Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Guynn

With gasoline at or near $3 a gallon recently, and other energy costs such as natural gas almost doubling in the past year, consumers may face tough choices in how they allocate their spending.

Renzo Piano

We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street.

Ed Williams

There's no real reason to restrict our development to traditional street venues. Traditional street venues are getting so much more competitive it almost behooves you to look at possible alternatives.

Mark McKinnon

There's no question the president's legacy will be dominated by Iraq. The war is really driving almost everything in government.

Mike Matherne

There's not a lot of expense involved if a student wants to see if they like the sport. They can check out almost anything here and see if they like the sport.

David Berson

There's no sign that investor demand has softened at all. The things that would have caused a slower housing market, such as higher mortgage rates, simply aren't present, and we're now almost halfway through the year.

Terry Crisp

There's no doubt he was the key factor in us winning. People don't realize what a job he did. We lost his defense partner Gary Suter in the first round, so he was playing almost 30 minutes a night. And at a very high level.

Keith Douglas

There's no excuse for it. My wife and I waited 10 years for these children. For the police to almost take their lives, there's no excuse for it.

Jim Szabo

The total is considerably more that $750,000, but these are the kinds of things that would have to be cut. The board will have to decide from there. But these things are almost all personnel-related. We've cut as much as there is to cut in other areas.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

John Warren

Sarah pitched a pretty good game for her first outing. I'm happy with her. We had one bad inning and that cost us the game. Losing never changes. It still hurts as much as it did 12 years ago (when he started coaching).

Bill Maris

Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.

Robert Mintz

Prosecutors have to show this was not simply bad management and bad judgment, but outright fraud. The only way to do that is with insiders.

Michael Sandler

Quite honestly, it's a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is our portfolio is not as cheap as it was at the beginning of the year.

Billy Donovan

Quite honestly, I'm not concerned about that. I'm more worried about making sure that this team understands what's a good shot, what's a bad shot, going into the season.

Scott Robinson

Quite frankly I was shocked at our performance on Wednesday. To play like we did Saturday then turn around and play that bad Wednesday was very surprising.

Marc Lipsitch

Putting a lot of hopes on it is a bad idea.

Tiger Woods

Put it this way. If I hit a couple of bad shots, I feel like it's not the end of the world. I can fit it and I can move on and I can still post a really good number. Before, it would be damage control and somehow try and wheel around it and shoot somewhere around par or even under par. But that's not the case.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Kathy Sierra

It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ... We sang to some people there people from everywhere. Everybody liked it. A few people cried. It was real emotional.

Drew Goddard

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.

Peter Zumthor

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

Diane Wagner

We probably wouldn't have built there if we knew that we wouldn't be able to handle the capacity.

Carroll Shelby

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

Vicente Fox

I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

Tim O'Reilly

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Susan Gallagher

What's happening is we own very little generation; the utility companies own very little generation. As a result we have to go out for power when the current contract expires, which happens at the end of 2006. If you think of natural gas and the way it operates now, that will be the way we will operate after 2006.

Filippo Luca

The fact that two leading companies in the industry may take part in mergers is sending a positive message. This is a market that can be sustained by M&A.

Jeanne Salvatore

When there's a disaster, insurance companies practice a form of triage and go to the worst damages first.

David Allen

We want to be sure we have it all right. Reconciling all the various salaries between the two companies was more complicated than expected. We didn't want to put it in place before it was ready.

Kenny Frerichs

Those companies typically have small IT staffs and they typically haven't made a lot of investment in management tools.

Promod Haque

Lot of technology companies in India are hoping for better relationship with the US.

Alan Ackerman

Lots of money has moved to the sidelines, ... People are not comfortable with the uncertainty ahead, made up of the fact that many of the tech companies keep lowering their guidance.

Eric Chaney

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Tom Mihalovich

Sometimes we try too hard. We were trying to make too good of plays.

Kent Mueller

Sometimes we get, I don't want to say unrealistic, but our expectations are awfully high. That's not to take anything away from Madison. We had some lapses defensively, which is not typical. But at the same time, the offense was so good so early, which really isn't typical.

Gerard Houllier

Sometimes we do not know what happens inside ourselves, but the good thing is that it seems a minor thing and he will be back training the team,

Brad Richards

Sometimes those things happen. You put the puck on net and good things happen. Sometimes you are on the right side of the puck.

Ted Epley

Sometimes they just don't go in. We had good looks from inside and out.

Bill Brown

Sometimes there are too many people who tell you how good they are. And Jordan is the opposite. He'll just go out and show you.

Andi Ferris

Sometimes it's harder to hang onto a small lead than it is to come back from one. It's frustrating at times, but it's part of coaching. The ladies did a good job of protecting the ball, and the lead today; we did a good job all-around.

Paul Stewart

Sometimes, it's good to spend more and get quality service that's going to save you money in the long run.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

James Madison

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Jimi Hendrix

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

John McCain

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

Terry Eagleton

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.