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.

A.J. Ellison

As soon as they announced it, I knew I broke the record. My goal at the time was 'I'm going to win this race,' the record was icing on the cake.

Kevin Rollins

We've not announced anything. We're always open, we're always looking.

Steve Ballmer

We're very confident about our growth outlook -- so confident that we announced today we're accelerating our stock-buyback plans,

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.

Butch Loper

And we haven't gotten to the heavily devastated areas yet.

Jack Kelly

Drought continues to be the major concern for many areas of the country. Areas of eastern Georgia, the western Carolinas, and the Florida peninsula are entering their fourth year of drought.

Eric Hausler

Early estimates that casinos could open within a few days are overly optimistic, and, at the least, we expect severe business disruption from the devastated areas for the next several months even if some of the casinos can get up and running over the near term.

Jeffrey Koplan

We have demonstrated that prevention works and deserves support, ... Nevertheless, as in most areas of public health, support for prevention is frequently more rhetorical than substantive.

Jeffrey Smith

We like to go to areas that are not typical of American travel, but we do like to find other choirs and have international exchanges with them.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

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.

Bill Daly

No promises, but I do believe that, yes.

Hilary Clinton

No, sir, ... I don't believe she gave me this tie.

Abbas Zaidi

After the England tour we believe that visiting teams should no longer have apprehensions about playing in Karachi or any other venue.

Sean Taylor

After the East Moline game, I really believe these guys know they can find a way to win. They never believe they're out of it.

Ralph Goodale

After reviewing the responses, I do not believe it would be appropriate to bring forward guidelines on such an important issue in this environment, where it runs the risk of being politicized,

Pete Owens

After reviewing the complaint, we believe the claims are without merit. Once facts are known in the case, we believe the lawsuit will be dismissed.

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.

Wally Walker

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

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.

John Bolton

I've been an executive branch official my entire public career and, for both constitutional and historical reasons, the executive branch appropriately has typically opposed automatic, non-discretionary directions from all of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen. That's our position. I support it emphatically.

Jared Harris

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and doing independent movies and off-Broadway theater. I loved it, I had a really good time doing that, and I worked on a lot of projects that are very dear to my heart, both plays and films.

Tom Brookens

I've always appreciated that. But frankly, I thought it wouldn't be long before I was playing for him and we'd both be in Detroit. Then the Sparky (Anderson) thing happened, and Jim kind of got lost in the shuffle.

Bobby Bowden

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

Greg Sterling

Seventy-one percent of small businesses say they'd rather have phone leads than clicks.

Edward Corrado

Certain applications are too big to write quickly. In other cases, businesses will not readily switch to another application to run on Linux if they are happy with the current software's performance.

Carole Theriault

Businesses and individuals without computer protection in place are living in cloud-cuckoo-land. These worms can wreak havoc on a network but are easily controlled if an effective security policy is in place.

Christy Fusco

Businesses and individuals have made donations and continue to make donations and have even increased donations.

Shara Evans

Businesses and consumers are two different groups. I'd be very upset if people started to treat my business as a residential customer.

Lonnie Gaylor

Businesses also have the opportunity to critique the student, as well as the program. This allows us to know where changes or improvements need to be made.

Matthew Josefowicz

Because they have grown through acquisition, many insurance companies run their various lines as independent businesses. Because there were systems in place that worked when businesses were acquired, there really was no immediate motivation to change.

Mary Porter

Because small businesses are so diverse, it isn't possible for vendors and service providers to effectively reach all vertical markets with specialized programs.

Chris Walsh

Because participation in the forum can serve as a springboard to take their businesses to the next level, the excitement was high leading into the presentations.

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.

Nicole Belt

There was a lot of pent-up energy and a lot of pass holders were eager to get out, combined with holiday crowds.

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.

Cindy Shaw

This is not a company that's on the ropes, but I think it's struggling to maintain the growth targets it has set for itself.

James Ray

this is such a innovative product that, when we are successful with the marketing program, this could propel the company to new heights in sales and profitability.

Cindy Shaw

The U.S. share loss is consistent with our view the company is losing share in its established markets, which we consider an ominous trend.

Carol Bartz

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

Bill Gates

The whole idea of the H1-B thing is don't let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn't make sense. You can't imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, 'Let's have this engineering group and staff it.' You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in.

Max Baucus

The whole country is trying to figure out what should be done about record high gasoline prices at a time of record oil company profits. It's relevant to know what the real financial picture is for this industry, because the financial picture for American consumers is pretty bleak.

Jim Albaugh

The whole company is firing on all cylinders.

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.

Gary Kessler

Honda's global success is directly related to our core philosophy of delivering the highest possible value to our customers through quality products and customer service. Today we acknowledge select suppliers who share in our philosophy and thank them for their dedication to American Honda's quality commitment.

Martin Cruz Smith

'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.'

Warren Lovely

Housing ... is an undeniable core inflation hot spot.

Renee James

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

Matthew Szulik

It is at Red Hat's very core to help unlock the power of open source and open communities.

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.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

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.

Vinnie Mehta

For instance many type the IT-enabled workers or back office workers (like medical transcription workers) need not work out of an old fashioned office anymore. Similarly many financial and marketing sector professionals need to be one the move always.

Larry Haverty

It's the wrong time to do anything that's tax inefficient and (that could) subject owners to any unnecessary financial risks.

Mary Adams

It's not too exciting, plain vanilla, with good companies, good financial qualities. That gives you a core.

Jack Kyser

It's the economy's fuel. If this is long-lived, then you're going to start seeing some significant impacts, and you'll see the financial health of a lot of firms start to be threatened.

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.

Ashton Whidden

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Alexander Pope

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Desmond Tutu

The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions

Clarence Darrow

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Ambrose Bierce

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Andre Breton

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

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.

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

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.

Christine Lagarde

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

Peter Drucker

How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?

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.

Bernie Sanders

Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.

Bernie Sanders

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Stephen Jay Gould

Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Stephen Jay Gould

The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

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.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Andrew Griffin

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

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

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.

P. James

We really put it together in the second half.

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.

Andrew Belsky

We were able to come up on the second day, and we got 'em.

Larry Brown

When it happens, it happens. It's the second day, so I don't think it's critical.

Holly Valance

The Neighbours cast is like a second family.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

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.

Susan B. Anthony

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.