Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Greene

That FDA advisory is one of my all-time pet peeves.

Dave Allen

Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process.

Fritz Elmendorf

Banking was never free because consumers were not getting a market rate on their savings and were paying a lot more for loans.

Richard Peterson

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

Wataru Kasatani

The sale is probably the last one by a major bank, making it positive for the banking stocks overall.

Robert Siciliano

There is a serious disconnect between the issue at hand and the banking industry. I don't think they realize just how much the consumer needs to be informed.

Tyler Cowen

What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.

Ron Mendelson

Navigating the complex legal and tax issues involved in investing and banking offshore requires the services of a professional who is specially trained in offshore investing and banking.

Richard Jerram

Some people are thinking that is a little bit too small to get the banking system back on its feet.

Ping Chew

Most banking systems in the Asia-Pacific region have improved their credit profiles, thanks to stable economic conditions and continuing structural improvements. This is in spite of rising oil prices and interest rates threatening the broader economic recovery.

Rolf Breuer

We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business,

James St. James

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.

Mike Di

The storm patterns are changing in a short period of time. Since 1995 we've been having good rainfall years.

Justin Lane

I've been struggling, pulling my head out. The coaches have been working with me on changing to a stance where I could keep my head in better.

Ezra Klein

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

Robert Greene

There are enough things changing that if you have something that works, you stay with it. For a standard infrastructure server, there just isn't that great a demand on the processor.

Donn Szaro

Dyadic International wouldn't have made the list the year before but did in 2005 after changing its focus.

David Perlmutter

The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.

Scottish Proverb

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Charlotte Gilman

... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

Charles Pyle

School divisions know that memos are the primary means we communicate with them.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Arthur Miller

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

Benjamin Banneker

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Brenda Ueland

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Jane Goodall

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Alan Lightman

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Alain de Botton

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Dontell Jefferson

Of course we don't want to cost the school any money, but as a player you want to have interaction like that.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Patricia Jennerjohn

So there is a cost of waiting, and it's huge. That's an important thing to see.

Robert Boehm

Once you've installed one of these systems the cost is fixed, so if your conventional systems of energy are increasing greatly in price, this is going to become fairly cost effective.

Michael Wright

Now it will still cost a packet to get there but we'll know we're in the field.

Jim Silver

Oil prices are particularly important to toy manufacturers because they impact the cost of resin and plastic used to make toys,

Jose Montilla

The takeover is creating uncertainty for an industry which at the moment is working well in Spain. The lack of an industrial plan heightens this.

Barbara Mikulski

Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

Tom Hodgkinson

Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do.

Boris Johnson

The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.

Eckhart Tolle

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Eckhart Tolle

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

Nick Cannon

to start creating my own projects. People want to work with me but there aren't that many scripts being written for me.

Jeff Johnson

As the population grows, we're not creating enough jobs as it is to keep up with the levels we have. What we need is stronger growth that is more employment-creative, or employment-intensive.

Joel Dickson

Distributions are no reason to panic, ... What you're doing if you sell is realizing all of your gains. You're selling your fund and you're creating a taxable event.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

David Porter

We decided that for this holiday season we should be involved in some type of offering. We know our customers match up with his fans.

Dave Andrews

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Bob Mitchell

Customers are shopping the market. They expect a deal when they come in.

Jeff Smith

Even though there were 5,500 customers who were out, they were not all from Gilroy.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Jeff Bezos

In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.

John Browning

It's a different world. The new group will have to operate differently. The industrial partners will play an important role. If there's a product the government wants, they will necessarily be focused on delivering that. A lot more money will be at stake.

Bruce Wilkinson

When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

Al Diamond

If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

By reducing the number of plasmids, we increase the efficiency of virus production,

Zig Ziglar

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Donald Powell

This will enable people to get on with their lives.

Deborah Scott

I wanted to do something to enhance the park that the kids would be able to use and enjoy. I meet a lot of mothers that go to other parks because there's not much to do at Orchard Park.

Joan Chen

The factory that I work with, all the products are on the shelf, they are existing products. I can go and enhance it. The perfume is 60% mine.

Eric Schmitt

Microsoft has to figure out a way to use the network to enhance their software. They can link to dictionary.com or thesaurus.com instead of bundling those features into Microsoft Word.

Deniz Anders

We're always looking for a way to enhance service.

Elizabeth Spelke

Knowing this, we may be able to enhance math training.

Jamie McLennan

I think it's good. It puts us on a stage with every other sport that's major. People who know hockey know there really is not a place in hockey for steroids. I'm sure there are things you want to enhance your performance, but I think at the end of the day you'll see we are clean.

Ray Stevens

They do a lot of things to help us enhance the visitor's experience,

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

Michael Eisner

We are keeping our eyes open, ... We are happy with what we got with the Fox Family acquisition. We will keep looking but we are not going to do it to get a good headline in the media. If we are going to do anything at all it will be to enhance the company.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Lesley Nicol

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

Bruce Lee

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Guus Hiddink

We have picked a squad that is flexible and will be able to adapt,

David Gross

We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and) private sector led.

Kenneth Relihan

It is kind of a flexible kind of situation.

David Cole

They have moved from a rigid culture, to a much more lean and flexible company.

Gord Ash

We don't know where; we don't know when. That's one of the flexible parts of the equation. Obviously, you'd like it to be at higher levels because of the competition, but you don't want him pitching in 35-degree weather.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

David Ditzel

And when we go to our highly integrated chip, we're going to take off another 44 percent. So we think we've got a substantial lead today, and we're going to keep that.

Douglas Johnson

We couldn't think any more highly of him.

Bob Bratkowski

Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week.

Ian Stacker

At the end of the day John was the one who started that whole incident so I can't speak more highly of him about it.

Ehud Barak

We highly respect (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad and if he needs some time before the negotiation is resumed we will respect it and we will wait. We will be there when they are ready.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Rob Enderle

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

Brian Hall

the utilities savings more than make up for the increase in your monthly mortgage.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Alan King

We could see a small increase as a result of that.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Pedro Gutierrez

We haven't had the increase of the meter. We have to keep working on the same rate we're used to three years ago.

Tom Ridge

That's nothing more than sharing some information that may be relevant to pilots and may be relevant to the law enforcement community. Nothing more, nothing less,

Arthur Miller

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Luisa Deason

We have questioned three individuals who have provided us with lots of information.

Eduardo Galeano

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Jesse Hodgson

We want to get the information out to other firefighters so that they don't make the same mistakes we're making and vice versa.

Steve Wright

We just don't have enough information right now to make a comment.

Kevin Cunningham

You have to have all the information before you can evaluate, and I want to learn more,

Lauren Peduzzi

When you participate as a party in an NTSB investigation, the rules are that only the NTSB releases any information. (The union) violated those rules.

David Keene

We don't just look at a small piece of the SOA stack. We've integrated all these technologies to work together as part of a platform.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Marc Chandler

Once we got through an important technical level that triggered a lot of stops. We went through the level that the technicians thought was a bottom.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Richard Fox

you must have a network in order to make this a continuous, profitable scheme.

Stacey Koerner

Every network has something that it can talk about.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Bob Bennett

We are still going to require that students still take the SAT with the writing section, as well as the ACT.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Hillary Clinton

I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Lilli Palmer

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Max Gillespie

It's a challenge, especially with with soccer in the fall. That's two sports that require numbers.

Charles Stanley

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ray Ozzie

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

Iain McGilchrist

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Ahmed Plummer

I would like to start. That's what I've been doing here, but that's totally up to the coaches.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Craig Ferguson

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

Bob Dole

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Aristotle

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

Deepak Chopra

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Alfred Stieglitz

The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Aldous Huxley

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Dylan McDermott

We shared the same vision.