Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Leonard Teitelbaum

Despite its birth as a basic agricultural company, ADM has sent a message that its future lies in products surrounding energy, based on agricultural technology.

Mark Zimmerman

Depressed patients clearly have different perceptions than researchers running clinical trials about what it means to stop feeling depressed. Clinical researchers have identified a patient as being in remission from depression, based on certain behaviors or symptoms, but the patient may not feel any better. We may need to broaden our definition of remission from depression.

John Reid

Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local conditions, not some immutable timetable, ... This will mean a transition, a process, not a peremptory decision or a one-off event.

Martin Cohen

Any opinions I have are based on the same evidence that commissioners looked at. I haven't pre-judged anything. I don't have any preconceived notions. I have well-informed ideas.

George Hood

Any decision we make will have to be based on cost savings, ... I'd like to see a full proposal on how the county could save some money.

Rodney Young

Any decision that was made was not based on the fact that the content was religious in nature,

David Barry

An impeachment of the chief justice based on the evidence found will stand out as a historical aberration. It's been a frustrating day.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Nathan Myhrvold

The task of growing is finding these people. A lot of companies are (turning away) from the notion that basic research can be a good investment. Some of the best and brightest are being turned out by their companies,

Joseph Bruchac

The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Dom Capers

The thing I was most disappointed in was the basic fundamentals of our team. Our blocking and tackling were poor, and we committed too many penalties.

Paris Hilton

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.

Eric Hallman

I've always said this is a small town. I think deep down we all basically want the same kind of thing for the town. It's just seeing through minor differences.

Scott Turow

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.

Art Buchwald

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

James Wolcott

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Baltasar Gracian

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Daniel Handler

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Eric Anderson

As you say, ... the power lies with all the heterosexuals.

Marianne Williamson

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

John T. Flynn

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Guy Kawasaki

Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Barbara Ryan

There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be visible in terms of products for quite some time.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

Catherine Holland

I sent out 502 e-mails and got one response.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.