Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Margaret Spellings

As children across America get ready to start classes, our thoughts and prayers are with the children who are living along the Gulf Coast and who may not be able to return to their schools for weeks or months. I'm working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that we can help these children in any way we can. We will stick with these communities for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

Nicola Sturgeon

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.

Mitch Golub

As dealerships move more of their advertising online, they are choosing partners that deliver the highest quality of shoppers and that have the greatest impact on their bottom line. We are proud to be a premiere choice, and will continue our commitment to quality across several new online products we launched at the National Automobile Dealers Association's 89th Annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando.

Ken Cassar

...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.

Rashid Johnson

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Lynn Coady

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Rupert Murdoch

As a broadcaster, he had an uncanny knack of knowing what people across the country were thinking.

Richard Savage

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Lamar Hurd

Coaches are just making a conscious effort to get him the ball. It's just Chris being Chris. Chris has always been a scorer. And any time a guy has it going on, we are going to get him the ball. And he's been hot, so we are going to ride him out.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Richard Oster

I've been involved in a lot of start-ups, a lot of new businesses, and I've never sees a prospect like the one Chris White has developed.

George Lucas

It would have been easy to establish paternity, but because he didn't, now Chris is likely going to suffer the consequences.

Mallory Jansen

I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Jack Rio

Our defensive coaches loved Brian's physical style. He has good size and he has played a lot of man-to-man coverage, which will enable us to open up the blitz. Mike Tice confirmed what we saw as we studied this player, and he spoke highly of Brian's quality character.

Jack Rio

Our defensive coaches loved Brian's physical style. He has good size, and he has played a lot of man-to-man coverage, which will enable us to open up the blitz. Mike Tice confirmed what we saw as we studied this player, and he spoke highly of Brian's quality character.

Mike Kopp

Our conference is very strong. It's something that coaches around here, we've always known.

Keena Young

Coaches told us to take it right at him inside from that point on; it was our game plan for the night. No doubt when he got his fourth, they were hurt.

Bryan Pata

Coaches say the only way teams will start passing deep is if we're up by 21. Otherwise, they'll run, the ball, run the ball, then throw a quick slant.

John DeMarco

Coaches realized the damaging effect it can have if you don't move quickly to control any skin outbreak.

Lynne Roberts

Coaches play a role, but it's all about the players. Players make plays, and I just have an incredible group that I love to death and they just make me proud.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Matt Kujovsky

The seniors are really committed to getting back to where we were and have come out and worked hard.

Harold Phillips

The speedway program is healthy. We continue to be committed to providing a good program this season for the race fans. We're excited about this year's program. It'll be another exciting season of races.

Christopher Hill

The sooner the better (when it comes to the resumption of six-way talks). We are very much committed to the six-party talk process (and) we want to get moving on it.

Sherri Saum

A family is a group of people who are committed to loving and supporting one another. It's just that simple.

Anthony DeFazio

AFR remains committed to the St. Petersburg market. We are now marketing the building's existing vacancy.

Dan Monnat

After all, 76-year-old Robert Larson has not committed an offense in at least 18 years, has been through extensive treatment at a renowned treatment facility and has been a model prisoner for five years.

Thomas Krens

After four years, we are still trying to find our footing here, ... But we are committed to a high-level of programming and not just a repetition of masterpieces.

Alan Miller

Texas is a place where there are no limits on individual or political committee contributions and donations can and do exceed $100,000,

Paul Casey

I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Chris Cox

It would make sense to consider, and this is only under consideration, a committee that would be focused on the subject matter rather than on a corner of it within the jurisdiction of one of our committees,

Peter Rusthoven

The vice president of the United States is always a big draw. There will be people who want to see him and want to support the party, and this is a year where having some friends in the Republican National Committee is gonna be important.

Jim Houston

And with Gene, I think most of the people on the Seniors Committee don't remember him because he played so long ago.

Steve Perkins

Early on, we could throw all five guys in the same game. We're going to go with a committee of pitchers, and for them to have success, our defense is going to have to play really well. That is going to be a huge key for us.

Patrick Fleming

Folks on my committee want to make sure that Incline Village leads the visioning process.

Martin Taylor

Berti Vogts is gone and David Taylor and all the old fuddy-duddies on the SFA committee should be next to go.

Ken Flaten

Between that committee and the principals, they will form an interview committee and go from there.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

John Roth

Nortel Networks had another quarter of outstanding growth, which reflected our continued market leadership in key growth segments, ... In particular, our optical Internet, wireless Internet, and high-speed local Internet solutions revenue grew at rates of more than 150 percent, 18 percent, and 80 percent, respectively, over the second quarter of 1999.

Michael Hughes

The momentum of the first quarter has continued into the second as signs of economic growth become more prevalent.

Todd Lewis

During the last 20 minutes of negotiation, he started responding. He had had the firearm to his head or in his mouth the whole time, but he moved it to his lap. We continued to speak with him, trying to coax him out. He finally complied without incident.

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

John Davidson

Despite the decline, the ISM report was very positive, and what you can take away from it is that the economy is continuing to expand. The question for 2004 is whether that continued expansion has already been reflected in the 25 percent returns you saw in stocks last year.

Jonathan Miller

Despite some lingering trepidation due to mixed local, national and international economic conditions, the Manhattan housing market continued to improve.

Frederick W. Smith

Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about global trade and expect continued economic expansion in the U.S. and in the international markets.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Askar Akayev

develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments.

Sean Snaith

Developers see no sign of a 'bubble' bursting.

Gurpal Samra

Developers come in, they build, then they leave. But we have to live here, so we wanted to name the streets.

Scott Woodgate

Developer response has been pretty cool, ... just their middle tier.

Michael Bean

Any landowner who didn't want to pay a fee into the mitigation fund could opt out of the HCP and say to the Fish and Wildlife Service, I'm planning to develop 500 homes,

John Powers

The software development kit enables developers to grid-enable their applications very easily,

Lesley Blackner

The system is gamed to give the developer what he wants. It's ridiculous.

Anders Hejlsberg

I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Joe Nathan

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

Christopher Cox

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Angela Ahrendts

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Jesper Koll

The moment American growth slows down below, say, 2 percent, trade pressures are not just something that we talk about but are something that are really going to hit policy makers.

Harold S. Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Alan Greenspan

a process that has undoubtedly improved national productivity growth and standards of living.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

Dennis Ward

At this point, it looks like Kevin Helfer has pulled ahead,

Amanda Peet

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

Kevin Mitnick

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

John Salley

The hardest guy I had to guard: Hakeem Olajuwon. No one can guard Hakeem. And then, Kevin McHale.

Patton Oswalt

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

Mike Healy

We go the way Kevin goes. If he's playing well, we're playing well.

Chris Pine

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Alain de Botton

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Bill Hybels

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Walter Ekard

We had systems going down, and in some cases, service levels were worse than before.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Glenn Smith

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Tai Hui

Quality property at the top-end of the market is still pretty scarce,

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

O. J. Simpson

The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up.

Michael Polk

Is it a big market today? Maybe not. Could it be? Perhaps over time.

Tomi Taterka

Things are still very complicated and the market remains nervous and should stay that way for some time.

Randy Weber

I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Mark Granger

We've had a lot of vendors who have contributed. It's come together real nicely.