Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schmidt

I wouldn't be shocked if someone was interested in acquiring them since there is real tangible value.

Porter Goss

Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,

Bill White

Today, I have talked with the senior FEMA official in the United States and the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. They have committed to review both deadlines for hotel reimbursement based on the hotel population and for acquiring needed apartments based on the supply and demand for apartments in Houston,

Bertrand Russell

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws

Paul Stanley

I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Mark Nelson

There are numerous competitors who could benefit immediately from acquiring Palm. The opportunity to realize these benefits will surely erode over time, as will shareholder value. It is imperative the Board act in a timely and decisive fashion before the opportunity to do so is diminished.

Philip Green

I am delighted to announced that our third year, since acquiring the business in October 2002, has again produced an excellent set of results.

Chanakya

He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.

Sathya Baba

In the matter of acquiring food, different kinds of strength, abilities and skills are used by us but these very same skills are used by animals and birds as well.

Keke Palmer

I would like to do a music person's story, a bio. I've wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I don't want it to always be like, 'I'm singing again in a movie.'

Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Brian Laing

I was just being aggressive and got open shots so I stepped up and made them. We're really doing well and we got another big win against a ranked team.

Chad Pennington

I was looking forward to this game, playing against a defense that gives us different looks and playing more than a couple of series. It was an opportunity that I squandered.

Bill Gibbons

I was looking forward to competing against her for years to come. She really was a rising star.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Jay Mergenthaler

I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and my dad coached her. I started while I was young and I got a lot of good experience playing against top competition from all around the country at the Junior Olympics.

Jake Fisher

Just to be out there and have my name announced to the crowd is a thrill. I'll definitely be back next year and my goal is to win it.

Huseyin Sahin

It can't be known whether the disease is bird flu or not before the test result is announced in Ankara.

Jason Castro

He definitely announced their return to dominance. He's their guy and he showed why. We didn't play poorly, we just got beat.

Chidchai Vanasathidya

He clearly announced that he has withdrawn and will not play any significant role. He has taken leave until a new government forms.

Bruce Buck

Having said that, we announced a significant loss last year and we are going to announce a significant loss today.

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.

Dan Osipow

Lance was pretty definitive when he announced his plans for retirement. But circumstances change. Who knows? I leave that to him. We all know he planned on staying fit.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

David Gergen

I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it.

Jack Osbourne

I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.

Wayne Taylor

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

Alan Lacy

Kevin left the company at my request because I lost confidence in his personal credibility, ... His departure is not related to business performance and does not constitute a change in credit strategy.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart said it closed its worst performing stores because it couldn't maintain inventory once its vendors cut themselves off. Now that the stores are shuttered and inventory is up, Kmart is still doing less business than before. The company is still losing money and market share. I'm not sure the company can get past Christmas.

Gerry Harvey

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

Carl Peterson

I wouldn't be opposed to that. I think it's a terrific 1-2 punch. This business is a business of attrition.

Mick McCarthy

Kelvin has been great and I'm delighted he's proving what a good keeper he is.

Steve Bleasdale

He is young, he wants to improve as a player and we are delighted to have him here.

Mark McGhee

I was delighted with Joe. Physically he is a real presence as a centre-forward. His touch is good and he wins headers. It was a shame we couldn't provide a platform for him to win the game for us.

George Gray

I was delighted to be invited to the Dutch Consulate in Edinburgh to receive their medal from Michael Hughes, the Dutch Consul.

Ken Schanzer

Whatever it is we're paying, ... we're delighted to be in this relationship. We want to keep going forever.

Mike Baker

We are extremely delighted that we are on the eve of a launch that will mark the start of the cornerstone of the space station.

Ian McGeechan

Lawrence is one of the giants of the English and world game and we are, of course, delighted that he is remaining with us for a further 2 years.

Lamine Diack

I am delighted to see such strong interest from so many different parts of the world.

Aguri Suzuki

I am delighted to have signed two drivers with such great experience.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

Tim Walsh

Kevin played his heart out the whole year. He simply did it again. He never gives up. He's a fantastic leader. He's an excellent student. He's No. 2 in his class. Overall, he's just an excellent person.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

Mike Garcia

John is an excellent motivator. He likes to put on what is supposed to be a simple group run and turn it into an adventure.

William Holland

I think it is fair to say that by any standards we had an excellent start to fiscal '06,

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Diana Plutto

He was a great person and an excellent educator.

Bob Jones

has the potential to provide an excellent solution to a very serious need.

Shakira

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.

Peter Scott

He was sold out for the October trip by June.

Vladimir Lenin

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

William Golding

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

Bruce Babbitt

It's going to be a long tough summer, ... There's no relief in sight. We've got September and October to go.

Leon Trotsky

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Leon Trotsky

No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are.

Karen Mills

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

Johnny Damon

This is the playoffs right now. It's amazing. It's here already before October comes.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

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.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

Mark Brooks

I thought Tyler pitched well early. But they just started to get to him in that third inning.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Jay Carlin

In the third quarter, we couldn't put them away.

The Wizard

I'm on my third Mrs. Potts' costume,'' Treglown said.

Manny Legace

I let them back in the third period, ... and that shouldn't happen.

Sean Paul

all done right here in the Third World.

Pete Shelley

They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill,