Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

I would say that right now we're pretty satisfied with where we are. I don't think we will be actively out shopping and trying to make a deal or anything like that.

P. Herbert

Investors who are in an actively managed small-cap fund that has had high returns for several years and has grown in size should expect management to eventually close the fund to new investors. Two examples of funds that did this are Dreyfus Mid Cap Value and Artisan Mid Cap Value , which announced they were closing in early 2002.

Laura Eimiller

Investigators are actively looking into what other crimes he may have been involved in around the country.

David Lord

In the past month, the company had been involved in an aggressive effort to reorganize its business and focus on programs that would best meet the needs of its investors, shareholders and partners, ... While a plan to fund the company's activities as a business-to-business operation was actively underway, negotiations collapsed at the last minute. When negotiations broke down, the board determined to cease operations and is now seeking to sell the company.

Robert Joseph

Iran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons capability and, if successful, the weapons could embolden the leadership in Tehran to advance its aggressive ambitions in and outside of the region, both directly and through the terrorists it supports.

Ephraim Sneh

Iran actively and relentlessly undermines the peace process through various terrorist organizations. When such a regime has a long-range capacity combined with a tremendous effort to combine it with nuclear projects, it's of great concern to Israel.

Richard Berman

In a democracy, all leaders should be accountable. How can union leaders be held accountable if they won't even hold elections? It is imperative that union members be made aware that their purported 'leaders' actively preclude employees' voices from being heard.

Bill Ford

In addition, we are working with fuel providers to expand the infrastructure needed to provide ethanol. And we're going to actively engage customers so they will understand that they have (flex-fuel vehicle) options.

Tom Kilian

In 2005, we also faced challenges in both our segments. Results in our Senior Segment were impacted by a higher-than-anticipated Medicare supplement loss ratio. Our Medical Segment was affected by increased severity of larger dollar claims. In 2006, we continue to actively address these issues as we remain focused on our ongoing business strategy of growth in our Senior Segment and stability in our Medical Segment.

Trevor Rabin

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

Aaron Hungerford

He showed me he wants to expand his game. I would bring him aside and tell him to take his time and wait for his shot and he applied it. He's easy to coach.

Samuel E. Morison

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Marcia Miquelon

It involves physical contact with a partner using the sharing of weight and the momentum of bodies moving through space. The rules and principles of improvisation were applied generally to come up with a new form called contact improvisation.

Juan Diaz

it is a criteria that eventually could be applied and extended to any other case.

John Bailey

I think the products are safe and I think that the best science is being applied to making that determination that they're safe.

Jim Bates

I was disappointed when I didn't get job but that happens in this business. He applied for the job just like I did and I came in second, I hope I came in second. I'm going to be fine with whatever I choose.

Patrick McCoy

I didn't want to be ungrateful or picky, but I only applied to places I would want to end up living at. So I e-mailed the chief copy editor and he wrote me back right away - 'Congratulations on the program, thanks for the e-mail, we will give you $500 a week ...' He was totally cool about it." ()

Russ Cooper

Our recommendation to our customers is to get patches applied within 90 days, because the normal mechanisms should prevent this from getting to your organization.

Sen Jenkins

There is no assurance if you cut the (tax) by 3 cents, the consumer gets a dime of it.

John Donaldson

his assurance to the party that whenever he calls the next general election there'll be a massive victory by the PNM.

Dan Wilson

The concern has to do with the problem Macon has with giving resources and support to neighborhoods that it deems are expendable, ... All I wanted was some assurance this had been thought through.

Ridha Jawad

The important principle here is that this provides an assurance (to Sunnis) that this constitution is not the end of history but is subject to amendment,

Mohamed ElBaradei

The more we see, the more credible assurance we can provide to the council, the more the council can come to closure on this issue and come to the conclusion that Iraq has been disarmed. That is the objective.

Jonathan Scott

It was a sense of assurance when he stepped on the field, and everyone in the huddle just had that twinkle in their eye knowing we could get the job done. It was extra motivation to know that despite any kind of odds he can make it happen.

Mark Fox

The only assurance we have is, because we won our league, we would be in the NIT. All respect to the NIT, but that's not where these kids want to go.

Lewis Hallam

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Bill Watterson

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Jim Watson

It is not unusual that by completion of this program the pilot project will have already returned an ROI significantly exceeding the cost of the program.

Patricia Myers

The completion and enactment of the master plan is a priority,

Richard Turner

Once the ferry terminal is moved (about 1,000 yards to the north, where construction is rapidly moving toward completion by early 2006), no one will ever remember that it was a rescue site. That's why we wanted to make sure it was put there.

Willie Martinez

They (WVU) do such a great job with the run game that they don't have to throw very often. They are ranked 115th in the country in the pass game, but then you see that they have a 62-percent pass completion rating and think that isn't right.

Jeff Clarke

This is the fourth consecutive quarter of operating expense reductions and reflects the rapid completion of our restructuring program and stringent cost control.

Pedro Alba

Between the point of decision and the point of completion, each creditor can reduce the debt servicing; it is an individual decision. The point of completion has no fixed time. That depends on the performance of each country in the implementation of measurements which were decided.

Larry Bush

I don't think we will ever be able to stop. It's finishing (construction on) one before starting another one, but always having them all on the table and continuing to work toward the ultimate completion of all of them.

Bud Selig

I don't regard this as an interim step, I regard this as the completion of a long process.

Bill Douglas

Minnesota will have to wait their turn, ... We'll relinquish our jurisdiction over him upon completion of our criminal case.

George Touart

What we went through is exactly the same as what you're facing. It's just more widespread there. Ivan hit three counties here and Katrina hit three states there.

Pam Iorio

I think we'll look at any high ground, ... It may not be where people wind up for the long haul. But, yes, I think we have to look to our neighboring county -- all of our neighboring counties -- that are inland and away from water.

Greg Taylor

Hopefully the state can work out a system soon that more equitably distributes education resources in our state, something desperately needed by low wealth counties like Bladen,

Carolyn Williams

He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituents about what is on their mind.

Peggy Harrell

I know that Hunt and Wise counties have had widespread grassfires. I don't think that Plano has been affected, thank goodness.

John Cavacini

The issue before the West Virginia Legislature is an issue of county option elections -- should voters of particular counties decide?

Tommy Thompson

The counties that are losing jobs and they are so poor simply don't have the money to compete. In the piedmont they're paying teachers bonuses to teach. In the eastern part of the state, they're lucky to find teacher willing to live here.

Jennifer Kerns

All options are on the table, including mail elections. The secretary has supported them in the past as a way to give counties more options.

Mike Winters

Absolutely. There's a big distinction between other counties in the large number of livestock. You're not going to see too many emus in the city.

Greg Harris

He knew he was going to run for mayor when he got that money. People who gave to the county party didn't give for that purpose,

Ray Anderson

Harris County and Montgomery County will be part of the group that will do the maintenance work.

Bruce Johnson

It could have been Peggy, or it could have been me, or it could have been the grandbabies. The county needs to do something about this dog business. I think they should have put those dogs down.

David Samson

We told (Wolff) we wouldn't waste his time. We have too much respect for the county judge and the mayor. This has never been about leverage in South Florida. This is about finding a home for the Marlins.

Jeff Leitner

We may not be able to depend on having all our employees. The county tells us that as many as 30 percent of employees may not show up for work.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.

Terry Brooks

If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.

S. Hughes

Instead of subsidizing exporters in other counties, Schenectady County will share in revenues from these efforts.

Al Warden

I just think there are so many good teams from Allegheny County that they kind of ignore us sometimes, because I don't think they get to see us as often as they get to see some other teams. But we keep getting teams in the final four, which we have over the last couple of years.

Paul Friel

He's drilling him with all kinds of questions.

Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Robert Adair

The next few months should prove very interesting with the drilling programme about to start in Bulgaria. In Egypt, I am excited about the El Tamad oil discovery.

Chris Zwettler

They were drilling us. We clamped down in the third quarter. The press helped us pick up our energy level.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Elmore Lockley

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

Arthur Mitchell

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

Russ Halverson

Because we've been drilling, drilling and drilling them (in practice), there's only so much you can do.

Travis DeWalt

I don't think there's a day that goes by that we don't talk about his situation. When he's drilling in the room, he's not drilling moves. He's wrestling a state tournament match every day in the room.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

David Andrews

The economics were not as strong as obviously the Robinsons would've liked.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Joan Robinson

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

James Walston

All the economics have gotten worse in the past five years. The process is going to be very painful.

Red McCombs

We'd have to see what the economics actually are. My primary interest is in seeing San Antonio has an opportunity to secure a franchise.

Mike McCall

We're studying it hard. We can't yet justify it; we can't make the economics work yet.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

Leonard Hamilton

I think we're a little further along. We have a better understanding of our system.

Vinnie Robinson

It goes further than St. Patty's or the month of March. People come out proud of heritage.

Bud Selig

I will review all of the material that is relative in every way. At some point in time I'll have further comment, but until that point in time I will have no further comment.

Jay Wright

I think they know how hard it's going to be to get any further than that.

Don Garber

In the immediate and long-term future, today's news will prove to be a historical turning point for the sport. These recent developments further solidify soccer's standing and value as a major television property in the United States with even greater future potential.

Ian Shepherdson

(The GDP and inflation data) won't prevent modest further easing,

Markus Steinbeis

The gas row between Russia and Ukraine should further support the sector.

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.

Tim Moe

I think we've improved more than they have. Warroad has a lot of juniors and seniors but our young kids have picked it up.

Russ Biundo

He has improved remarkably. Still, we have a long way to go.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Phil Garner

Their pitching is much improved over last year,

Kiki Vandeweghe

It's well deserved. He's just improved by leaps and bounds. I'm really, really happy... He really works to make his team better.

Guus Hiddink

There was little in it then and we have improved in the last year, ... It looks fifty-fifty but we're confident.

Robert Broadfoot

It really hasn't improved much in 20 years.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Joanne Wuensch

If you want to step back, yeah, they are mucking up Johnson & Johnson's bid.

Bob Poole

I'm 0-17 in Milford in the regular season in my 17 years of coaching. When you have second and third and no one out, you start thinking that maybe this is the one. But Johnson just shut us down.

Kurt Busch

Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody!

Muddy Waters

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

John Avery

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

William Hamilton

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Matt Czuchry

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

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.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Sarah Addison Allen

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Sarah Addison Allen

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Michael Chang

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Chuck Hill

I think that Q4 results will be terrible.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness is the result of what you do.

Takashi Oya

Results were just as strong as we expected.

Mark Hurd

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

Gabriel Hortobagyi

Clearly, the results are not evolutionary but revolutionary.

Ryan Zimmerman

I'm not too worried about results right now. I'm just trying to go out and see some live pitching.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Kristy Curry

I have seen her do that on film.

Homaro Cantu

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

George Steiner

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.