Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

John Battelle

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

Sandra Taylor

We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there.

Helen Zille

It's as big a scandal, for example, as the voluntary severance packages in schools which stripped education of so many skills and experience at the cost of billions of rands, and the schools system hasn't recovered.

Stephen Kinzer

American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.

Florian Mueller

Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.

Liu Qi

For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.

Lynn Turner

For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.

Sheryl Kingstone

You don't spend that much money just for a customer base. If they discontinue the product, they're going to lose those customers anyway, because they won't be happy. So that means they would have spent billions for nothing.

Jerry Angelo

It's a tough position. It's a supply-and-demand business, and the colleges just aren't generating enough of them.

Claire Ellis

They have a lot of colleges and universities (in Michigan), ... but they don't have a lot of jobs.

Verlene Powell

They say some of these are the same problems with our schools today. It's similar to what's going on with the colleges right now.

Jason Robinson

There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some colleges were looking at him,

Rob Moore

It's a highly competitive environment. There are about 3,400 universities in the U.S. alone, that's not counting community colleges or online providers.

Mark Lyons

It's all about having fun. You want exposure, you want the colleges to see you, and if you're having fun, it's because you're doing things right.

David Stahl

It was fantastic. Earl took fight songs from various colleges and universities and made it a terrific, joyous time.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

John Schultz

Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Katzenberg family, we can return to the forefront of colleges whose equipment and facilities are on the industry's cutting edge. The facilities upgrade will have an impact for many years to come.

Claudia Baucus

It's a highly uncertain regime after that date. Nobody wants to be the first to try out a new law.

Chu Shulong

It's a highly personalized rule, much more personalized than even Mao's time here.

Paul Denham

It's a tragic situation but it's also highly unusual,

Richard Engel

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

David Healy

People think highly of Henderson, but I'm sorry that Devine is leaving. He tells it like it is, and he's a known quantity.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Application of the new system may be especially advantageous in situations of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses.

Mark Fagan

The threat is still there, especially with young trees. They're highly susceptible to citrus canker and all you need is one windblown rain event.

Ron Forman

After a series of interviews with a number of the highly credentialed law enforcement professionals from around the country, I think we've identified three outstanding candidates,

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.

Jack Reed

There was inadequate planning, inadequate recognition of the problem at every level.

Dick Cheney

As long as we do things or pursue policies that don't increase the supply, then what we'll find on the other end is inadequate supply and spiking prices,

Damon Dash

Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focussed.

E. B. White

The strength of the materials was inadequate to support the slope over time. It was a soil-like material, not a rock material.

Stanley Smith

We had plans for a 5,000-square-foot library, with inadequate parking.

Charles M. Blow

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

Kusnanto Anggoro

In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.

David Rowland

The offers are inadequate and would entail unacceptable levels of risk.

Dr. Katz

You can't. Routine tests will not show inadequate intake.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Charlaine Harris

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

Bill Maher

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Charles Stanley

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

Bill Toomey

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

Tim Anderson

They have a more complicated structure and require more complicated processing. Our role is to better understand the and transfer the technology to industry.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

Max Gillespie

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

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

David Rakoff

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

Bob Bennett

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

Kevin Smith

the wind is polishing the roads to glaze in about 20 minutes.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Wanda Hartman

I didn't schedule any new roads for paving. There's nothing scheduled for maintenance sealing either. They all need it. Where do you start?

Don Allen

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

Jan Egeland

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,

Rudi Giuliani

It may look like the worst is over, and in many ways it is, but the roads will be very slippery and very dangerous, particularly during the night,