Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

I am for the first time optimistic that we will pass, after a long time, financial services legislation. In 19 years, we are the closest we have ever been to actually achieving a bill.

Eric Greene

He is achieving what I consider to be his key objective in this testimony, which was to keep the market expecting higher rates.

Andrew Grove

Our biggest competition in achieving our ambitions, ... is a television set.

Paul Kennedy

Our association with CDS helps us to deliver an integrated reference data platform that reduces implementation time and complexity, while delivering accurate, timely reference data on the full range of Canadian debt and equity securities across an enterprise. This is the foundation to achieving an effective enterprise data management strategy.

Steve Malcolm

Recognizing there is a certain risk in achieving our plan, however, some of the agencies may adopt a 'wait and see' attitude before giving full recognition to all that we intend to accomplish,

Kerry Bailey

Organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they are achieving compliance. However, implementing a series of end-point technology solutions to meet each compliance mandate individually is not only difficult to manage, it's a drain on internal resources. Risk Commander is designed to alleviate the burden of managing disparate compliance controls, making compliance reporting easier and more cost-efficient so organizations can focus on what really matters -- their business.

Randy Copeland

Our ongoing efforts with Intel on the dual core processors have allowed us to provide users with a superior gaming experience. Reaching out to the gaming community by making the best PCs on the market has always been one of our primary goals. Our partnership with Intel enables us to make significant progress in achieving that goal.

O. Henry

If you love stressing the importance of achieving good grades in school, your children are going to love that. I believe he would say that to you today.

Margot Lester

If you read these books and follow these steps, you are going to improve your chances of achieving your goal,

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Charlie Williams

I was a librarian years ago, and I really liked reading the fun books (to kids) because the kids would always run and check those books out later. It did get them excited about reading, and I'm happy to see that.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Elizabeth Clark

You don't have to go buy your book.

Brooks Robinson

Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?

Dean Lombardi

Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book.

Niza Uslan

The books, representing writers from Egypt, Brazil, Europe, Canada and the United States, will explore what it means to belong, a theme that transcends many cultures and experiences.

Charles Harris

That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.

Dan Curtis

It's a matter of what are our priorities as a nation. Obviously, our priorities are guns and not books.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Alan Trammel

Just to even say there's a possibility, wow. But I'd have to say chances are we're going to have to make an adjustment.

Dean Wilson

Just stick to my game plan -- try to hit as many solid shots as I can and give myself as many chances as I can. That's kind of my game plan every week.

Ned Yost

He wanted to go back out. We didn't want to take any chances with him.

Gary Sheffield

When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I'm going to win. And I'll do it by any means necessary. If you're not willing to go that route, don't come my way.

Jim Wilkinson

Having seen what happened with Katrina last year and how much devastation that caused, we have a similar situation here in having widespread type of damage. This town meeting is to really help the public better understand their chances of seeing an earthquake occur and what could happen if it did occur.

Bryan Robson

It is a good away point for us with a clean sheet. We had the better of the half chances but you have to score a goal at home to take the points and we haven't done that.

Paul Tagliabue

I think the chances are increasing. The priority now has to be to institutionalize having such games, or the Pro Bowl, played outside the U.S. in the future.

James Buchan

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Jim Knight

It could have been even higher. We had some come in on that Friday (March 31) that we didn't process until the following Monday.

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Mark Donahoe

There are signs out there that the market is discounting this (economic improvement) six-to-nine months out.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

James Leal

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Kevin Johnson

I think it shows in our free-throw shooting. We were 12 out of 26 from the free-throw line. It took us too long to get into our offensive sets. We will improve on that by next season.

Kevin Williams

I think their new offense is pretty good. It's an improvement, but it will take some time to get running.