Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Hongzhi

It is forbidden, and these people will be punished according to the law,

Stephen Wren

What is a patent troll? According to some, a patent troll is a firm who licenses patents they do not themselves commercialize. Yet, many of the large firms who are most critical of the practice do it themselves.

Mikel Olaciregui

We make festivals according to the films that are out there now. We've tried to do a balanced selection of interesting films responding to a great variety of tastes.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Nathan Brookwood

In the case of Japan, there was smoke and there was fire, at least according to the FTC there, and we'll see what happens to the Korean one.

Toshihiko Fukui

Interest rates will stay at zero for a while, then move to extremely low levels before being adjusted according to economic conditions.

Philip Larkin

In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the difference they could make / By loving others, but across most it sweeps / As all they might have done had they been loved. / That nothing cures.

James Devlin

In a company of 50,000 employees, it is a great honor to receive this distinction. Five years ago, Waste Management implemented an exciting new customer service program that operates according to the premise that perfect service can be achieved through effective employee education and communication. This initiative is called Service Machine and relies on effective tracking, timely review, analysis and ongoing coaching to ensure that these standards are consistently achieved. This group of men and women consistently lead the way, from financial performance to collection productivity improvements to growing the company's revenue.

John Thune

If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Greg Mason

Jacobson had his best game of the year and I was most encouraged by his defense.

Jim Taylor

Kids don't necessarily (even) sort out the difference between store brands and product brands.

Todd Campbell

I wouldn't be a brand new buyer of most companies, ... But old money should keep riding the wave. Don't get off the moving bus until it stops.

David Herman

Hartmann and country music share a long and rich history in Tennessee and it is therefore only natural that our two iconic brands be linked in this celebration of this year's very best.

Sam Rockwell

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

Todd Vesely

This was a good start for us. We made a few mistakes and had some steps that cost us some points, but overall it was a good day. We put ourselves in position, but (today) is a brand new competition and anything can happen.

Jonathan Pritchard

Going from zero to a well-known brand in any country takes a long time, but in the U.S. it will take a lot longer.

Richard Hayne

Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers' lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept.

Tom Zupancic

It could be a company that's nationally known, that just wants to brand itself with the NFL or specifically the Indianapolis Colts. We're looking for a company that's solid, that's growing.

Marshall Cohen

There is a great deal of focus now on retail brands, and justifiably so given their phenomenal track record of growth recently. However, this data shows that while retail brands can be highly profitable, national brands are a critical piece of a winner retail formula.

Rick Krim

I just think the nominees are so strong in the big categories and so deserving, it would be a big surprise.

Jason Gere

I just feel better about those companies who are in growing categories and have dominant market shares.

Gary Shapiro

The consumer electronics industry continues to enjoy healthy growth and consumers are faring even better thanks to competitive pricing and overall price deflation, ... While price declines and competition place pressure on profit margins, these factors also help drive total unit sales as consumers flock to join the digital era. With this in mind, we have upwardly revised sales projections for several product categories in our updated 2005 forecast report.

Michael Strauss

The current system doesn't provide for enough visas. It's plagued with an enormous backlog and doesn't provide enough visa categories to support the U.S. economy's demand for workers.

Adele Abrams

The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they amend the (Mine Safety) Act, I don't see how they are going to differentiate between the different categories of mining.

Tom Vierhile

It's the granddaddy of health claims. To even get in the game with certain food categories like dairy products you have to have a low-fat offering.

Chris Charron

They have done well in other categories and they have the technology expertise. I would certainly consider them a serious contender.

Gretchen Rubin

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

Jeff Bezos

With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.

Mike Flynn

What you have to look at, any one vehicle in a category can do well, but does it exhaust the category?

Marguerite Young

I think the category between fiction and non-fiction is nothing. The poetry of non-fiction is as fabulous as any poetry you could ever write in fiction. Poets have greatly influenced me. The only difference between the novel as poem and the lyric as poem is the difference in length.

Randy Carlyle

He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.

Dr. Cartter

If pandemics were hurricanes, 1918 was a Category 5.

Hines Ward

I just hate to see that I'm getting put into that same category because I think our situations are totally different,

Sean McAlinden

It's our Category 5, our economic New Orleans.

John Nolan

I've got a really mature point guard for a sophomore. The Considine girl doesn't like to lose and she plays that way. She not selfish - she leads us in every category - shooting, scoring, assists and steals. But her determination and work ethic rub off on everybody else.

John Gallagher

I've got a pretty good sense we're probably prepared for a Category 3, ... I don't think I'm prepared for a Category 5.

John Krasinski

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

Craig Johnson

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

Gloria Lee

He wanted most to be remembered as a down-to-earth man, who just treated every customer fairly, ... I think he really enjoyed the business, and I think he missed his customers, but he enjoyed retirement, too.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

James Collins

heroic levels of customer service, dependability, reliability, and giving people a lot of freedom to try different things that might work.

Richard Gray

It is about retail as theatre. Our customers want to come in and be entertained so we have DJs in menswear, or we play movies on screens. Merchandising has to be very eye-catching.

Scott Helbing

We're offering the tools and services that help our customers enjoy the digital lifestyle.

David Graves

It is similar to the process in Massachusetts, where it is a six-month cycle for half of the customers and then the rates are blended.

Ed Zander

I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will and our products will win on the shelves.

Daniel Boulud

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

Jaime Ray Newman

I just feel like they're a network I have a good vibe with, and I'm very grateful. My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well, and they have good, discerning taste.

Tamsin Greig

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

David Hallberg

Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.

Bible Bible

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness

Jaime Ray Newman

My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Todd Taylor

Guys know that if they want to play, they have to earn it in practice. It doesn't matter so much who starts for me but who's playing well.

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

George McPhee

He said he'll be on the flight, ... He's going to have to come in and earn his spot.

Jeff Flowers

He should be 6-0; he's given up three earned runs in three games. That's tough, in high school, to still lose.

Paul Krebs

I think the MAC has to earn respect. I don't think we've been very strategic. The league has recognized we have to do better.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Todd Olson

I'm sure the hotels in town are pretty full, with all that's going on.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Remar Harvin

This is a high-volume season for a lot of these hotels and we just couldn't find anyplace else for these people to go.

Robert Wright

The hotel is the one thing they're going to work on immediately.

Hal Daub

We're not getting those large conventions because we're short hotel rooms.

John Cleese

Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Janice Smith

It's primarily a hotel (issue). In Hamilton, we only have one major hotel.

Noel White

They were most pleased. The hotel is beautiful. It?s so well done. It was really the last piece of the puzzle.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

Geoff Sundstrom

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing.

Sen. Hill

If you had not signed it, the public would know Innovative finances. The PSC, to some extent, is responsible for Innovative not providing quality service that Virgin Islands residents deserve.

Terry Teachout

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Jack Bicknell

They have an innovative offensive scheme that is tough to defend, ... Defensively, they have some tough blitzes for us to pick up.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Renzo Rosso

E-mail represents one of the most innovative technologies of recent years.

Nick Hanauer

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Trudi Canavan

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

William Graham Sumner

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Samuel Johnson

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world

Oscar de la Renta

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

John Collison

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

Emmitt Smith

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

Ellen G. White

Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.

Kristin Armstrong

I would love to end my European campaign with the World Championship stripes on my back. But everything else that I have in my mind right now is to continue working with and having my little camps for women cyclists.

Bill Murray

Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.

Catherine Hardwicke

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

Greta Gerwig

Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.

Idris Elba

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

Ivan Reitman

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

Ken Smith

The survey will be conducted from now through May, 2006.

Werner Herzog

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

Jim Hines

If I would not have trusted him (Collins), he would not have been there.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Sidney Sheldon

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

Larry McMurtry

She trusted us more than she should have. She trusted us not to make the story unless we could make it right.

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Slash

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.

George Twigg

We don't want to be a place where you have to be wealthy to live here.