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.

John Eade

Price will probably end up hooking up with two family members who are unhappy with the board's performance, and will most likely attempt to recommend new directors on the board.

David Fish

People get awfully nervous when they hear a member of Congress talk about regulating the Internet. This is an attempt to fix a hypothetical problem that doesn't exist.

Connie Kelliher

People feel if it happened in Wichita this time ... they could be next. They see it as an attempt to dismantle the work force, and they are not going to stand for it.

Sgt. Griffin

Officers attempted to keep him from going into the house. At that time a single shot was fired and he was shot in the head.

Leatrice Eiseman

After querying designers and compiling our statistical analysis, we know what direction people are leaning in this season. And with retailers more and more in tune to what their customers need, there is a deliberate attempt to get certain colors into stores.

John Thorn

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Jamie Shea

As a result NATO is taking certain precautionary measures.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Joel Robuchon

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Alfred Mutua

As a government, we could not stand and look at people starving. WFP was only covering a certain part of the population. We were forced to use our network to save the lives of our people. At the end of the day, people were saved.

Eleanor Catton

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Joan Lunden

As a journalist I reported on health stories and certainly knew what I needed to do to be more fit and lower my risk of heart disease, but I wasn't incorporating it into my life, ... The more I learned about eating healthy and staying fit, the better my life became.

Rasmus Lerdorf

As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.

Zhu Zhu

I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.

Gloria Vanderbilt

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Marty Turco

I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all.

Virgil Thomson

They look better than we do; they can wear all colors on stage. We're sort of oyster-colored.

Jean Thompson

The plates come in all shapes and colors mix and match.

Tom Carson

We kept the wall colors light so that the rooms would stay bright.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Stephen Brady

This is a pass-through. What we pay for it is what our customers pay for it.

Terry Golesworthy

The Web site is now the front door for most companies; online customers are looking for an interactive relationship, something new for many companies,

George Whalin

The upper end of the economy has done very well and the stock market is at a 3-1/2 year high. This bodes well for the high-end merchants. Discounters would have had a hard time because their customers were impacted by higher gas prices and uncertainty about jobs.

Robin Sorensen

That's just one of the ways the restaurant wants customers to feel important. Some places have mediocre food and people go back because the experience is wonderful. We think we have fantastic food and we have a great experience, too.

Kyle McSlarrow

You would not just be violating the First Amendment, but be hurting the very customers you're trying to help.

Julie Rochman

People run red lights because they think they can get away with it, and they don't want to sit and wait for the light. For the most part it's a deliberate act.

Peter T. King

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

Mark Ruffalo

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

John Dingell

This is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of the fact,

Cary Elwes

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Mike Baker

They'd like to be more deliberate on offense and they do a good job with that. If we can do what we do, we'll be all right.

Jordan Rohan

They are talking about a deliberate rollout, and that means late.

Don Esmond

For the first time in a long time, designers pushed the styling envelope.

Paula Vogel

I don't like the table work where I'm talking about myself, I'm talking about the play, what I meant. I love when actors and directors and designers say, 'What if we did it this way?' Or 'Did you ever think of doing this?' Or 'I see it in a different way. May I show you?'

Phillip Bloch

I think it's moving forward, I love to see designers mature and I think they did a great job. We know that they can do denim, so it was nice to see them do something else.

Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Cynthia Steffe

It's odd that a lot of designers were on the Slavic slant.

Charles Pollock

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Lazaro Hernandez

All the young designers now are doing something interesting.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Helen Johnston

The plans and the policies that are set out are generally in the right direction but where we have been less successful is being able to drive through the implementation.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Craig Dunn

I think establishing the new position and the new office is a step in the right direction.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Teddy Dyess

I really think he's just about back at square one. I don't think he's leaning one way or another right now.

Terry Mattingly

You could tell he was leaning toward Buddhism.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Steve Vai

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Larry Wall

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.