Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Fabian Nunez

History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discrimination in our state, ... Instead of choosing the way of the future the governor has aligned himself with the enemies of equal rights for all.

Dan Levitan

I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

Martin Jacques

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Tom Wordell

To get a big fire, you need high temperatures, low relative humidity, dry fuels and winds all aligned on the same day. We haven't seen that much this year, yet our overall acreage burned is much higher than in the past.

Jack Messman

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Robert McTeer

I think all the stars are aligned for the economy to pick up, ... It's been growing; it just hasn't been growing fast enough to create new jobs. But I think the tax package, on top of easy money, will probably kick it over.

Ron Ence

I was just hoping to weather the storm. But the planets must be aligned somewhere. When you win and one of your leading scorers doesn't score a point, you just thank your lucky stars.

Jordan Rohan

Unless we hear of some material deviation from the results already shown us -- business conditions are so aligned with expectations that there is no surprise.

Christopher McQuarrie

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart's earnings were lower than a year ago, and the reason why they were lower is because there is a lot of money being invested in infrastructure. But it's going to pay huge dividends in the future, ... Kmart is finally very excellently positioned to turn around and create a very strong place in the sun.

Stephen Pagliuca

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

James Collins

I suspect they'll probably get a kick out of the illusions that can be created to give them a more total immersion experience as part of virtual reality,

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Craig Mattox

It can create a major headache. You can have six or eight people with the same ticket trying to sit in the same seat. At last year's SEC Championship football game, I confiscated around 70-75 counterfeit tickets. I had about 30 with the same seat location.

Bill Vincent

He was able to use his length and create some problems for them in there.

Samuel Berger

He used the most vicious form of nationalism to try to create an ethnic empire in the heart of Europe. He wanted a greater Serbia, and he wound up with a lesser Serbia.

Mark Martin

Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.

Gail Goestenkors

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Rick Soracco

I think in that first quarter we could have been out by a lot more. We missed some easy shots.

Jim Kramer

It can be easy to be not ready to go. We liken it to a game. You have to be up for every game.

Karl Malden

He could handle longtime stars like Joan Blondell and Edward G. Robinson, and he also could handle Steve McQueen. Norman stepped in at the last moment (Sam Peckinpah had been fired after a week's filming), and that's not an easy thing to do.

Gregg Zaun

He didn't have his command, that was pretty much the difference. It's not an easy role.

Marcus Banks

He just told me just run the team, make stuff easy and let's get this victory. I kind of patted him on the butt and told him don't worry about it, we'll go get it for him.

Antonio McDyess

He just made it so easy for me to score. He's such a good passer. I kind of knew where his passes were going to be at any time. Not even looking, I knew where he was going to throw it and when he was going to throw it.

Matt Letourneau

He kept us in a lot of games. It's really easy to do your job when he's back there.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Ernie Koepf

Herring roe is a traditional luxury food for the Japanese, and is usually presented as gifts during their holidays. When their economy went south, the price of roe went with it.

Chris Avery

He's got the formula right. He's entering the market at the right time in terms of European liberalization and during a strong economy and he's entering with the right concept.

Charles Blood

Historically, markets are much more interested in things like how the economy is doing and what interest rate policy is than who is in power.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

David Shambaugh

Economics, finance, foreign affairs, the environment - you name it, they're there.

Pat Gillick

Everybody's looking for pitching and there's not a lot of pitching out on the market. Consequently, it's economics.

Xinyi Lu

This is a very good sign for the economy. It's helpful for the yen.

S. Hughes

The new millennium has not been particularly kind to the New Jersey economy.

Rick Brown

It's great for the economy. I think there will be other tax receipts from goods sold during the holiday to people who are out and about shopping.

Kurt Brunner

The number was good, it's showing there's legs on the industrial side of the economy.

Peter Forsberg

That is a negative statement as far as I am concerned. That puts a negative emphasis on the economy.

Brian Sanderson

That rail line is a vital part of our American economy, and it needs to be in a place where it is not at risk from hurricanes.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

John Thomson

Keeping them off my fastball made my fastball that much better. I think that's the big key for that lineup, because they're such a good fastball-hitting team.

David Bryant

John Henry and I just started paddling as fast as we could towards her,

Marcus Williams

I think it made me grow up a lot faster than I wanted to, but I needed it.

Ryan Lochte

I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks. I'm just going to feed off this the rest of the meet because what I swam tonight was pretty fast for me.

John Whitelavich

He was a linebacker last year and we were looking for a tailback and tried him there. He didn't know the plays very well, but he's learned them now and got faster over the summer. He's a tough runner.

David Bolland

He was a fast little guy and I would be the guy trying to jab him and knock him down.

Dusty Baker

He wanted the victory and knew we needed it. His fastball was moving.

Phil Garner

He did a very nice job. He had a pretty nice fastball and was locating it pretty well, and they just stayed with it all night long. It was kind of an unusually pitched game. You don't see a guy use primarily fastballs. He had a little life on it.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Barclay Tagg

He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.

Jessica Sanders

He really wants to sit down and work with us, ... I think that's so important because we are growing so much.

Danny Clark

He's a smart guy. He's getting better every time he lines up. But he's still got some growing to do, and hopefully we can stunt some of his growth this week.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Bobby Schindler

I think you're seeing the growing support of the pro-life movement.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Scott McClellan

There is a growing majority of nations that recognize Iran's noncompliance must be addressed." ()

Rita Ora

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

Paul Edinger

I think I proved in the preseason, kicking the last two weeks, that I could do it.

Jim Landis

He knew who to kick in the butt, who to pat on the back.

Julia Mancuso

Going into the second run, I just had to remember it was about skiing, it wasn't about winning or about what place I was in. Once I kicked out of the start gate, I just tried to go my fastest.

H. Hart

Hogan, 4 years ago you ran away from me.............but now I'm here...........and I will kick your ass.

Greg Holland

it didn't just kick in when the new measurement methods kicked in.

Keith Nelson

We train all the time, ... Once we get wherever we're going, our training will kick in and we'll do whatever comes our way down there.

Robert Stallard

We think a down-cycle is likely to kick in at some point toward the end of the decade.

Stacey Grissom

It is not going to be 14 days, and they are not going to be kicked out of the hotels. Our priority is to make sure these people have a shelter over their heads.

Will Bynum

I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Wyclef Jean

He rules, he's real tough when it comes to business. I'm like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.

Mike Kuntz

Here, we had them on their heels, and we wanted to go for the jugular, but we didn't pick up a blitz.

Jay Haugland

He's deceivingly fast. When you watch him from the outside, sometimes he doesn't look that fast, but he can pick up speed in a hurry.

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Susan Williams

We're pretty picky on those kind, and my first reaction was it was an error.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Ruth Miller

We're now role models, so if we see a piece of garbage, we'd better pick it up.

Mike Shanahan

When he's in there, there is a presence. He really picks up our team.

Joan Anderson

We should, can and most of the time do communicate with God directly. To my knowledge, angels are not necessary for anything. But God's creation is abundant, and asking "Why angels?" would be like asking why there are thousands of varieties of trees or stars, when we could get along with so much less. God Himself told us many times that He was sending angels to love and care for us, so He is the one who brought them into our lives. Therefore, even if we don't understand their entire purpose, I vote that we pay attention to them.

Robert Cormier

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Rob Sheffield

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Rob Zombie

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

Rob Brydon

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

Richard Paul Evans

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Richard Paul Evans

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Richard Paul Evans

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

Richard P. Feynman

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Ken Johnson

The FCC has levied an unconstitutional tax on telephone companies,

Tim Pape

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Kent Conrad

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

Len Burman

Non-compliance amounts to a tax of about $2,000 on every taxpayer.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

William Henry Harrison

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Jeremy Mayfield

If you're not careful, this thing can get to you, trying to get in the top 10 for the chase.

Chris Barclay

I just told him to top that, if he could.