Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Hongzhi

It is forbidden, and these people will be punished according to the law,

Stephen Wren

What is a patent troll? According to some, a patent troll is a firm who licenses patents they do not themselves commercialize. Yet, many of the large firms who are most critical of the practice do it themselves.

Mikel Olaciregui

We make festivals according to the films that are out there now. We've tried to do a balanced selection of interesting films responding to a great variety of tastes.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Nathan Brookwood

In the case of Japan, there was smoke and there was fire, at least according to the FTC there, and we'll see what happens to the Korean one.

Toshihiko Fukui

Interest rates will stay at zero for a while, then move to extremely low levels before being adjusted according to economic conditions.

Philip Larkin

In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the difference they could make / By loving others, but across most it sweeps / As all they might have done had they been loved. / That nothing cures.

James Devlin

In a company of 50,000 employees, it is a great honor to receive this distinction. Five years ago, Waste Management implemented an exciting new customer service program that operates according to the premise that perfect service can be achieved through effective employee education and communication. This initiative is called Service Machine and relies on effective tracking, timely review, analysis and ongoing coaching to ensure that these standards are consistently achieved. This group of men and women consistently lead the way, from financial performance to collection productivity improvements to growing the company's revenue.

John Thune

If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

Dionne Bromfield

I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

Charles Boucher

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

John Berger

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

Michael Vaughan

He just controlled everything in a measured fashion although he obviously had harsh words to say in the sanctuary of the dressing room. His team on the field always appeared to have a huge amount of respect for him.

Russ Sonaty

He likes to be involved although he is over there. They like that he talks to them. It gives them something to work for.

Paula Zahn

He joined the Army and would have gone to the first Gulf War, but it finished before he got there, although he had orders to go, ... He's been in Korea twice and Saudi Arabia and various other places.

Steve Patterson

He is under contract. He has refused to render his services, and so we have not paid him for his services, although we've kept him on his medical insurance.

Steve Cook

Hard work on the training ground paid off tonight, although certain aspects of our play was sloppy. If this was a blip, then it couldn't have come at a better time.

Stephen Richer

Having these three resorts back in business will attract thousands of day trip customers, some of our meetings business, and many tour groups. Although we still will be far short of our previous room inventory and meeting space, we know that the demand to visit our destination is high and that business will take off with the reopening of the Imperial Palace, the Isle of Capri, and the Palace.

Raquel Welch

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

John Day

His work engages viewers with the artist's rare gifts of sensitivity to the human condition and an appealing sense of humor.

Alyn McCauley

I think the lockout hurt a lot, but I think if we get back and give everyone an appealing product, where rules are called, and let the game's talented players play and show off their skills - I think we'll attract more fans than maybe we did before the lockout,

Bob Harlan

I think the fact they were scheduling without knowing if Brett Favre is going to be back, and they still gave us three national games, shows you the Green Bay Packers are still an appealing draw. The ratings were good last year even when we weren't playing well. I think it speaks well for us (considering) where we are. I think it's still a popular franchise and we still get ratings.

Philip Schiller

We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch.

Don Payne

I think that's what makes Florida appealing to him. That that's what they're looking for, and that's what I think he is - a primary back.

James Smith

I'm not sure who they (Health Net) are appealing to in this market. If you are healthy and poor, you don't spend money on health care.

Mark Messier

I never thought about any individual records. Coming back to break any records, especially that record, wasn't all that appealing to me.

Edith Wharton

The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmisible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Joe Nemechek

I was looking to get back to the front on the next (green-flag) run, but the car got loose -- it was a struggle just to maintain our position.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Chris McKay

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing I have three kids to take care of, I want them to have a dad, something I didn't have. I want to be there to support them. My mom was always a single parent raising four kids. I really want to support my mom.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Caroline DeWaal

The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.

Jeff Arnold

The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan.

Laura Powell

The Internet has really revolutionized travel and travel booking. Consumers are now able to find great deals at the last minute a lot easier.

Tomas Flores

Holding the rate in December was just a pause.

Bonnie Henrickson

I think you have to talk about it. I think we should talk about it. We've done enough in November and December and January to put ourselves in a position to talk about it.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We are fully prepared to restrict gas supplies to Ukraine after December 31, if there is no contract.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Doug Short

The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in December and they pushed themselves to get here. We are a young team and it has worked through some tough times, stuck with it and focused on the end-of-the-year goals.

Paul Butler

Donations got off to a really slow start in December and we were really concerned.

David Hahn

We're looking for quality yards that can deliver quality product in time for December (2008), and I think we've got a big obligation to the people of the north to see that take place.

Brian Giorgis

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Jason Willett

Once the new year rolls around, it will sharply increase. We think it has a lot to do with the fact that people are more scattered in December ... it leaves less time for them to volunteer.

Pat O'Connor

Judge O'Flaherty's rulings are putting drunk drivers back out on the street. It's a threat to public safety. It's offensive to law enforcement and prosecutors and it's offensive to the public.

Jack Roush

He's as cold-blooded as any driver I've ever worked with,

David Solin

I think it's just really hangover from that. The issue of U.S. interest rates and where we're going has been a pretty important driver for the dollar.

Robert Burgoyne

I think the Internet is a key driver of world economies,

Gary Brewer

It hadn't been returned, so she went to East St. Louis to look for it on her own. When she found it, she opened the passenger side of the vehicle and was trying to get the keys out of it. The driver panicked and was trying to get away.

Brett Bodine

We made some real significant progress here today. The drivers and teams gave us some positive feedback on what they liked and what they didn't like and that's what this is about; to refine and improve what we have.

Aguri Suzuki

I am grateful that these highly experienced drivers are joining my team.

Mitt Romney

People who represent drunk drivers know that all you have to do is then go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and show a hardship, and you get your license back,

Eric Haxthausen

Our research shows that most drivers of new large pick-ups use them for commuting and personal trips.

Mike Mueller

He's a fairly reclusive fellow, and our interview is pretty fun.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

John Nestor

I think it's fairly well known that the SEC for one is looking at Tyco, and looking at it very hard. When the SEC looks at any company, they are interested in talking to their auditors. And as part of their look they'd naturally be talking to us, and we'd be talking to them.

Jim Magagna

I think that's a fairly reasonable place to be.

Todd Spencer

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

William Ford

If we want to do repairs next summer, we're going to have to get moving fairly quickly,

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor. . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something were fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor . . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something we're fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

David Cummings

He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.

Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Roger Price

In the whole scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal. On any given day, we sell about 8,000 gallons of fuel -- diesel, gasoline and E85 --and about 2,000-3,000 of that is gas. Of that, about 300 gallons is E85. So, it's a lot to me, but probably not a lot to you.

Mike Haley

I swear, if you tell me how you're going to solve these gas prices, I'll vote for you.

Chris Christensen

It can?t be like this forever. Just the other day a gas station opened in the neighborhood. Every day it gets better.

Jerry Lambert

Here you're at the mercy of the gas companies.

Nancy Cartwright

I think its ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic gas

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Alan Peterson

Last month, we handed out 52 gallons of gas and we've handed out 78 gallons this month. We hear about every excuse,

Candace Smith

We think gas prices had something to do with it.

Steve Reynolds

We're on track to record high gas prices this winter,

E. O. Wilson

I think we kind of ran out of gas at the end.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Tim Moe

I think we've improved more than they have. Warroad has a lot of juniors and seniors but our young kids have picked it up.

Russ Biundo

He has improved remarkably. Still, we have a long way to go.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Phil Garner

Their pitching is much improved over last year,

Kiki Vandeweghe

It's well deserved. He's just improved by leaps and bounds. I'm really, really happy... He really works to make his team better.

Robert Broadfoot

It really hasn't improved much in 20 years.

Lini Reading

They're going to be excited. They are a much improved team.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Vijay Jayant

It increase the pie for radio in general.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

David Rose

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Tina Olson

There aren't a lot of obvious places to just go and increase rates.

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Graham Hawkes

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Tibor Kalman

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Bob Dole

I think it's pretty obvious the model for victory is the Ronald Reagan model,

Joe Browne

Other sports have modeled their drug programs after ours, which has been around more than 15 years.

Jessica Hart

If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.

Andres Duany

In every way, this is a model of how things should change.

Tim Sampson

I submit to you that this development is a model for transit-oriented development. This type of development is a type of solution to the regional traffic problem.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

Naohiro Niimura

There's no reason to sell this market. I think there's a sense of needing to punish Iran. We could see $70.

Taylor Swift

There’s something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly that you jump in headfirst without looking.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

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"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Elmore Lockley

Once again, these prices reflect what is going on in the marketplace -- not just here, but it's a trend nationwide.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Ed Wade

I think we need some space at this point,

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Rick James

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Viola Spolin

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

Tom Rogers

The value of stand-alone subscriptions is much more important to us than DirecTV,

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

Christine Callies

We think there's a lot of value in semiconductors.