Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Taylor

Kevin had so many friends. Businesses and individuals have really stepped up to the plate for this project.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

John Jones

Just like so many tax laws, I think businesses are frequently unaware of these very valuable credits.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Rob Robinson

There are a lot of small businesses who are having a tough time making it through the first quarter of the year.

Kenneth Chenault

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

Kenneth Chenault

Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Linda Eder

It gave new meaning to the word captive audience.

Amy Kudwa

We have to be conscious of the fact that it's a captive audience. There are going to be children. There are going to be customers with sensitivities to violence and strong material.

Anne Angelelli

I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.

Tim Smith

In the school system, we will always have a captive audience.

Mark Smith

It sounds like they've got a captive audience; they're not going to lose any money. What's wrong with that?

Colleen Laukka

It takes the strength of a Greek god to untangle yourself from the twisted sheets of slumber and throw back the blankets of darkness that have held you captive for so long.

Leo Venezuela

It's good in a sense that it diversifies revenue sources so they are not held captive by any one market.

Joni Mitchell

And the seasons, they go round and round,/ And the painted ponies go up and down./ We're captive on the carousel of time.

Chandra Bhushan

Since all limestone mines are captive mines of cement plants and mining regulations are poor, cement industry is not investing in mine management.

Ken Cohen

I would say that profitability did contract in 2005 as a result of increased competition. Many shops are working for less money but making up for it on volume and hopefully that is a trend that won't continue.

Tim Maluga

Kate wanted a higher level of competition, which I was totally understandable. Also, American University is in D.C. and has a much higher ratio of international students.

Bruce Shumaker

I think it'll be a good look for everybody in the state and very good competition. There's some very good competition.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Marcia Gay Harden

I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.

William Carey

It can't do any harm. Any form of competition will even the market out. It might lower prices.

Calvin Ayre

I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is a good thing for the players,

Brian O'Connor

He wants the competition, he wants the best. He wants to play big-time football. He's maybe just a little too small, a little too slow. But I think he'll contribute, maybe on special teams as a freshman. If he makes it, he'll make it by out-working everybody.

Nick Saban

Gus is going to make us a better team at the quarterback position. His knowledge and experience that comes with being a veteran will help the development of some of our younger players. In addition, he is familiar with our system and he'll create competition at the position.

Robin Urbanski

Right now, the air-to-ground solution is much more economical to us.

Gilbert Brown

In my reality space, nuclear energy is not only a safe way, but an environmentally safe, sound and economical way to make electricity, ... Most people don't have a quality of life a tenth of what we have.

Nikola Tesla

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Angela Brown

Some students see that as an economical way to stay in the residence halls,

Donnie Young

When I started out we used to flood this whole plain. We're gonna reach the point where it will no longer be economical to pump water. We may already be there today.

Vaclav Havel

Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,

Mike Rodriguez

We don't feel that's effective, economical or practical.

Matt Mathes

I can understand why they do it. It's a very economical and efficient way to operate.

Brent Newman

Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.

Teri Hatcher

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.

Nancy Karl

He was about 95 percent finished when he died,

Casey Schweitzer

He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He thought he could place.

Tom Renney

He's a smart enough kid. Obviously, he finished up when maybe he shouldn't have.

Paul Nicholls

He's just got in there. He finished third up at Perth at the end of a long season on his last start and he might just need this.

Will Brown

I thought Hartford finished strong in the regular season. I thought Larry did a good job.

Willie Roaf

I thought about (retiring). I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped, too.

Casey Mears

I thought about going with Newman, but Elliott Sadler (who finished fourth) gave me such a good shove, I had to stay with him.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Jim Amoss

His view prevailed. The goods went back to the shelves and on they drove, empty-handed.

James O'Shaughnessy

Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.

Mike May

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

Robert Novak

Aha! We were right: They have been hiding the real goods on us?

John Wilson

You could see he still had some goods left. I hope I can still do that when I'm his age.

Joseph Tan

It should not be introduced at high levels, where it will shock the economy. Instead, the GST should be gradually eased in and the list of taxable goods expanded over time.

Bryan Whitman

It's our practice to pay our bills, ... goods and services previously rendered.

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.

Al Groh

I think it's been a positive spring for Chris, mostly because he's had an increased opportunity to demonstrate his skills now that he's taking the majority of the turns.

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.

James Guthrie

The purpose of this ordinance is to increase certification pay.

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,

John Battelle

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.

Spike Lee

The film and TV industries are being used as a scapegoat for what has happened.

Dawn Keezer

The film industry is one of the most resilient industries ever.

Noam Chomsky

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Chris Shipley

It takes time for old industries to reinvent themselves. I think we are seeing that in the music industry.

Kelly Quinn

These are the industries that are time-and location-sensitive.

Chad Hurley

The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.

J. Paul Getty

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Jerry Costello

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

Brandon Low

It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.

James Hong

He's a very intense guy. He needs to be working on something all the time.

M. Wolfe

I think it's going to have even more intense scrutiny than usual from markets.

Theda Jackson

What we are talking about is really intensely elevating it with the 'My Beach' message.

Chris Kennedy

It got pretty intense there. It started getting a little heated.

Dan Phillips

I was kind of joking around with it. I was saying, 'We should be intense runners and shave our legs.' We thought it would be funny. I was the first one to take a swipe.

Yannick Noah

He has just lived through the most intense moments of his life. He is still away in his cosmos.

Sam Altman

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Zoe Kazan

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

James McCartney

I always feel honored to meet people who ever met my mum. It means a lot to me.

Andrew Strauss

He is very laid-back person, but there is a steely side to him and that means he has the respect of the players

Dani Shapiro

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Larry Mize

He's a stud. But really, it means a lot to me that he'd do that.

Sam Altman

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand.

Lawrence Lessig

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Emanuel Celler

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Albert Lin

They've got about six months before they won't have the monopoly position on EV-DO,

David Harvey

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

Rupert Murdoch

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Steve Ballmer

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Ben Williams

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

Ron Otto

He could be a monster. He's a powerful, powerful pup.

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.

Jorge Ramos

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

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.

Amy Smith

I was without power for six days, so I thought I would get a little break. I was really surprised at how much more I'm paying.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

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.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Andrew Logan

If prices keep going up quickly, you?re going to see a real shock to the economy.

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.

Adi Godrej

You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

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.

Harry Wilson

Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.

Paul Samuelson

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Julie Bowen

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Robert A. Heinlein

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

Jason O'Mara

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

Helen Gurley Brown

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

Eric Hobsbawm

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

P. D. James

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Benjamin Graham

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Joel Fuhrman

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Gina Laughlin

A lease rejection does not signal any type of reduced operation.

Terri Jacobs

The idea is for the victim to only have to tell their story once to reduce the trauma.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Judd Gregg

This is the only vote you will have to reduce the deficit.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Agin Muhammad

I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.

Gordon Johndroe

This is not a new concern, but it is one we take seriously. We are working to reduce our vulnerability to this threat.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

Joel Madden

We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Rick Warren

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.