Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Christopher Bond

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

Craig Marks

It was very L.A., Sunset Strip hair metal. It was a very callow record company attempt to fit her in with what they thought was the signature selling sound of the moment.

Nabil Aburdeneh

It was a business meeting and not a meeting for negotiations -- an attempt to break the ice and tension after Camp David.

Harry Samit

It would have triggered an immediate attempt to gather every piece of information we could about the plan, the targets.

Mark Kimmitt

It would not surprise us if there may be an attempt or two by perhaps some rogue groups that may not want to live up to this commitment, ... They may attempt to break this cease-fire. They will find that the coalition forces retain the right, the inherent right, to self-defense, and if they are fired at, they will respond.

Liz McColgan

The World Championships - with eight days between the 10,000m and marathon - offers a great opportunity to attempt the double,

Gilbert Newton Lewis

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

Walt Sanchez

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

Ayad Allawi

We have now entered the final phase of attempts to solve Falluja without a major military confrontation,

James Foley

Given the state of insecurity in this country, the attempts to create chaos, we had to do our best to protect the people from the forces of insecurity and criminality,

George Tenet

Because we viewed the reporting on such acquisition attempts to be inconclusive, we expressed reservations about its inclusion, but our colleagues said they were confident in their reports and left it in their document,

Steve Loucks

Because there was trouble in getting the first card to go through, the credit card company showed multiple attempts for authorization. However, just one charge went through for $29.95.

Michael Vick

I don't know if I can, ... Maybe not, man. My passing attempts are not where they need to be. I need to throw the ball 30 to 40 times a game for me to have those numbers, but our run game's so good that I won't say it's hurting me, but I won't complain, because it's a lot easier and it takes a lot of pressure off me, too.

Billy Donovan

I didn't think our guards did a very good job of blocking out. There were a couple of key situations in the game where our guards didn't even attempts to block out.

Rep Curry

I think there will be attempts to change it.

Rick Page

This isn't just about getting bids from companies that are ready to supply right now. If we like someone's product, even if they only have two employees, we'll work with them and show them how they can gear up to supply us.

John Loyd

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

Larry Bush

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

Chris Johns

To me, these bids are classic top of the market stuff. The Irish property market can't defy the laws of gravity forever. I'm trying to persuade my wife to sell our house now before prices fall.

Dan Chin

The bids then come to us in an e-mail, and we update (the page) every day.

J. Horton

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

Kevin McKenzie

We're responding to RFPs (calls for job bids for security systems) now.

Larry Young

People say they're going to go get cash and don't come back.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Matthew Kelmon

Now Microsoft has no excuses. The cash is going to be put to work.

Jack Nelson

It was about 6 p.m. when we entered the homes. We confiscated crack cocaine, marijuana, about $4,000 cash and we seized two vehicles.

Rory Robertson

The sharp rise in mortgage rates that is now under way threatens to limit the refinancing boom, limiting the cash that will be dropped into U.S. consumers' hands during the critical holiday-shopping season.

Marc Ganis

They are a cash machine. They print money, ... While there is no revenue pressure, they'll try to keep certain things pristine.

Jim Leljedal

This is not a place that has cash on hand. It's not a bank. These are just people working in an office environment.

Garth Whyte

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register - that can be done fairly quickly.

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.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Pascal Lamy

It is the Europeans and the Americans that must budge,

Warren Christopher

At heart, ... this is a European problem.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Alan Garner

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

Bruce Lee

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Robert Metcalfe

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Scott Adams

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Ray Mabus

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Doug Parker

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Craig Ferguson

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

Bob Dole

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Aristotle

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

Aldous Huxley

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Dylan McDermott

We shared the same vision.

Christopher Reeve

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

Dan Brown

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.