Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

We intend to be the benchmark of collegiate football polls.

Daniel Barcelo

We continue to see Exxon Mobil as the benchmark for operational performance in the sector. On ROCE (return on capital employed), Exxon Mobil continues to lead the industry and we see this leadership sustained through our forecast period through 2009.

Robert Rosen

The problem is, unless you are benchmarking your own work, it is hard to decide what value the benchmark has. Usually it is just another data point and it allows you to compare two different systems.

William Sullivan

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

Tiger Woods

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

Jackson Wong

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.

Ellen MacArthur

Francis has set us another very high benchmark - the chances of breaking it are very slim but if we don't try, we won't know.

James Preissler

The perception here is that traffic on the Internet was weak and, definitely, Yahoo!'s numbers are going to be used as a proxy or benchmark for the other players in the space.

Mike Babcock

There are a whole bunch of teams right now that think they have an opportunity. Everybody looks at us and says, 'If they did it, we can do it.' The measure of a great coach, player and organization is the test of time. Being recognized as good isn't a one-time thing, so you have to hang around to earn that. That's what Detroit and New Jersey have done by each winning three Cups in a 10-year span. If you want to be a benchmark team, you have to do it again.

Donald Trump

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Sam Zell

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

Michael Hutchison

is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

Pat Quillen

We don't want to make a fortune. We just want to make a living.

Lucan

Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

William Shakespeare

Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Richard Windsor

Once again, the stellar performance of mobile phones has been marred by difficulties at Nokia networks.

Jeaniene Frost

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Roxanne Rogers

She auditioned in ramp modeling, and also read a commercial.

Rich Brooks

There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,

Rabih Alameddine

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

Eddie Bellamy

The only time that ramp actually works right is at about half-tide and above.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

Rich Galen

What it reminded me of the other day is 'Baghdad Bob' saying there are no Americans at the airport.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

S. Walker

I keep being reminded about how tough the remainder of our schedule is. But we just need to worry about us, not about who we're going to play.

Rhys Ifans

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

Greg Walker

It wasn't so much what we told him. We just reminded him of some things that he had done in the past.