarah Sutton

I'd like to write a novel more than anything. I'm reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles at the moment, which is depressing me no end!

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Thomas Hahn

He represented kind of the lowest residue of cultural knowledge. The implication is that every English speaker by the 1380s would have known Robin Hood. ... That's a pretty extraordinary idea.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

David Bodde

In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.

Nancy Gibbs

What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.

Shirin Ebadi

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Tabare Vazquez

The left has not been impermeable to the neo-liberal cultural revolution, and has incorporated some of its elements, like the need for fiscal balance, open trade and competitiveness.

Tim Callahan

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms.

Lennart Johansson

I think it's a good idea. They have the same culture, understand each other and travelling is easy between countries. So why not?

Stephen Rodrick

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Chris Byrne

Historically, toys have always reflected our culture at any particular point in time, ... Today we live in a high-tech world, where technology is being used by kids even at a very young age. Toymakers are responding to that trend.

Al Horford

I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us.

Bruce Hyde

Lake Champlain is the most under-marketed gem of a resource. First and foremost I want to use this as an opportunity to promote the history, culture and recreation of Lake Champlain.

Bill Daly

We take this seriously. The pro gambling culture is something we educate our players about extensively.

Sandra Oh

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Peter Thiel

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Mark Augustine

We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Dick Cheney

He doesn't have a financial interest in the company,

Ruth Handler

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Al Becker

In the past when we've gone through periods where we're eliminating jobs, we've tried to do it so it'll have as minimal an impact as possible. In this instance, the financial situation is such we're just not able to do that.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Douglas Gill

The financial adviser's job is to marry up the proper money manager's strategy with your unique individual needs as an individual investor and your tolerance for risk.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Gregg Troy

I think it's important for people who didn't race well last week to do better this week.

Albert Young

I think it's ideal, I like it. You can never have enough backs. Especially after last year.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Evo Morales

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Kobe Bryant

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Jeff Candage

I'd be surprised that he would do something like that.

Salman Rushdie

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Steffi Graf

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

John Newcombe

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia. I just want to be like her. But if she loses, then I'm like, 'Oh, man, now I have to do it.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia,

Ivan Lendl

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.