Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Goodstein

The X Prize is about changing paradigms. The current paradigm is that it's perfectly acceptable to drive a car that only gets 20 or 30 miles per gallon. This prize is about leveraging cash and opportunity to effect positive change in the environment, economy and geopolitics.

Adam Nelson

Five fouls is not acceptable at this level,

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

Carla Johnson

We're dialing 911. We cannot pay you to protect our water and have you use it to destroy our water ... We simply don't find it acceptable to have the solution to our 911 call be PR campaigns and pitting us against each other.

Jenny Robinson

There?s no acceptable circumstance to put a child unprotected in your car, and it?s a terrible shame someone this famous, who could have set an example, did not do so.

Christine Karbowiak

The tone is constructive. We remain hopeful that the progress will lead us to reach agreements acceptable to all parties.

Ruth Collins

We've put together the medically acceptable waiting times, the maximum time patients should be waiting. So we've done the work for them,

Bob Crow

The private sector is making millions each week out of its contracts on the Tube. Yet it is not only failing to deliver promised improvements but has also demonstrably failed to maintain a crucial safety system to acceptable standards.

Adam Pertman

We turn real-live, flesh-and-blood women into baby-making machines who are supposed to give us their products and go away. Well, that's not acceptable on a human level and not acceptable on a practical level.

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Thomas Jones

We've seen a greater change in consumer behavior with this tax increase than we expected.

Doug Williams

There are multiple motivations for an arsonist's behavior,

Paul Ellis

When I discuss the idea of SRI with clients, many will say, well, yes, I'm very interested in the environment or in scrutinizing corporate behavior more closely.

John Nash

We will not tolerate this type of behavior from any player. We will continue to demand a higher level of professionalism and personal responsibility from all of our players or we will continue to take appropriate action.

Scott Westerfeld

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Sidney Poitier

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Nolan Bushnell

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Nancy Peterson

The students are there to take down names and family information. They then input that information on the (Red Cross Family Links) Web site, and conduct searches.

George Robertson

public trust is essential to an effective judicial system and one judge's conduct may have a significant impact upon the public's perception of the entire judicial system ...

Jim Petro

I've never, nor would I ever, not conduct an appropriate investigation.

Christopher Dodd

This is the first time in more than 200 years that the federal government will take a very proactive role in the conduct of elections,

Chris Swecker

We all know why we are here. This is as much about deterrence as it is conducting investigations.

Tommy Franks

Feedback from the special forces conducting the raid,

Bhagavad Gita

Persons of demonic nature do not know what to do and what not to do. They neither have purity nor good conduct nor truthfulness.

Robert H. Grubbs

Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.

Brad Mitchell

If, after conducting market research, we find the public wants Christopher, we may revisit the decision.

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Terry Boe

Michelle has to take the front seat tonight. She led our team up and down the floor tonight.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Rick Forney

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

Brian Cupples

The floor was really open. We were able to get to the basket. Our kids made plays.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Stephen Braveman

The floor is a nice place to be when you're trying to be quiet and have intimacy. You can't hit your head on anything, and you have more space to spread out.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Timm Bechter

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Linda Sherry

Even if you lose, the message will start to be heard.

Andy Stanley

Environments are the messages before the message.

Jose Garza

We need the permanent checkpoints - they send a message of deterrence.

Johnny Depp

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Tom McClintock

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws." ()

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

James Humphrey

I didn't think they would be that quick. They just took off.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Jerry Sloan

That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.