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.

E. O. Wilson

We'll have a variety of family shows, concerts, motor sports, wrestling and speakers series. I have some major -- and I mean major -- concerts that will be announced in the coming months.

Don Mitchell

Last year we focused on placing one or more of our flagship products at the top semiconductor manufacturers in the world as ranked by spending. Capacity expansion plans announced by several of these customers are contributing to our more optimistic outlook, and we are also experiencing increasing demand for our legacy products.

Ramon Llamas

Last year, quarterly mobile phone shipments didn't reach 200 million units until the end of the fourth quarter when vendors were keeping the channels' shelves stocked for the holiday rush. As vendors announced new products earlier this year and accelerated their time to market, we've already reached this milestone.

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.

Greg Chappell

We are trying to look at each game as a stepping stone in our journey towards the World Cup. We are trying to take positives from each game in the areas we need to improve from that game.

Jim Hall

We think it's incumbent on airports that don't have the room for these safety areas to at least put in one of these systems.

Chris Gratton

We just let down in all areas -- power play and penalty kill -- and it cost us. It was embarrassing for everybody. We were embarrassed to play like that in front of our fans. They've supported us all year. We had a pretty good crowd tonight and to come out like that is extremely disappointing.

David Gudgel

You have people who are considering moving to town and they go to the best residential areas and say, 'Is this how they take care of their streets and gutters?'

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.'

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.

Larry Leake

Do you understand it may be difficult to believe.

Stephanie Brown

Do you think the other towns are going to believe an opinion issued by our attorney? Don't you think they'd prefer to seek an opinion from their own attorneys?

Christine Anderson

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.

Robert Pitts

Do you really believe that racial and denominational reconciliation are possible, ... I do. That's why I'm part of Mission Mississippi Delta.

Gerhard Schroeder

Do you honestly believe that my party will enter talks with Mrs. Merkel if she says that she wants to become chancellor?

Daniel Vaught

Demand related to inflation and safe-haven fears has been driving gold. I particularly believe numerous gold traders are watching the Iranian situation with great interest, since it has both inflationary and safe haven implications.

Chris Whitmore

Dell's model is designed to weather slowdowns, but we believe HP remains at risk,

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.

John Biddle

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

Daniel Lee

After examining the growth of the market and the status of the competition, we've decided to build a facility that is significant in both scope and quality. We intend to lead the currently underserved downtown gaming and entertainment market and today's announcement reflects that commitment.

Bob Horen

After evaluating Michelle today, the monitoring committee felt very strongly that she is more than ready to compete at the Olympics. Both her short program and free skate were very solid, and she showed us that her levels and jumps are ready for international competition.

Ray Boulger

The most important requirement is to have enough income to support both mortgages. The decision then is whether to raise all your money on the main residence, or to split it.

Kevin McCarthy

Most accountants will tell you the majority of small businesses run as an S Corporation.

Lamar S. Smith

New federal criminal penalties are needed to deter and punish these dishonest individuals and businesses and to put them out of business permanently.

Michael Shnayerson

For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up of generally smaller businesses than fashion. The human losses were more quickly noticed.

Stephen Bollenbach

One of their fundamental strategies was the same as ours - to move into businesses that were fee-driven and not so capital-intensive, and that is managing hotels instead of owning them.

Steve Mason

If they don't, then the businesses will locate wherever they want to locate -- that's the irony.

Gayle Korczyk

She has people calling already wanting to rent because there were a lot of things to see and do there before the hurricane hit. It was a tourist destination for many people. The people there are trying to restore those businesses on the bay.

Mike Malone

Generally speaking, I don't see us losing jobs. I don't see us having a hard time retaining jobs. Matter of fact, I see businesses expanding all the time.

Michael Schroeder

I think Disney is realizing that some of their businesses are under-performing and are not going to be a component of their long-term revenue or profit-stream.

George O'Connor

Steve has a good reputation for turning businesses around and creating value for shareholders. His short tenure is surprising and cannot bode well for the share price in the short term.

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.

Robert Morse

That's my money they're giving away -- company assets,

David Mackenzie

That's just the name of the company of our unit nurse in the English scenes of the shoot.

Ed Cogswell

That's mainly an instance in which the telephone company hooked us up to the wrong number or a clerical error here gives us the wrong number,

Joe Ridout

That often goes a long way toward that company lending a sympathetic ear.

Mikko Hypponen

A large company would not want somebody entering their premises with an infected phone because they could easily infect the entire company's phones.

Martin Sullivan

AIG today is a better company for all that we have been through.

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.

Patrick Fearon

The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index reflects a stable and modest inflation rate. That would support the idea that the Fed can stop raising rates soon.

Robert Crawley

That's a welcome sight, job creation in the area's core business.

John Marks

I was really happy because it showed we have some real hard core hockey fans in Greenville. If we have to come back and play on Wednesday, I hope even more people will come out.

Mark Mersel

Marcus would love to come back. He loves the coaches. He thinks they have a great core of players, of which he is one. They have a great future. But our position is he receives fair compensation, especially as he gets more reps on defense.

Dick Durbin

I wonder, where are you? ... All of us are trying to get down to, what are your core values?

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.

Shannon Cuesta

There were some financial classes, mostly budgeting, learn how manage our money so we can keep our house.

Henry Hughes

The remaining issue in Reno is financial. Reno needs to show financial stability.

Martin Gruenberg

This legislation is good for depositors, the financial services industry, and the safety and soundness of the deposit insurance system.

David Dreman

There's a lot of nervousness with what interest rates are doing, ... Financial stocks are up 3 percent one day and down 3 percent the next.

Jackie Johnson

It's a tremendous financial leap for a historically under-funded non-profit.

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.

Tony Blair

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

Tony Blair

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase

Tony Blair

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

Tony Blair

We know the problems.... and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will

Simone Weil

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Richard Branson

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

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.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Edwards Deming

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.

Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

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.

Douglas Adams

The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

Donald Evans

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

Donald Judd

It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

Donald Judd

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

Donald Hall

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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.

Joey Harrington

I can see where this is going. Let's back off a second on taking shots down the field. When shots are available. Remember, this is still the same offense.

Dontez Sanders

I just wanted to see what was the problem. Because the first half, it wasn't that bad. The second half, we just didn't play as well as a group.

Bob Marinelli

After that second goal, we had to take some chances.

Stephanie Graham

It took us a while to get her timing. You could see the team was working it out, and the second time up they were a lot more confident.

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.

Bob Dylan

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Bobby Fischer

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.