Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

Clive Woodward

I've announced a strong team with over 300 caps between them,

Richard Hills

Teams had started to work him out, packing the outside when he had the ball, so we played him at Gloucester last week after naming Brian Lima and we announced Lima would play in this game. It messed up defensive plans.

Ken Bacon

There will likely to be a Reserve call-up. The details aren't ready to be announced at this stage.

Ida Chong

This is a new program that we announced earlier this year. We asked communities to submit their applications, and of course, we were oversubscribed.

David Harris

Tuesday's audience clapped and cheered when we announced it.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Many companies have announced their plans to increase investments.

James Gray

Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

Jimmy Carter

Obviously, I'm very grateful to the Nobel committee for choosing me. I think they've announced very clearly that the work of the Carter Center has been a wonderful contribution to the world for the last 20 years.

Chad Anderson

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

Achim Steiner

We are talking about a network of marine protected areas that is defined from both an ecological and eco-system perspective as well as from the perspective of the users.

Anja Beer

There are no areas where no NGOs are going but there are vast areas where very few NGOs are going.

Maggie Lynch

We have just completed a system safety audit. We are looking at all aspects of the operation and working to make improvements in the areas where we identify a need.

Dan Webster

You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

Wilson Nolan

There are other areas that would be more interested in having the project and are more interested in industrial development in general.

Colin Campbell

Obviously there is leeway within the rules and it's up to the officials' judgment, but the key areas are in front of the net and in the corners.

Maureen Hall

Oberon is the coach of the team. I'm just facilitating a process. We felt that the team had some fundamental weaknesses in key areas and we felt that Oberon, even at her stage, has something to contribute. So we felt that it was better we register her as a player so she can perform a dual role.

Kip Greenhill

Right now it is our plan to have four subject areas integrated -- math, science, English and social studies.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Steven Fortuna

Dell has stated that a focus for them has been to gain share in Europe vs. HP, particularly in servers. We believe that Dell is indeed making progress to close the gap and Dell's declining tax rate implies improving operational profitability in the region.

Michael Ryan

Delays have been unfortunate. However we understand that they are typical for a project of this scope. We believe that they will be resolved in a timely manner.

Cliff Stearns

DeLay has a lot of power, ... I always believe power should be diffused.

Lindsay Davenport

Definitely, when they said . . . this is my 15th US Open, it makes you think. I can't believe -- I don't think I can count all 15. No, there's no question I'm one of the veterans on tour. I like to think I'm still in my 20s, which I am. I'm not quite over the hill yet.

MaChelle Joseph

Definitely, we're concerned about it. We really believe we're just right there with anybody. We can't sit around and feel sorry for ourselves. We've got North Carolina next.

Milos Zeman

Deep in my heart, I still believe that the democratization of Russia and the democratization of Ukraine will proceed.

E. O. Wilson

Deep down in our hearts we have to believe we can win this game. That has to change sometime.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Kevin Cooney

Storey pitched great. He dominated the game and was very effective. He handled both the left-handers and right-handers really well.

Philip Hughes

Something like this has never been seen here in Europe before. There is a wow! factor both visually and from the temperature change.

Nick Burgess

Some schools are three or four deep in the 103-pound weight class. We haven't had one for two years now. On the other side of the spectrum we're also looking for a heavyweight. We need people on both ends of the spectrum.

Dan Savage

So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, ... Boys weren't supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses.

John Mackey

Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

Brian O'Neil

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway),

Harry Pachon

That doesn't surprise me. These are businesses catering to the new ethnic enclaves.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.

Edmund Phelps

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

Jim Graham

Many farms and agricultural businesses are a total loss,

Don Davis

Locating our headquarters close to our businesses in the Midwest will significantly enhance the lines of communications within the company and increase the overall effectiveness of our operations.

Richard Rosen

Local search listings typically rely on geography when, in fact, there are several other factors that influence whether or not a particular merchant meets a consumer's criteria. If a consumer searches for a kitchen contractor in LA, he'll have to sort through hundreds of listings. But most of them won't be relevant either because they don't do the kind of work he's looking for or they're not seeking new clients at that moment. Our goal is to connect consumers with relevant businesses that want phone leads. Our refined search results will drive more targeted leads to merchants, who then provide new revenue for Internet publishers.

Ken Oplinger

It is clear to us that China is making huge strides to become the dominant economy in the Pacific Rim, and we thought this trip would be a good opportunity for Whatcom County businesses to network with similar Chinese companies.

Alan Ackerman

One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to get the market going.

Jorge Sampaio

combined the public exposure it received from its musical success with the protection of humanitarian causes.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Patrick Casselman

The earnings evolution is definitely slowing in Europe. Combined with rising interest rates and an excellent performance over the last few months, we can expect the market to take a pause.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Carol Bartz

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

Howard Mills

AIG has today acknowledged that the company over a period of years intentionally misled investors, regulators and policyholders about the company's financial condition and operations.

Alexander Payne

You would own the negative after seven years. The company would actually own the film. It's kind of a financial and moral thing about owning your own creative work.

Ray Liberatore

You wouldn't manage the same thing for another company because that would cannibalize your own product.

Jules Shear

You spend so much time trying to get things right, and all of a sudden the record company has changed, your manager is changed, everything.

Tom Russell

Your medical history is scrutinized to get a policy. When you do apply, you give the right for the insurance company to report their findings to the Medical Insurance Board. If you are turned down, it will show up.

Mike Hanson

You're going to have the same company with the same people you have today. There will be no negative impacts on our employees.

David Thornton

Corey Simon can help us out a lot. He's a veteran to provide leadership and a big man who can plug things up in the middle, ... He'll help with the run defense and put pressure on the quarterback.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Jeffrey Lacker

On the one hand we've got some good core numbers in the last few months, but on the other hand, we're facing the prospect now of the possibility of the energy price surge passing into core prices, and we don't want to see that.

Richard Butler

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

Larry Gerston

It fits in with the values of his core constituency. It offers an opportunity for those people who had been with him in the past to be with him now.

Jon Langenfeld

While core trends were solid, weaker revenue trends, particularly in logistics, prevented an in-line quarter.

Larry Miller

Wendy's has become a 'Pandora's Box' of shareholder value. We think this could ultimately result in deeper and quicker cost cuts at the core Wendy's brand.

Allard Baird

We had a lot of discussion on our young core group and guys that will need more time in the Minors and guys that we have an interest in pursuing as free agents.

Chase Carey

It doesn't make sense to have a third party providing something core to our experience,

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Glenn Tilton

The Plan of Reorganization reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built,

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Cindy Mydland

It's a big price tag and it's a big financial commitment.

Linda Tripp

It was a moral victory. It was not a financial victory.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Richard Branson

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Robert A. Heinlein

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

Sunita Narain

The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

Story Musgrave

I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

Steve Irwin

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Steve Case

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Michael Dell

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Michael Dell

Collaboration equals innovation.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Craig Raine

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Craig McDonald

Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

Daniel Pipes

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

Daniel Boone

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Cynthia Kenyon

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Paul Stone

If I had to have a second daddy, it would be him.

Troy Matteson

It's tremendous. Winning is great. The second one reinforces the first one and makes you feel like you kind of belong.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Vincent Schiavelli

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Matt Carter

We were a little lackadaisical in the first quarter. We didn't have a lot of movement. In the second half, I thought we were more focused.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Brigham Young

Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

Brendan Gleeson

Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right for people to emerge from the easy cynicism and try to get back to a place where we can actually believe in people and trust people to have proper motivations.