Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kozo Hiramatsu

If we find it necessary to change the company name, we'll decide it based on the results of that research.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

Oliver Hoyte

If they were the first school to offer me, I would have committed right then and there. They're right in my back yard. All these other schools are recruiting you from out of state, and this school's five minutes from your house. They should have been the first school to offer me. I pretty much based my decision off that.

Brian Corcoran

She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this season. She knows she has the opportunity to place highly in the state based upon her current fitness.

Kanniks Kannikeswaran

She will be playing Indian music, based on raga, which is something unique to Indian classical music. It is of a melodic idea with a lot of improvisation involved.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Dan Sheeran

Some consumers start with a la carte, then learn about the benefits of subscription and switch. We believe that many consumers will choose their services based on the device they choose.

Conrad Burke

Some 90 percent of solar cells are based on crystalline bulk silicon and there has been no sign of a breakthrough leading to a next-generation technology. We think we have come up with unique ways to do that.

Jeff Koinange

Some observers have said they found irregularities on election day -- like the electoral centers being based in people's homes, in chiefs' homes rather than in neutral places like schools or fields,

Henk Bekedam

A disease in one country is a threat to another, ... the best chance to eradicate or contain a new infectious disease is when it emerges.

Devorah Goldburg

A disaster like this Katrina brings out the best in people, but unfortunately, it also brings out the worst in people, too.

Darren Lindsey

A father - son transplant would have the best chance for success, and I want to keep my dad around as long as I can.

Abraham Lincoln

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Andy Brunner

The one thing I don't have to worry about with Nick and Brian is their off-season tournament schedule. They'll travel to Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Kansas City -- wherever they can go to play the best competition. Their work ethic is second to none and they are great role models for the rest of the team.

Bubba Davis

The ones who have been here have been doing more in practice than they would normally. Sometimes the best way to get back into shape in a situation like this is through practice.

John Barker

The oil companies will do the best that they can to explain the complexity of bringing oil to the market, explaining the variables of weather disasters and international conflicts and so forth,

Rodney Selph

Theo has really played well. He's one of our best defenders.

Dave Balza

After a careful and complete review of the facts, we thought it best that these players leave the team. This was a very difficult decision to make, but one that was necessary.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Leo Apotheker

Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.

Harold Hughes

Many of these are wonderful companies that we would like to have engineering relationships with. I think it would be only as a last resort that we dealt with litigation.

Susan Kalla

Many, many companies have failed, competing with or selling to the Bells.

Eric Mason

Many Japanese companies are now much more focused on enhancing shareholder value, which is creating a lot of opportunities for M&A in general.

Sam Altman

Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

Alex Pareene

Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups.

Larry Johnson

Many companies still seem unwilling to report e-crime for fear of damaging their reputation,

John Challenger

Many companies have now had over two years of strong profitability. They haven't yet completely reinvested that in technology, but as they gain economic strength, they will.

Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Charles Figley

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Steve Smitson

Employers could be required to register. They could post wage bonds.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Patrick McDonald

These are the kind of people we like to remove from society and we were very successful.

Elaine Stritch

This is for people who have dough. It's expensive. That's the way it is.

Shannon Sickels

This is for all the people who went before us and all the people who would like to come after us.

Rich Carnevale

This is going to be something Princeton people have never seen before.

Richard Power

This is a problem that not enough people really are clued into.

Thomas Miller

This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions. You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains.

Robert Cendro

This is an unbelievable surface. People who haven't seen it or weren't sure what it was are going to say, ?Wow!' It's just incredible.

Mark Viator

This is a team sport. We need as many people there as possible.

Madeline Albright

This is a special time because of a lot of people traveling, so we thought that it was important. There are threats, and so that's why we think that is responsible.