Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Hu Jintao

I admire what you have achieved at Microsoft. You, Mr. Bill Gates, are a friend of China, and I'm a friend of Microsoft.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Mark Bradshaw

He wanted to try to walk on the team, and I set criteria for him where if he could do certain dives then I would let him walk on, and he achieved that.

Stephane Dion

What we have achieved is not at the level of what we have committed, ... We need to be sure we will be at the end as strong as we claimed we would be at the start.

Craig Johnson

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

Richard Gray

It is about retail as theatre. Our customers want to come in and be entertained so we have DJs in menswear, or we play movies on screens. Merchandising has to be very eye-catching.

Scott Helbing

We're offering the tools and services that help our customers enjoy the digital lifestyle.

David Graves

It is similar to the process in Massachusetts, where it is a six-month cycle for half of the customers and then the rates are blended.

Ed Zander

I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will and our products will win on the shelves.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Vic Tarasik

In the customer's mind, we all do the same thing. The prices are about the same. What is it about the customers that drive them to us? It's not about you car, it's about you.

David Cook

Jail overcrowding -- that's what's driving everybody's car.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Bob Wilson

I think it makes people think and realize the hazards of driving and the need to be safe.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Detective Legros

He said he was just driving around and needed the money.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Spike Milligan

His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum.

John Silvia

I think it's just oil and optimism about the New Year. I think oil is the driving factor due to the warmer weather, but people are now looking for better than expected (fourth-quarter) earnings, better than expected retail sales number. There's a host of good numbers out there.

Russ Rader

It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Ralph Willard

Kevin got hit in the face during practice the other day and was in agony. His status is up in the air, and if he plays I'm not sure how effective he will be.

Roland Rust

I think it has a huge impact. It's become more important, rather than less, because mass media has become less effective. It's particularly more effective than an advertisement, because people's defenses are down.

James King

I think it?d be more effective if you got your top off.

Joe Girardi

I actually thought Vargas was better tonight. He was down in the zone. He just threw a lot of pitches. I thought he was more effective tonight than in his last start.

Frank Robinson

He can throw it at any time and throw it for strikes. It's a very effective pitch for him. I want to learn how he throws it, keep it in mind, maybe teach it to someone else.

Geoff Smith

We're officially retiring as Kurt Busch's apologists, ... effective today.

Jason Witten

I think we improved tonight. We really put an emphasis this preseason on the run and I feel like it was more effective tonight.

Mike Rivera

He was making good pitches, getting ahead, going at people. I think that's why he was so good. He was effective going at people.

Sherwood Schwartz

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

Greg Thompson

He'll say some pretty funny stuff at the expense of a lot of people in the audience, but then he'll come back and redeem himself five minutes later.

Mark Schonfeld

In the world of unregulated hedge funds, it can be hard to tell fact from fiction. This one was pure fiction. The defendants led lifestyles of the rich and famous at the expense of their investors.

Toye Taylor

I'm looking for quality of life, non-recurring expenses for these funds.

Howard Levine

Their (the students') goal was to get some money for the sisters to have, outside of the special trust that's been set up for them. The Key Club's goal was to give them some general expense money.

David Bridges

The food and the plating will be pretty meticulous, ... It's one of those things where no expense is spared.

Friso Abbing

The new regulation does not say: New immigrants can come to the EU, or you don't have to work and we'll give you more rights, even if you're living at the expense of our tax payers.

Ernesto Herrera

It is this negligence and indifference by the two departments that has precisely emboldened the oil firms to freely increase their prices, often in concert, as if they were operating like a cartel, at the expense of consumers.

Tom Schoewe

This impacted our operating profit by $30 million and our total utility expense rose by $100 million in the quarter,

Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Michael Keaton

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Joe Newman

We looked at the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, CBA and NBDL and there were little or no minority ownerships. Unless you were a famous star, all of those leagues were excluding minorities.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

It's really beautiful. But you know, fancy footwear is a pain!

Umberto Eco

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Samuel Gompers

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

Van Jones

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

William Godwin

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Washington Allston

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

Marshall Wittmann

Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.

Chuck Robinson

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

Art Hogan

The larger trend remains to the upside, but its hard to say whether we'll see gains in the short-term,

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Walter Robb

I would say it was about a month ago and I had an offer in my pocket and I was ready to sell. If I had not been able to find a good parent team, I would have sold. Then we had a meeting with Carolina.

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Tim Moe

I think we've improved more than they have. Warroad has a lot of juniors and seniors but our young kids have picked it up.

Russ Biundo

He has improved remarkably. Still, we have a long way to go.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Phil Garner

Their pitching is much improved over last year,

Kiki Vandeweghe

It's well deserved. He's just improved by leaps and bounds. I'm really, really happy... He really works to make his team better.

Guus Hiddink

There was little in it then and we have improved in the last year, ... It looks fifty-fifty but we're confident.

Robert Broadfoot

It really hasn't improved much in 20 years.

Zig Ziglar

Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.

Michael Keenan

If you look at the subcategories, you see a backlog in sales orders while inventory levels are down and purchasing commitments are up,

Gary Bauer

The inventory is up and prices are up. It's a little surprising. It was a nice January.

Kevin Logan

You can only run down inventory for so long.

Napoleon Hill

Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

Cathy Arnett

That inventory has increased, but they're also selling fast.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Jayson Swain

I think the problem last year was people were taking the pressure the wrong way. We were pressing to make the big plays.

Jim Grobe

I thought a win last week was pretty important and we didn't get it. Any win for us right now is important. Every team we play here down the stretch, if we're going to have any kind of season at all, is important. Our players understand that.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Anton LaVey

It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Rick Fox

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Sarah Palin

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Vince Young

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

William Vickrey

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

Samantha Barks

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Woody Williams

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

John Challenger

Summer is always a slow job-cut time. Management is away, and vacations are going on,

Mikir Shah

At around 80 percent, it effectively has total management control.

Vaughn Cordle

They have a right to be upset, because what management is proposing is quite dramatic.

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Ricky Ford

I don't feel like we have the marketing package, ... We're going to have to look at starting salary.

Sue Jones

He has tremendous communications and marketing skills. He already has revamped our Web site and started a newsletter.

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Mike James

If people want to say I'm marketing myself that way, that's fine, so be it.

Henry Ford

Minicars produce miniprofits.

Kylie Bax

I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

Sarah Davis

There was a problem with a refinery that wasn't operating fully.

Mike Jacobs

It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Rob Navias

It seems to have ceased operating very quickly after its deployment.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Larry Jenkins

This is a property levy that will be 10.3-mills operating levy on the ballot. But it's actually replacing a 5-mill levy that expiring this year.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Julie Vallese

We take the company's word for it at the onset, but through our investigation we'll have to look or prove whether this product is better.

Richard Segal

We think cross-selling is important, but we're not obsessing about whether one of those products is sports betting.

Werner Herzog

I am a product of my failures,

Bill Harris

Our Quicken product had the most profitable season in its 15-year history,

Michael Wittner

If there is a bearish theme, it's about U.S. product demand.

Bert Hochfeld

Informix has strong products in a strong market.

James Inhofe

I am a product of the draft.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

LenDale White

It's not about how the first or second quarter ends,

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

David Wyss

The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.

Jacob Tamme

The second quarter has really killed us in a lot of games.

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Willie Williams

We just have to go there and finish. This is a different team from 1995 and, hopefully, we will have a different result.

Brad Anderson

I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place.

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.