Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gilligan

He's a legitimate Friday night guy. We will have to play well to beat him. They have had a full year to recruit since they announced they were reviving the program, so they're already pretty well stocked with players.

Patrick Kerney

His name was getting announced all the time over the loudspeaker. He was going sideline to sideline making plays, making vicious hits. Every time I watched the Ravens after that, I couldn't help but watch him.

Jim Gallagher

It in no way signals a change in our very specific direction that we announced in rejecting the Hilton offer.

Dick Anderson

IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers, ... The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.

Farid Ayyar

Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.

Ben Kwong

Interest rate uncertainty and the fact that major blue chips have already announced results force a new correction on the market.

Brian Goodstadt

I guess there were a couple days when Melissa came out when both of these stocks jumped up a little bit. But then Network Associates announced their poor quarterly results.

Jim Finn

If you consider that PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards put together the best financing approach when they announced their original merger, this sub-optimal approach can only be a ploy to preserve management's self-interest.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Maurice Luque

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

Alex Honnold

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.

Anibal Reluz

It could get better, but all in all, we did good. It's experience and it's the first time. We took care of all the areas we need to take care of.

Michelle Bell

I think the police have better things to do than to drive around looking in people's cars checking if they're wear a seat belt. There are other areas of law enforcement that need to be focused on.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Richard Scrushy

I wouldn't believe anything that man said. This is horrible that there are people who would do something like this to a company.

Mark Hogan

Jac says he'll bring this to everyone first, but we believe we're in the lead.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Jon Huntsman

Just the fact that they have taken a position on it will resonate with many both in state and out,

Geoff Brown

I think we'll feed them and they'll feed us, ... When you can see the neon sign of the bank, the restaurant or whatever, the businesses are there, that's great. It's a great partnership.

Peter Mirsky

I think what they've created is the fastest growing company in the media space focused on interactivity. In a nutshell, you had the Internet bust, valuations go bust, but clearly there is value to the businesses that can be done on the Internet.

Tom Perkins

It gives the city a mechanism to more quickly and more effectively stop businesses that are masquerading as legitimate businesses,

Kim Elliott

It gives businesses guidance on how to take the next steps.

Allen Boyd

Under current law, most Americans can sue their HMO or insurance company if it denies care and a patient dies or is injured as a result. Again, most employees of small businesses already can sue their HMO. Only those employees who work in companies with "self-insured" plans are not able to sue, as these plans operate under the federal Employee Retirement, Insurance, Security Act.

Ross Moore

Rising energy costs aside, the key difference between today and a year ago is the fact that businesses have far more confidence in future economic conditions, and this gives executives comfort when signing new leases.

Jane Jankowski

Remember that if this is a deal that we end up finalizing, that this company will want to maximize the use of the Toll Road. They will be eager to have local businesses involved.

Tom Watson

Recycling can be expensive for small businesses. There are usually ways they can do it, but for some businesses it's unrealistic.

Mark Kalwinski

Our quality of life is taking a beating. We're going to lose people and lose businesses if we don't work on improving the area.

Bill Giles

Jordan probably hasn't scored 19 points in all his games combined this season. He did a good job tonight.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan's confidence in the predictive value of gold (as an inflation indicator) might be high enough that, when combined with other critical predictors . . . could push Greenspan to either hawkish words or action,

Trilby Lundberg

I think it's over. The slightly higher crude oil prices combined with a recovery in gasoline demand is ending the retail gasoline price crash.

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.

Paula Radcliffe

I am excited about the announcement. It is a big step forward for the sport, the events and the athletes, that there has been this united stand from some of the major marathons. The results can be only positive and having experience of three of the events involved, I am convinced that their combined expertise will help the sport immensely.

Oscar Diaz

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT. Instead of requiring clinicians to navigate in and out of applications to find relevant patient data, our combined platform enables clinicians to sign in once, select a patient once and have the patient's aggregated data presented to them automatically.

Oscar Diaz

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT.

Matt Blamey

His leadership, combined with our all-senior defense, will make it much tougher to score on South Lakes this season.

Steven Wood

Importantly for the Fed, the pace of real consumer spending slowed in March, and combined with early forecasts for lower vehicle and retail sales for April, suggests there is some scope for slower growth in the second quarter,

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Bob Wood

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

Tom Ryan

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

David Campbell

We are extremely excited about the early work on this next generation of search technology. Instead of having to waste time searching for news and other important information on the Internet, our customized SIMS portals search and retrieve exactly the information you and/or your company are interested in.

Polk Laffoon

We are exploring strategic options for the whole company and we have no interest in selling individual newspapers or groups of newspapers.

Mark Swartzberg

I think we see the power of some of the decisions they've made to be a total liquid-refreshment company,

Elizabeth Mackay

I would say start with some of the core holdings in technology. I think the technology stocks that will do well are the ones that haven't disappointed with earnings.

Rick Miller

It combines flexibility, strength and endurance, cardiovascular and core all in one. If you swing it 10 to 15 times, your heart rate will elevate quicker than typical weight and cardiovascular training.

Ron Jirsa

I thought Corey Rouse was great down the stretch and really looked good.

Stephen Graham Jones

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.

Dwight Davis

Interestingly, it sort of raises some of the issues about Microsoft bundling features into the operating system, which of course has been core to the whole antitrust issue.

Mark DiCamillo

Clearly, he's in a vulnerable category. His core is sticking with him -- and just about everyone else isn't.

Dan Levitan

I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

Scott Linehan

I knew Corey there. He started 64 games there during four years. He's one of those guys that doesn't come off the field.

Mike Morse

I'm only eight pounds heavier, but I'm much stronger. I can rotate so much better. We worked a lot on the core muscles.

Ricky Hatton

I have been very pleased with Dennis Hobson, ... We spoke to many people about the prospect of working with them and Dennis delivered. He put his money where his mouth is and delivered the fight.

Warren Spector

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Phil English

Clearly, NAFTA has never delivered on its promises, ... We need to redesign NAFTA so it's not a race to the bottom.

George Robertson

The world is watching and the politicians know they have an obligation that they must fulfil. NATO has delivered -- it is now up to the parliamentarians to deliver again.

David Seibert

A lot of our supplies went to the police department because a lot of those officers lost everything they had. We delivered a lot of uniforms to those officers.

Tim Ghriskey

Its valuation means it's priced for perfection and perfection was not delivered this quarter.

Paul House

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Mike Reed

We approached this as a must-win game because it solidifies our fifth seed in districts, and kept us in the second-half race if somehow God delivered some miracle and Halifax lost.

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Randy Sharp

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

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Oliver Friedrichs

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

Joe Phillips

This has left us with a serious financial burden.

Brock Kreitzburg

The Home Depot has provided me with the financial support and flexibility to work and maintain a job while pursuing my Olympic dream. I would not be an Olympian if it weren't for The Home Depot.

Timothy Adams

This is just yet another step on the road to Iraq's normalization with the global financial community. We see this as solid forward progress.

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.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Eric Davis

We've got to think about everything possible that there is to think about. We have got to turn over every stone, and look into the future to find out what's waiting for us. What can physics do ... where should physics be going?

Tom Lemming

I think Urban Meyer has a future Heisman Trophy candidate, a guy who's going to lead them to a national championship.

Craig Patrick

He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.

Michael Walker

He had a reputation as a very severe disciplinarian, but he hasn't lived up to this. He has been listening a lot and thinking about the future of the Church. It has been a good start.

Rafael Benitez

He is a good player and a nice lad, but only he can talk about his future because I only prefer to talk about our own future,

Leon Kass

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

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

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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.

Mary Madden

These sites have been able to respond to more specialized interests, and you'll see a lot more of that specialization and innovation happening.

Burton Richter

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

Tony Kushner

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

Dana McClintock

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts." ()

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

Dick Costolo

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Shawcross

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

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.

Fred Delk

When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Manny Acta

I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.

Umberto Guidoni

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Voltaire

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Trevor Brooking

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Bill Bradley

In 30 seconds you can say a lot,

Scott Wilson

In the first and third we were making the shots. There wasn't anything different in the second and fourth. We were getting the same looks, they just weren't going in.

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.

Herman Edwards

because it kind of sets up what you want to do on second down.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Romola Garai

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Roger Kahn

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.