Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hamish Dodds

Hard Rock Cafe's like-for-like sales continue to improve and this was supported by exceptional performance in the hotel and casino division with revenue continuing to exceed projections. In 2005, we also successfully relocated our New York cafe from 57th Street to our new flagship location at the Paramount Theatre in Times Square. As we look forward to 2006, we will be commemorating our 35th anniversary with a global music celebration. We are also already engaged in a number of exciting new projects, including the opening of Hard Rock Hotel Madrid, the first Hard Rock Hotel in Europe.

Trey Anastasio

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

Kathy Sudeikis

Intergenerational travel is very popular. Many families are using a 70th birthday or a 75th or a 40th wedding anniversary to create memories that are passed down and include three generations.

Matthew Taylor

In this 30th anniversary year of Keep Australia Beautiful, we expect the competition between towns to be stronger than ever. The big challenge for our assessors always is to find a special town that has 'the edge' over the rest.

Mitch Hedberg

I had a job interview at an insurance company once and the lady said "Where do you see yourself in five years?" and i said "Celebrating the fifth year anniversary of you asking me this question

Sue Macy

In the ski jump someone did the math wrong, and for 50 years the wrong person had the bronze medal. It wasn't until 1974 that a bunch of Norwegian historians got together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Winter Games, and one of them looked at the statistics in the ski jump and realized that an American, Anders Haugen, had actually won the bronze medal, and a Norwegian had gone to his grave thinking he had won. But Haugen was still alive--he was 85--and he finally got his bronze medal.

Robert Gottlieb

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

James M. Buchanan

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

Ramani Ayer

In December, we reached a milestone for our company as we celebrated our 10-year anniversary as an independent publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. Over the past decade, our shareholders have been well rewarded with a 16 percent compound annual total return that handily exceeds the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500.

Mark Hansen

It becomes an annual family reunion ... a gathering point for musicians from all over the country.

Mark Davis

This was our second crab feed and we hope to make it an annual event. The funds raised by the music boosters go for new equipment, trips and scholarships.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

Shannon LaRocque

It comes down to liability. Two things have to happen to make this work. One is, Scripps has to have assets to back $100 million. Then, it is possible they are looking to the local governments to help make the annual premiums.

Ted Turner

It is after much deliberation that I have decided not to stand for re-election at the annual meeting. I have enjoyed working with (TW chairman and CEO) Dick Parsons, as well as the other board members and the management team. I wish Dick and the company every success.

Bruce Hertzke

We are extremely proud to receive the Quality Circle Award this year, and particularly proud to be the only manufacturer to receive this award each year for the past decade. We consider the DSI survey to be a critical measurement tool for the quality of our products, our sales and service programs and our manufacturing processes. The survey provides us with an important annual benchmark that shows how our dealer partners perceive the quality of Winnebago Industries products and services.

Stefan Gleason

To get help in coercing thousands of workers into union ranks and to obtain at least $1 million in annual dues revenues, UAW officials sold out the very workers they sought to represent.

Rick Ross

I think it's through the same provider. We (Peninsula College) pay an annual premium for insurance. The moment students sign up to be on a sports team they are automatically covered.

Kerri Coletta

I think that making the benefit concert an annual event would be a superb idea for the future, as it will permanently attach our name to something good.

Ram Kapoor

Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

Geoffrey Rush

I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.

John Adams

It ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, ... with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other ...

Paul Coffey

It's a great tribute to be joining such an elite group of players. I have great memories of my years in Edmonton, and the players who were my teammates. We were a tight bunch, and I'm honored that my contribution to the team will be celebrated in Oilers fashion.

Neil Meron

What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.

Ronald Reagan

Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young.

Lord Mayor

We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.

Karen Hechler

There is some nice history in here. You can see how they celebrated 100 years ago.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

Joyce Brothers

Here we have a man who did all he could for his company and was thrown out. But a dog will repay loyalty with loyalty.

Soichiro Monji

Gold and oil prices have risen to a level most people weren't expecting, supporting related company shares.

Bill Clinton

It won't, in the end, satisfy anyone. It will only compound the horror.

Neil Cornish

All the distance covered by the light in the early universe gets increased by the expansion of the universe. Think of it like compound interest.

Neil Herman

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Robert Blackburn

There's no reason at a time that you're at an emotional low to compound that with false hopes and expectation,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Richard Holbrooke

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.

Richard Hofstadter

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Dawkins

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Richelle Mead

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Richelle Mead

Somehow, Sydney had an internal clock that told her when time was up. I think it was part of her inherent ability to keep track of a hundred things at once. Not me. In these moments, my thoughts were usually focused on getting her shirt off and whether I’d get past the bra this time. So far, I hadn’t.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Nick Holmes

He's over 90 percent on the year. There was not much doubt.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Dave Littlefield

His performance isn't up to what we've seen in the past.

Jessie Reyes

I threw some different wrestlers in there to see how they would compete. I wasn't pleased with our performance. As a team, we need to pick it up.

Bryan Clay

I'm very, very disappointed with my performance here.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Kim Yuna

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

Eric Bana

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

Andy Serkis

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

Judy Nadler

You have to publicly reprimand someone. If there are no consequences, things will not change. This is drive-by ethics.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Warren Buffett

Returns decrease as motion increases.

W. S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ben Kingsley

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Kenneth Fisher

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

James Joyce

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

Louise Brown

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

Seth Tobias

No one was being rewarded for taking risk.

John Buckingham

You ride out the downturn and you're usually rewarded in the end,

Marcia Gay Harden

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Maggie Lynch

It's pretty standard throughout the country. And we don't give them to families, like they do in New York.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Arlen Specter

The standard is to do it right, not to do it fast,

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Jennifer Duffy

They all talked about it. It was a standard part of their pitch.

George Whitehouse

These are standard technologies and can be done securely.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Bobby Labonte

We're going to be like the stock market. We're going to be up and down.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Kevin Buckler

R.J. is better this year than ever. He's the total package.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

James Shuler

It's totally devastating, the way things went down.

Apolo Ohno

It was just total instincts. I just let it go.

Atom Egoyan

It's crazy, it's totally outrageous, it's very upsetting, and I can't understand it,

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.