Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hank McKinnell

Based on today's survey, we see job growth and continued investment, a winning combination at this part of the business cycle.

Victor Vergara

Based on this program and our consistency, our referrals are decreasing considerably. At this point last year, Valor processed 400 referrals and right now we have processed 100.

Istvan Gyulai

Based on this position of the IAAF, we believe that the consequence should be that the medals are taken back,

Lius Pongoh

Based on the tight points, Maria could have stolen the first set should she had a better control on the shuttlecocks.

Samaya Mamedova

Based on the tests undertaken by the World Health Organization, the Health Ministry of Azerbaijan has confirmed the diagnosis of bird flu in the three people concerned.

Jim Holden

Based on the strength of the product we've got there now, we expect to set a full-year record within the Chrysler brands and should gain market share as we go forward, ... It's pretty clear at this point that 1999 calendar year will be a record automotive year in the U.S.

Eric Oliver

Based on the statistics, most of the charges saying that obesity caused various diseases or that obesity caused thousands of deaths were simply not supported.

Steve Ross

Based on the scope and character of the similarities it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious act.

Edward Kennedy

Based on the record available, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that Judge Roberts's view of the rule of law would include as paramount the protection of basic rights,

Mark Donovan

Every major consumer brand and media property is embracing mobile.

Michelle Perry

We're disappointed that the Check Point thing fell apart. They had worldwide sales and distribution in place. They also had a name brand and established customers.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Robert Kiyosaki

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Chuck Wilson

We'll make whatever sacrifices are necessary to build the project while maintaining appropriate learning spaces and quality controls.

John Gardner

Lenox Township has 1,300 homes right now. We think some time in the next 10 years we'll build about 4,000 homes. We should see a 400-home increase in just the next few years.

Wayne Bopp

Lehman has been working to work away from fixed-income and build up the equity business. We're seeing a payoff.

Ron Ence

Last year was our first winning record, and now we are over the hump. Now we can start to compete for a region championship. Now people are going to have to take us seriously. We are trying to get something established here, trying to get things going. Hopefully, we can build a tradition here, and this will only be the beginning.

Mark Bartelstein

Leaving Pittsburgh was very hard, but he felt it was a great opportunity. He's the kind of guy they want to build the program around.

Roberto Denis

Certainly, gas plants cost a lot less money to build than a coal plant.

David Cole

One thing they are better able to do is listen to buyers more accurately, ... If you can design it fast and build it quickly on a flexible production line, your risks of putting it in the market are greatly reduced.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Adolf Hitler

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

Adam Braun

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

Abraham Lincoln

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

Ani Difranco

The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal...

Amy Klobuchar

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

Amy Poehler

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

Allan Bloom

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

David Chamberlain

We've got so much stuff. Everybody's help was overwhelming and it was nice to not have to worry about where we'd get the money to pay for this kind of stuff.

Greg Williams

We're trying to help our shooting percentage - get some shooters in here. To lose by three and shoot around 50 percent from the free-throw line - that's not going to get it.

Barry Hannah

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

Kelly Shackelford

We think the vast majority of people in Texas are with us but that doesn't help if they don't show up.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Vernon Jordan

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

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

Reed Hastings

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

Samuel Alito

I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.

Sydney Schanberg

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

Sydney Brenner

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

Sydney Brenner

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

Suzanne Shaw

I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

Suzanne Shaw

I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be the centre of attention or the class joker instead of knuckling down. Far from the perfect student.

Susan Sontag

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

Scott Westerfeld

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.