Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

John Clare

A free ISP does not create a business you can float. It is really e-commerce that can drive a business. We have to turn these customers into revenue.

James Costos

A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.

Mario Testino

A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

Michael Musto

A famously open gay singer-songwriter (told me) Luther was dying to have a boyfriend. It was an inside show business open secret.

Mike Winn

The one thing that is constant in the business is that things change. The minute you think you know what's going on, something will change.

Sarah Lacy

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Jim Rogers

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Curt Shaw

Dillon, Jared and Tom deserve a lot of credit.

Martha Coakley

Women always did all the work anyway, so we might as well get credit for it,

Bryant Gumbel

I never had a problem with Bryant. He's a perfectionist, and that's to his credit. When he did interviews, he had these big note pads, and watching him go over his questions was like watching James Levine conduct. I'm a better journalist because of him.

Lewis H. Lapham

Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

Royce Chadwick

All the credit goes to Tulsa. They played exceptionally well. The shot 55 percent and got better as the night went on and we shot 30 percent and got worse. It's a product of the times we're in (five games in nine days). You have to fight. We were giving it everything we had, but we weren't able to pull enough gas out of the tank.

Ned Riley

The market may be more conditioned to take surprises than we give it credit for.

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Patricia Ryan

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

Michael Cox

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Rosa DeLauro

Poor people are going to get the short end of the stick, despite all the public sympathy. That's a great irony.

Gabe McDonald

I was still pleased with our guys. Mount Pleasant comes in with an intensity our guys don't normally see. We played hard despite the score and we learned a lot tonight.

Maureen Shea

She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was still standing on her feet.

Jason McLaughlin

She's given me a different perspective on life. She gets through despite everything, so it makes me think I can, too.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product - This should give the industry a breather.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product -- This should give the industry a breather.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Elijah Wood

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Shane Carruth

It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

Steve Langdon

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Benoit Mandelbrot

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Jay Wright

The timing of this is incredible. I know it looks like we really planned this well.

Dan Brush

We talked to our members about it and they said, 'This sounds crazy,' but the more work we do, it looks like we can pull it off.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't really care about how I look.

Daniel Craig

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Nicolas Cage

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Miranda July

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

Marvin Minsky

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Michael Chabon

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Martha Plimpton

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

Ma Ying-jeou

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Lyle Lovett

I married her just because she looks like you.

Lorin Maazel

In this world, there's even room for quality.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Elbert Hubbard

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.