Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

Zach Johnson

If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

Warren Farrell

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

Wentworth Miller

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

Greg Aiello

The policy is that if the average temperature is below 50 degrees, then the city needs a dome. That being said, any league city is welcome to make a presentation.

Christian Maher

The outlook remains unchanged, but the business has to pedal faster on subscriber growth to offset falling average revenue per user in order to meet expectations.

Max Mayfield

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

Gary Garnant

That was a good site for that wind farm on the hills behind Kennewick. They get average wind speeds of 14 to 16 miles per hour consistently so they have a good power factor for those wind turbines.

Charli Thorne

We played pretty average and we only lost by one. So by no means have we lost a lot of confidence in ourselves.

Mr Davis

Using broadband would quicken up the service of internet providers with less frustrating drop outs,

Philip Hammond

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.

Greg Collins

Wireless LAN equipment in the SOHO market is still used primarily to share a broadband connection. We estimate over one-third of broadband subscribers had WLAN functionality at the end of 2005, up from approximately 25 percent at the end of 2004. Broadband services, including data, voice, and video, will increasingly rely on Wireless LANs to distribute content and services to multiple devices in the home.

Kyle McSlarrow

It is critical for all providers of video services to be treated on a level playing field. The government should not pick winners and losers in the broadband industry by establishing a different set of rules that favor one provider over another.

Allan Fels

It is disturbing that Telstra still has not offered the particular ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) broadband technology that was requested by wholesale customers more than a year ago.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

We have a very strong broadband infrastructure in Japan compared to other countries. There are various online contents on offer and these require a hard-disk.

Julie Ask

The problem is wired broadband will always be cheaper and faster than wireless.

Chris Day

The quality and volume of information you can send through a network depends on performance, rate, reach and cost factors. By enhancing RF hardware, you can lower the capital cost to deliver broadband services. Our products improve network performance by cutting the noise in half compared to current competitive solutions. This allows carriers to reach more customers at less cost.

Mary Meeker

We are in or are entering TWO cycles instead of one broadband Internet and mobile.

Virginia Postrel

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.

Chris Carter

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

Paul Gallant

The arguments in favor of it have a clear political appeal. So cable is taking a la carte very seriously.

Gina Talamona

The antitrust division is looking at the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the international undersea cable industry.

Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Dennis Rodman

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

Rick Jones

Most of the big cable companies provide voice over Internet services that are equivalent to regular wire line phone service. The catch is they don't let customers be nomadic, you can't use a phone number from outside your regular service area.

Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's collaboration with Cable & Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable & Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Randy Falco

We continue to expand our audience, reaching them everywhere they consume media on cable and online.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

Virginia Postrel

Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.

Ninon Lenclos

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

Carl Rogers

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

Bethenny Frankel

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Charles R. Swindoll

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

Randy Martin

The 6 percent option is the wiser choice. (Asking for) 10 percent is like going double or nothing ? 6 percent seems like it would be a lot easier to sell. It seems to be the reasonable choice to me.

Richard Notebaert

The American people have called for choice (in long-distance services), ... Ameritech is stepping forward to make it happen.

Jim Tressel

That wouldn't have been my first choice. But I can't have it back.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

Carl Rogers

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

Bethenny Frankel

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Charles R. Swindoll

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

Rocco Buttiglione

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Eben Moglen

We'll release the first discussion draft very late this year or very early next year. We'll provide an extensive rationale as to why we made the choices we made and, in a limited way, why we didn't include some other suggestions.

Deborah Reyher

You are going to eliminate some choices you have now if you don't focus on land use.

B. R. Hayden

Michigan was one of my choices going to school. It's going to be a big rival for me and the whole team.

Meggie Ford

I think kids are savvy consumers. I think we need to give them the right information so they can make more informed choices in life.

Richard Branson

We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

Jake Brace

We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.

Barbara Williams

We have the luxury of just watching a little bit. Every company must make a decision about where they want to be on the curve. There's always the risk that if you lead, you bleed.

Robert Hartwig

Typically, they want to know how many people are residents in your household. That creates a different liability situation, and you need to inform your insurance company about that.

Brent Bracelin

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

Robert Kirby

Today, things look much rosier for American Home. The degree of uncertainty at the company is much less today than it was four or five months ago.

Kozo Hiramatsu

We will rebuild our company and keep it going for the future. But this time we promise we'll grow our company with integrity, enhanced corporate governance, and compliance.

A. Bush

We've got some people working here because of the ingenuity of the plant managers, ... . . . This company has provided housing for the folks who work here.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

Jeff Joerres

The outplacement industry has gone through much more of a severe downturn than anyone, including us, would have anticipated.

David Stern

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

Feist

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Felicity Kendal

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

Aron Ralston

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

Mike Koester

That would have tied it up. Whatever could have gone wrong did.

Kieren Fallon

That was tremendous. A lot of hard work has gone into this.He really picked up. I hoped I hadn't gone too soon as it was his first run of the season,

Stevie Wonder

We need to have more respect for each other, ... Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle.

Frederic Bastiat

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

David Harvey

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

Albert Lin

They've got about six months before they won't have the monopoly position on EV-DO,

Lawrence Lessig

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Emanuel Celler

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Sam Altman

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand.

Steve Ballmer

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Rupert Murdoch

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

Chuck Palahniuk

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Ambrose Bierce

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Brian Eno

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Peter Cardillo

I like American Telephone at 45 and 50,

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Henny Youngman

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill.

Allan Urlis

The worst thing to do is not make a telephone call.

Michael Moore

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Rick Riordan

Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

Ryan Reynolds

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.