Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Dennis

We want to be the best and the only way of achieving this objective is by attracting the best people.

E. Hicks

Overall we think its a significant advance and contains the elements necessary for a stronger council but the key will be achieving the two-thirds vote for election of council members. Without the two-thirds vote, the risk is that the worst abusers will continue to be elected.

John Gabriel

Our goal all along has been to give Grant the best chance to get healthy. At this time, and in consultation with the medical experts, we are in agreement that the risk of him returning this season to game action could be detrimental in regard to achieving the overall goal.

Chris Stricker

Our first goal was to win district, and our second one was to do something that no other class in our school's history has done. You don't get many years to get the chance for something like this, but the girls did a great job at achieving their goal.

Khaled Meshaal

Our visit to Moscow is a very important step for achieving a breakthrough in our international position. This is a visit that has no conditions. We will listen to the position of Russian officials and we will clarify our own position.

Philip Hughes

We were able to improve our performance in the first quarter of 2006 by achieving productivity gains, as well as improvements in the areas of safety, reliability and customer service.

Richard Notebaert

We delivered on our performance goals for revenue, cash flow and continued margin improvement while achieving new highs in service measures and positioning us for profitability.

Babatunde Osotimehin

We are optimistic of achieving the target. We are already working with our partners and also reaching out to raise more resources to meet the target by 2006.

Isabel Sanford

If there's anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving - go for it. I was told many times to forget show business - I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

John Enos

The old township hall was much too small. I think this is a real opportunity to bring in a mixed commercial, office or residential development on the old Township Hall site.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

John Gray

Right now we meet three or four times a year, and only for hiring and firing. Now we will meet once a month, and the members have to bring financial reports and progress reports to every meeting. We immediately go to Senate if someone is not doing their job.

Thomas Brophy

Right now we bring people in and talk to them and say, 'Don't do it again,'

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Patricia Baker

The fact that drivers don't get paid if they don't race, consumers relate to that. Race fans are much closer to drivers than they are to stick-and-ball players making $50 million sitting on the bench.

Merlin Lahm

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

Jim Aumann

She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.

Jimmy Howard

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Pam Robinson

I have a very difficult time moving west of Metcalf when you have families driving past one, two or three elementary schools that are closer than 21.

Peter Capaldi

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

Marcus Gronholm

I didn't expect to win. It's a new car, it's a fantastic result. I thought I could win before the last stage, not earlier. Everything is possible. We had our problems this morning. I was expecting Sebastien will be closer but I knew it would be a good fight here, I was sure about that. Petter had so many troubles in this rally, he couldn't show his speed. We have to wait for Mexico to see what he can do.

Bobby Cox

I thought he was hitting closer to .300. He's had a lot of big hits.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Chris Henson

It's been very labor-intensive, and it's also a situation where there's been some very tight federal deadlines.

Patty Clary

It won't, because federal law protects us from variances.

Jacob Lew

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

Peter Takirambudde

People are being terrorized by federal police working hand-in-glove with local officials and militias.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Jim Hartman

We just could not stop Dennett. He played large tonight.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Anthony Marra

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

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Peter Mandelson

It sometimes seems to me they won't be satisfied until they have seen proposals implemented that would ... wipe out large sections of agriculture in Europe,

Gregory Kutz

They are really not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of mass disruption. They wouldn't necessarily have enough radiation to kill anyone, but they could require the shutdown of potentially large parts of the city.

Luis Diaz

There were so many of them and a large portion were already on the beach. We're just making sure no one drowns.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Darren Lightle

She was 17-of-19 from the line. She was 11-of-12 from the line in the second half.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Jano Cabrera

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.

Conor McGregor

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Kenny Rogers

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Magnus Carlsen

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.