Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burt Rutan

Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun.

Mike Wallace

Just merging the two organizations has a lot of challenges, ... The potential pitfalls and opportunities for disagreements exceed whatever benefits could be gained.

Larry Ellison

Joe brings perspective and experience not commonly found in Silicon Valley companies, ... In the last few years we have transformed Oracle Corporation into the leader in e-business. Joe will help us clearly and broadly communicate the benefits of e-business and e-government.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry has made up a false measurement to support his ongoing efforts to talk down the economy, ... John Kerry's support for higher taxes on small business, Social Security benefits and gasoline would bring misery to America's working families.

Bill Whyde

I think it's a good idea. The economic benefits will be great. It will make millions of dollars for the city. They will hire 3,200 people. Hopefully most of them will be from Barstow.

Jennifer Robinson

I think it means there's a lot of work to be done, not just getting information but actually making it so that they want to come in and get screened. They can see the benefits of an early screening process for the overall health.

Dave Sheffield

It benefits you winning those games because your kids get a little more confidence. But other than that it doesn't mean much.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Radio Entertainment

has offered our musicians an extremely fair contract proposal. ... The contract includes increases in salary and benefits and fully protects the existing overtime system. They have rejected that proposal and walked away from the table.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

John Jones

Just like so many tax laws, I think businesses are frequently unaware of these very valuable credits.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Rob Robinson

There are a lot of small businesses who are having a tough time making it through the first quarter of the year.

Kenneth Chenault

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

Kenneth Chenault

Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Malcolm Edey

What we have been seeing is a change in the composition of growth, with businesses rather than households now the main drivers of growth in domestic spending.

John Barton

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

William Korman

I take no issue with why she chose not to work here. But to then insult me by saying I'm not a real lawyer - that's offensive.

David Brickman

He chose one of my pictures for a prize, (so) I sent him a catalog. It was spontaneous and completely a surprise.

Tim Ruskell

He chose not to do that. We were able to grow together. Has he helped me? There is no question.

Donald Trump

He chose not to do that, I guess,

Gil Brandt

He chose not to come because he had a paper due the following Monday. The guy has pretty good study habits.

Andrew Morton

Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... There is no point in pretending any more.

Rick Carlisle

He's a legit point guard with size, he's an excellent defender, and he still hasn't entered his prime, ... The other thing we like about Chauncey is that he really wants to be here. He chose us over 12 to 14 other teams. That means a lot.

Kathryn Flicker

He showed no pity. He showed no compassion. He showed no mercy. He deserves none for what he chose to do.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Martin

Historically, any time of serious domestic economic struggle has had negative effects on the entertainment industry, as consumers re-prioritize the expenditure of their discretionary income.

Raul Vazquez

It is a digital holiday. Consumers are really responding to all things electronic.

Mark Savage

I think the lesson for consumers is?read the contract.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

John Nolan

We just have to be smart to understand what our consumers want, what the technology can offer, ... In that sense, we're ready for the Internet to be a disruptive technology and completely disrupt our normal volumes. How much and to what extent remain to be seen. But it's also a supportive technology; we see tremendous opportunities in being able to reach more customers in a much richer fashion through the Internet.

Gary Miller

With more gasoline being produced and less worry of production disruptions, consumers can expect lower and more stable gasoline prices.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Dick Cheney

To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled.

Stella Young

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

George Young

Introducing legislation with exemptions and loopholes would deny protection to the many thousands of workers in the hospitality industry who are currently exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke, and substantially increase health inequalities in the poorest communities.

David Foster

In that compressed time, the rat is replaying the entire track from where it currently is all the way back to the very beginning. This result suggests that the immediate experience is actually recapitulated several times. The processing going on outside of the original experience may be important for learning.

Robert Greenstein

If you're young and healthy, this can work well. If you're not young and healthy, it can be a disaster, and you can end up much worse off than you currently are.

Martin Scorsese

Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

Doug Wilson

Josh didn't do anything wrong, but this gives us some flexibility on our roster. This is the way the waiver rule should work. Players like that should be playing in this league. We had a good talk this morning.

Kevan Barlow

I talk to him all the time, and he gives me his opinions about our situation, ... He might as well be Nostradamus , because he predicted everything Ê that we're going through.

Jeffrey Edelman

I think it gives them another way to become more visible.

Steve Sanders

I think it gives me more of a leadership role on the team, because some of the guys know I have a son and they see how I act,

Charlene Lui

I think it is a good idea because it gives everyone responsibility.

Harold Wilson

He wanted to play hard. He gives it all he's got. That's why I've got to sub him pretty frequently, because he plays hard.

Bruce Bochy

He can play all three outfield positions and first base. He's a solid player. He gives you quality at-bats.

Dennis Tomasevicz

He just gives it 100-percent everything he does.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Henry Chan

I think it's a healthy correction, some valuations got a little high.

Felipe Alou

He seemed to be healthier today, his legs and everything. He said he needed work and threw 52 pitches.

Karl Dorrell

He's healthy enough, he's throwing the ball, he's getting his timing back,

Nick Saban

We try to prevent health problems from happening. We space practices out where you have two meals and two opportunities to get hydrated.

Irwin Redlener

We're playing Russian roulette with public health here.

Bob Filner

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

Jacques Rogge

We support that (tests). The reason for the tests is to protect the health of the athletes. These are health tests, they are not doping tests.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Scott Shaffer

In 12 years of coaching, including nine years here, I?d never seen an overtime game. Now I?ve seen two.

Bill Reynolds

If you go back, including the Reynolds, I?m part of the Murphy?s, the McNally?s and the Cass. My sister even married an O?Brien recently.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

Pat Symonds

If you feel that you can get through a season with 10 sets of parts, but you make 20 just in case, that's wasteful - but if you make 12, that's a small insurance policy.

Trevor Rowe

If you're in the insurance industry, you want to be able to diversify your portfolio because that spreads your risk.

Drayton McLane

The insurance policy, from their point of view, would be the strongest if he did not come to spring training. I'm unsure of where we are on that.

Jay Bryson

The insurance payments are going to go away. The outlook remains very bleak.

Peter Vann

The insurance margin was at the lower end of expectations.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Tim Chelling

I think what it shows is that some of these issues are perennial. Some of these issues have worked themselves out.

Marshall Acuff

I think this could go on for another year or more. There is no short-term resolution of the major issues in sight.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Brett Norris

Just looking at them, they really like to mix up their defenses a lot. They play a lot of zone but will switch it up. We will have to try to recognize that.

Willie Randolph

Kaz is looking much better. It might be the right time for him to get going, so that's good.

Chris Stein

Being inducted seems to mean a lot to a lot of people, and by proxy that has sort of rubbed off on me. But it's not necessarily a mandate from the masses, so I don't know. We'll see.

Ken Hammond

Any time you mandate something, you're going to have more resistance to it.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lee Ferridge

The mandate for Koizumi is stronger than many had anticipated,

James Lankford

There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship.

Ian Stannard

The reform mandate is probably not going to be as strong as it would have been under an outright victory by Merkel.

John Earl

OPG is not considering anything as a site. We have no mandate for that.

Larry Smith

There's no mandate that they be open. There's no mandate that they pump gas. There's no mandate to do anything.

Gene Smith

Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Jon Brayshaw

I will offer no preconceived solutions. The worst thing in the world is for the first selectman to tell them what to do.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Bill Tolford

We may never get another offer like that.

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Conroy Hines

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders. This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

John Campbell

I think it's an opportunity to have some new blood,

Laurence Geller

Las Palmas may have a better use than being solely a Marriott hotel. There is a lot of residential opportunity there.

Gary Davis

We feel it was a real opportunity to demonstrate that the power is back for the WWE. We have the opportunity to have a strong one-two punch.

Jake Plummer

We thought we would get an opportunity (to make big plays),

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

Meghan Flynt

The neurologist told me that it would be a year before I could possibly play soccer again. That's not what I wanted to hear. I was crushed.

Rufus Earle

They did everything they possibly could in their way of thinking, their way of disciplining him.

Lilly Singh

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Chuck Jordan

It's just something I thought his supervisors would want to know about, and possibly the public.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Paul Reiser

There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Michelle Gomez

Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.

Shaquille O'Neal

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

Nick Cave

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Daimon Shelton

He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is, he'll respond. We'll all respond.

William Shatner

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Robert Stone

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Winston Graham

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Yves Saint Laurent

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.