Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sizwe Kupelo

As a department we cannot allow a situation where our patients are put at risk.

Chuck D.

The Bush administration, with its doctrinal commitment to unfettered deregulation, has insisted that this situation can be resolved by allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves,

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Rahul Dravid

Reactions are always extreme when you lose or win, but these players are fully equipped and will not allow the performance to affect.

Mike Janko

Our estate tax laws allow the heirs to inherit property with a new cost basis which is equal to the fair market value.

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Joe Kinch

Offensively, I'm not sure what you'd call that in the first half. We didn't allow anything and neither did they. As ugly as it was offensively, it was pretty solid defensively. If you're into defense, it was pretty entertaining.

Howard Rubin

No single measure or investment can help an organization support the growth and direction of its business, but organizations that develop ongoing strategic performance management programs that allow them to manage their performance and track their competitive environment will be first in managing business growth, strategy and operations effectively.

Daniel Wann

No one wants to curb enthusiasm, but in the process if people are getting injured schools can't allow that to happen. You may see a further separation from players and fans. The problem is when fans really do become part of the action.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Sir Stringer

Apple?s market capitalization is $50 billion based on a handful (of products). We have thousands and our market cap is less than that. Is there a message in there? Can?t we just keep it simpler?

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Emery Holmik

A realistic expectation is somewhere between five and seven medals, which would exceed our best performances in Nagano (1998) and Lake Placid (1932). It's based on how our team has performed in World Cup races.

Bill Coleman

A raise should be based on performance and market data establishing the value of your job.

Shannon Flaherty

Any new decision they make is probably based more on their need for cash than upholding their credibility.

Michelle Fischer

And the misuse rate is about 90 percent in Brevard County, based upon the child passenger safety check up events that we have held locally.

Thomas Byrne

(The six-party talks) looked like a breakthrough in September 2005, but based on the subsequent interpretation of that by the Korean Foreign Ministry, there is a lot of uncertainty as to where we are.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having 'black hair,' but all black hair is not alike.

Brentson Buckner

As a group, they're one of the best offensive lines we've faced all year.

David Wood

As a gay man, I want it to win the Oscar but I don't think it will. I don't think the general population is ready to see this movie win the Best Picture award.

Howard Silverblatt

The bulge in cash is permitting companies to simultaneously finance record levels of stock buybacks and dividends,

Larry Young

People say they're going to go get cash and don't come back.

Robert Doll

Depending on the degree to which earnings slow, the dollar declines, corporations and individuals put cash to work and a variety of other factors, we can envision a scenario where the markets decline and then rebound to finish the year in the black.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Larry Rice

The mutual funds are trying to make up for a god-awful performance and they're going to put whatever cash they have to work.

Matthew Kelmon

Now Microsoft has no excuses. The cash is going to be put to work.

Hal Kvisle

So our challenge, in this era, is to find good opportunities where we can take that stable cash flow from the regulated pipes and re-invest it in new high-quality opportunities.

David Lindsay-Abaire

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

Jennifer Grey

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Steve Parker

This is an extremely serious crime where the victims have been threatened with extreme violence.

Edward Garnier

This Government has tied our police up in so much red tape that instead of being on the streets dealing with crime they now spend half their time at their desks.

Gerhard Schroeder

This crime deeply shocked all of Germany and united it in sadness and sympathy,

Jim Carlin

This crime can be solved here in Calhoun County. There's a lot of people that know what happened.

Jeff Hawkins

This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Asa Butterfield

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Harold Miller

I've been here 13 years and decided it was time to take time off and then find opportunities where I can help grow the region,

Michael Waltrip

I've never had a problem with Robby, ... Like I said, I just held my ground is all I did and he just decided he wanted to take that place from me instead of working for it.

Steve Cherundolo

The whole matter will be decided within the next three to four weeks as I want to have things settled before the World Cup.

George Nessman

This is extremely disappointing. New Mexico State played great in the second half. We have lost so many (games) in the final two minutes. It is heartbreaking for our team and our staff. By our count, we are 1-9 in games decided in the last three minutes. We are trying to put our fingers on it. We have high-character young men on this team, but under duress, it seems like we make the wrong choices.

Rudi Giuliani

This is hallowed ground, sacred ground, ... We decided to put up these platforms because there's been so much of an interest in seeing this site.

Edward Hill

This ... is a statement (that) Ohio has decided that we don't want to get in the way of increasing productivity. It's a statement that productivity is what the economic future of the state is going to depend on.

Jacques Rogge

This is not something which will be decided overnight. It would need a long consultation process.

Greg Biffle

Roush is putting everything into a third championship and the National Guard team is more focused that I've ever seen them. It's an exciting position to be in right now.

Ayrton Senna

Fear is exciting for me.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Jerry Hollendorfer

When the horse made his exciting finishes and was running on late very strong, we thought the horse might have some potential.

Brian McKnight

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

Lindsay Bowen

We're playing four straight at home, and it's exciting to play in front of big crowds. We just have to keep getting better now that we're playing games at a higher level like this week. We're really looking forward to it.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Kris Draper

Those two kids are special. And the new rules are going to be exciting for them.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Veronica Corpuz

It would leave the producers and our patrons in a fix and we don't want to jeopardize the experience for anyone.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Carson McCullers

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Alan Davies

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Austin Carlile

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

Brian Cox

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Barry Levinson

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Bruce Chatwin

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

Bruce Chatwin

For life is a journey through a wilderness

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Marc Chandler

Once we got through an important technical level that triggered a lot of stops. We went through the level that the technicians thought was a bottom.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Jen Lancaster

I’m busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this is the place to get them. Earlier today, a customer picked up one of the enormous chandelier-style offerings and asked, 'Do those be genuine rhimestones?' I couldn’t even begin to explain everything that was wrong with her sentence, so I simply replied, 'Yes. They do be genuine.

George Canning

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Ken Kesey

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Kevin Hart

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Doug Holland

People say, 'Just shut the borders,' but they don't understand what that'll do to the agriculture in this country.

Michael Boyd

People say it will be like FedEx for people,

Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Carine Roitfeld

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Kevin Davis

People say I do a lot, but I'm just doing what I enjoy.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Claudio Reyna

I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

Liz Phair

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

Bill Gates

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

Bill Gates

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.