Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Rig Veda

Knowledge makes capable of earning knowledge. It inspires us to perform actions and as a result one acquires desired wealth.

Bryan Colangelo

Joe Johnson made us aware of his personal desires, which just didn't fit our model of building a team. We're sorry to see Joe leave and we wish him nothing but the best in Atlanta. Despite losing Joe, we are pleased that we have acquired a young, talented player in Boris Diaw, two first round draft picks and additional flexibility to keep our building process moving forward.

Philip Wohl

It almost looks like Global Crossing is trying to acquire companies that are still out there, ... I don't see how this makes them into an instant competitor to the big guys. They may be taking on more than they can chew at this point.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

Niklas Zennstroem

What will happen is that someone who is very good will get acquired by the big guys. Microsoft is very serious about gaining a larger slice of the Internet phone market.

Juliene Berk

Habits the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Juliene Berk

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Jim Tracy

His record wasn't all that impressive, but I've seen this guy do very well at times. And I think the opportunity to acquire somebody in the Rule 5 draft ... it's not all that often you get somebody whose resume from the previous year shows 141 innings.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Alec Young

Just when you think you're almost out of the woods, Wall Street has a way of changing the subject. The focus now is, how much will the economy slow and how much of a negative effect will that have on earnings.

Jake Delhomme

Just talking to some of those guys, you could almost kind of see hurt in their eyes because it's been a long, long year for them. We have no idea what they've had to go through.

Willie Randolph

Jose's going to get his stolen bases. If you get a good fastball to hit, and you're a good fastball hitter, I want you to swing at it, almost like a hit-and-run.

Shani Davis

Joey almost gave me a heart attack when I saw how fast he was going.

Alex Rodriguez

Joe DiMaggio is such an icon, he's almost like a cartoon character, ... I have so much respect for him. When it's all said and done, it's something you can look back on and say that you're proud to be mentioned in the same sentence as Joe.

Jim Maas

John is a fixture around town, everybody knows him. He eats here almost everyday.

Joe Roetheli

Greenies are safe if they are fed properly and chewed by the dog.

Lisa Stevens

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

Don Young

He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight.

Dr. Roberts

He is more awake, and is able to chew and swallow soft foods. But he is still not able to speak with us.

Erik Larsen

I'm an overgrown fan so it's always fun to hang out with my fellow fans and chew the fat. It's even better when there are a lot of top flight creators thrown into the mix.

Mary Roach

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Tucker Martin

It's hard to reach 7 million people. People spend millions of dollars marketing chewing gum. This is about choosing the next chief executive of Virginia. This is important.

Michael Haneke

It's because I am a coward. At school, when there were fights, I'd run away. I have always been scared of physical violence. Perhaps that's the reason. But it also angers me to see gratuitous violence, wrapped up like chewing gum to be consumed. It's irritating; it's cynical.

Najeh Davenport

It's gotten to the point where, you get chewed out by coach Sherman or by your position coach, but at the same time, you go on to the next play. You're taught to put it out of your mind and go to the next play. With this, you have to run and take the play off. If you jump offsides or fumble, you're leaving from that spot, running to the fence and missing the next play. I think it's going to help.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Bernard Golden

Having open source or proprietary companies that refuse to work with one another from a sense of purity is a real disservice to end users.

Alan Levine

Gold Standard was one of the best-led small companies I've ever worked with. Russ Thomas is a visionary.

Roy Schmidt

He knows how to win, is a tremendous competitor and a good leader on the floor. Players seem to rally around him.

Bill Stoneman

He is such a competitor that if he can pitch, he will. But he's ready to go; he wouldn't start if he wasn't healthy.

Brad Jackson

He's a great competitor and loves to play in the tough games. He was big tonight.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a competitor -- that's why he got the start. He'll rebound nicely.

Buck Showalter

He's a tough competitor and doesn't back off.

Jeff Morgan

It is going to be great to have these guys for four years. Trent is a hard-nosed competitor who is really good defensively, and Matt is a versatile player who can shoot the three-pointer and score on the block.

Buddy Carlisle

Lance is a competitor and he can shoot, that's a pretty good combination. Lance is just one of those guys who works hard to reach his goals.

Lindsey Jacobellis

I was disappointed in myself because I am a fierce competitor and I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Douglas Ivester

What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.

Michael Loomis

Kids are crossing everywhere in that parking area. We need to stop the traffic and get safe lines of passage for pedestrians.

Tom Kristensen

I know how many people have been working very hard for this and I would like to thank all of them. Crossing the finish line was a historic moment for the diesel technology.

Keith Bushby

Even when he was crossing deserts, he was thinking about how he was going to do it.

Jeff Copeland

They may be crossing there not just because they can, but to put themselves in a position to prey on them for food.

Bruce Beehler

It really was like crossing some sort of time warp into a place that people hadn't been to.

Shaukat Sultan

This is totally fabricated and there is no question of any Indian soldier crossing the LoC (Line of Control),

James Detorre

They're really crossing their fingers because disposable income is so low.

Scott Buchanan

They're crossing a line for financial gain, and it's our Island heritage that's being sold on the international commodities market.

Jim Lee

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Don Budinger

He's been our consultant, that's public knowledge. People are speculating that he's our prime candidate. Obviously we need a globally competent, experienced leader to navigate the road map. Somebody of his talent obviously would come on to our radar.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Guenter Verheugen

In the new global situation, our strategy is more justified than ever,

Ken Ford

In terms of global warming, in terms of price spikes, this would make us really leading the planet.

Raghuram Rajan

In a globally competitive economy, it is very important you insure the individual, you have a safety net for the individual, because they're at serious risk of losing their job and so on.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

Rich Brooks

I don't know why we have instant replay if we won't at least look at it,

Randy Randolph

If you put in a tree with a 4-inch-diameter trunk, you have an instant tree.

Jessica Lowndes

I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better - it's the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished.

Larry Sabato

In another state, this could be devastating and could mean instant defeat. In New Jersey, it will take more than this.

Bob Barnes

I knew instantly he was the right choice.

Jerry Reinsdorf

The instant the Red Sox won last year, I thought maybe we're next.

Chris Sherman

It will be one device, where we search, do instant messaging and watch TV.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

Mark DiCamillo

I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.

Mark Billingham

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

Russell Ingall

Today doesn't mean much. It's just muscle-flexing day. The real work's still to come and it looks like it will be down to the driver.

Alex Jones

Every time we look, they're killing Jews.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Chet Edwards

taking the most from those who have the least and nothing from those who have the most.

Harrison Ford

It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

Cecilia Johnson

They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.

Scott McGaffic

It wasn't a very pretty sight. But I'm taking it in stride.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Mads Mikkelsen

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.