Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Risley

I would say there is a great risk as we go into the next two weeks of a very brief campaign period but certainly the U.N. and the international peacekeepers and police force here are very much on alert and will be quite quick frankly to put down any attempts to disrupt the election. I think it is everybody's concern now that there are only two candidates that some aspects of the voters in Liberia will become more polarized and thus, in some ways, the danger of some sort of election related violence or disruption is much greater now than it was prior to the 11th of October.

Roger Williams

He didn't have a very good night, ... He had a disturbed night and had to be put back on the ventilator, but he is still very alert although sedated on the ventilator.

Scott Graham

Greenspan has to be on high alert and ready to move quicker and probably more aggressively than people have given him credit for.

R. Ingram

He?s got to grow up. He?s got to be alert and aware on the bases. He?s got to create positive plays and not let teams off the hook. I?m speechless on that play.

Rick Lehner

It could be available in the event of an emergency, but until all the training and procedures are completed, it's not ready for 24/7 alert status.

Pablo Picasso

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Ricardo Maduro

We are facing serious danger from the rain, ... We are staying on alert in nearly every part of the nation.

Alan Greenspan

To date, interest-sensitive spending has remained robust and the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will have to stay alert for signs that real interest rates have not yet risen enough to bring the growth of demand into line with that of potential supply, even should the acceleration in productivity continue,

Ken Dulaney

What you really want your phone to do is to alert you to things. So you tell the back-end systems what you're interested in, and then these back-end systems will watch for you and tell you when things get kind of out of kilter.

Jim Daly

Her times were very fast and I liked what I saw. In recruiting you're looking for someone who has a good burst of speed.

Jon Nadler

Gold burst decisively through the $560 mark...even as many participants are out for the U.S. holiday.

John Ellinger

He's been solid since we picked him up. I think someone stepped on his toe or something so that's why he came out of the game. We put a little pad under it, so I think that's why he wasn't able to turn and push but he was fine coming back for the ball. But after that he didn't have that burst that he had in the first half.

Bob Baffert

I'd like to run in the Travers. I was hoping he would step up today. He's got a great style now. He's got a great burst of speed. It was tough to get him here. But I think we've got a good thing lined up.

Jim Bollman

He has a burst to him. We need to do a better job of getting him into open space.

Tom Donahoe

He may have gotten to 85%, maybe 90%, by the end of the year, ... but we didn't see the quickness and burst we see this year.

Mike Schroeder

Physically, we're bursting at the seams. We're ready to make the next absolute, giant leap.

Paul Sagawa

In the period until the merger is consummated and maybe the quarter afterwards, there tends to be a lull in capital spending, followed by a burst after they do their integration planning, to more than make up for it.

Joe Osha

In posting the weakest Q4 revenue result and Q1 outlook since the bursting of the bubble, Intel has made it clear how much competitive ground the company has lost to AMD. The extent of the losses has exceeded our expectations.

Sebastian Thrun

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Michael Graves

I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

Peter Mayhew

Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

Perry Crosswhite

I think we've done very well. In fact, some countries would say we've done too well.

D. James

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

O. Singh

I am foreseeing good friendship between the two countries in the near future,

Hu Jintao

help the military forces of our two countries to better enhance their mutual understanding and friendship.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Vera Farmiga

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

David Cook

Jail overcrowding -- that's what's driving everybody's car.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Bob Wilson

I think it makes people think and realize the hazards of driving and the need to be safe.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Detective Legros

He said he was just driving around and needed the money.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Spike Milligan

His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum.

John Silvia

I think it's just oil and optimism about the New Year. I think oil is the driving factor due to the warmer weather, but people are now looking for better than expected (fourth-quarter) earnings, better than expected retail sales number. There's a host of good numbers out there.

Bob Hudgins

I was driving down the street (in Harlingen) and saw a palm tree line with what stucco houses and red roofs....that could be Los Angeles. These are the kind of things we're looking at. What is the variety here and how can we show something that people can grab on to.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Alan Skrainka

I think the performance gap between the new-economy and old-economy stocks is like a rubber band; it seems to be snapping the other way. The new economy sounds very exciting, but you're still going to need food, medicine and electricity to survive.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

Christoph Bianchet

I think the economy will be surprisingly strong in the first half. The real question is: What comes after that?

William Egan

I would say that the figures for 2003 are an improvement over the previous years, the first steps in an emerging growth cycle.

Karen Anderson

There are so many emerging technologies out there that we should take a look at and we will. It's not something we can rush into. It's going to be a five- or 10-year process.

Ricardo Khan

The fewer role models you have, the harder it will be for you to imagine you could do it, too. My hope is that Genesis supports not just those emerging writers but that it's making a statement that writing is important, that the imagination being channeled to something on the page is possible.

Colin Morton

The emerging markets are where Europe was five to seven years ago.

Michael Campbell

This partnership...truly allows theatre owners to use the Internet and other emerging technologies to reach out to our customers.

Phil Kendall

There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed phenomenal levels of subscriber growth. In particular, Russia, India and Indonesia saw major growth in new users in 2005, up 40-50 percent over 2004 levels.

Kenton Keith

It is unlikely, we think, that they will be able to reorganize and pose a threat to what we hope will be an emerging political situation.

Robert Lynch

There's been a lot of volatility in emerging markets but in the majors, very little.

Henry Samueli

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Gary Caille

The idea of using an off-the-shelf vehicle is that it already has that stuff in it. The automotive industry has spent a lot of money evaluating these chassis for safety and we can make use of that.

Jay DeMarcus

All you can do is just better yourself and everything you do. And maybe they'll take notice. Obviously (the industry is) at this point.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

David Brown

It's not as many jobs as Mack, but it's a stable company, and it diversifies the industry in the county. A lot of our industry is automotive-related.

Satya Nadella

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Vinton Cerf

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

Walter Isaacson

Innovation requires articulation.

Narendra Modi

Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.

Eric Ries

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

Gary Hufbauer

It's not an innovation problem; it's more a matter of production.

Neal Hunter

It's going to be very competitive. That's why you have to rely on your innovation and your speed.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.

Mike Rowe

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Karl Marx

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

S. Walker

They said I have a separated joint in my left shoulder,

Tom Nutten

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces. But I kept playing on it.

Robert Rosenberg

There are obstacles here that are artificial. There?s really no reason why it should be taking this long,

Heber J. Grant

No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

Karl Marx

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

Si Robertson

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

Lou Holtz

You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

James Macdonald

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Robbie Coltraine

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Rob Sheffield

Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.

Richard Petty

You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

Richard Posner

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

Richard Paul Evans

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

Richard P. Feynman

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?