Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Poole

Our aim is to keep inflation, in general, down. If I had to pick a point, it is to keep these broad measures in a one to two percent range.

Rosette Rugamba

We decided in 2002 to aim to generate $100m in tourism receipts by 2010 by creating high-value and low-environmental impact experiences.

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Walt Drenth

We're very excited to be traveling with the entire team. Right now we want to see everyone compete and have fun and I think as the weather gets better we'll start to aim for national goals.

Ma Jun

What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.

O. Winston

What we aim to do is help you shoot the losers and double down on the winners. If we can help you shoot the bottom ten percent that's holding you back so you can focus on what's important, there's tremendous upside in that.

Michael Howard

What Gordon Brown has done is attempt to sabotage this report before it is even published. We should allow Lord Turner to present his report and then debate his findings in a proper and constructive way and a way that will try to aim for consensus, but that is not Gordon Brown's way of doing things.

Jamil Moledina

Through this inaugural competition, GDC and the CG Society aim to promote the professional development and recognition of the art and artists of games. We are excited to focus on rewarding excellence in original art, since that dovetails with the focus of the GDC to provoke creativity in all elements of game creation.

Hamid Awaluddin

We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Brandi Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

George P. Shultz

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

George W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Frank Shorter

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Ginger Rogers

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

Rick Clausen

I'm going to get a lot of treatment this week, as many times as possible, to get the soreness out.

Don Flanagan

It swelled up pretty good. But we'll let her get treatment on it and see how it goes.

Joe Williams

Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Erma Bombeck

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.