Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Jay Lapidus

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Robert Hammonds

Joel played with a lot of heart, tonight. He didn't score when we came over here last time. He really got after it and we have to have that out of our seniors.

Peter Doherty

Joe kept us in the game in the second period, then he came out in the third and gave up a couple of real beauties.

Ron Nelson

Josh was a little off tonight. He was probably trying a little too hard because he knows a lot of those guys. But Matt did exactly what he's capable of doing. He came in and gave us a good four innings.

Bill Brooks

Josh is still pretty young, but he gained so much experience from his dad. When I found out his dad came in I knew that would be a good team. His father reminds me of Charlie Wingate, who was a good trainer for me. That's a big plus for Josh.

Gary Walker

I talk to him all the time, ... I just tell him, 'That's what you came here for. You're a first-round pick. You're going to be fine.'

Randy Jackson

It actually came off as a nice kind of package. I actually liked it, man, I liked it.

Britt Beemer

It's interesting they flipped the jobs. They want the future CEO to have experience on the domestic and international side equally. It may be that Wal-Mart looks at the international side as equal to the U.S.

Sara Rue

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.

Casey Silver

As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time and I'm especially pleased with the films scheduled for the next 24 months. I look forward to working with the company in an independent capacity.

Anne Mulcahy

As CEO of Xerox, I am ready and privileged to lead a team of dedicated employees who are as sharply focused and committed as I am in the successful turnaround of our company.

Ben Obomanu

I've always thought about being a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I want to put myself in a position where I can use the resources I gained by playing football.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

James Lowry

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.

Ken Goldstein

The September data indicate a general weakening in the job picture nationwide -- a trend we were seeing before the recent hurricanes, ... That data is consistent with the latest CEO Confidence Survey, which is also down.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Italian Proverb

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

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Brian Redican

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

Bob Wood

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

Tom Ryan

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

Chip Sodemann

Just making the conference tournament is huge for us. The MIAA has a lot of pride, history and tradition in its programs.

Dale Brown

It can't be taken for granted. No other Louisiana school has gone to it. Only six Southeastern Conference schools have made it.

Jim Thompson

It always feels good to win a conference match away from home. The girls played well on a golf course that we had not played well on before.

Mel Blasi

Golf is a funny game; anything can happen. Our conference is strong and well-balanced. There are no guarantees.

Michael White

He said I might be tied for the Big West Conference record for injuries.

Scott Maddox

I thought we responded well to our first conference loss. We knew a fast start was important and the guys did exactly what we needed by jumping them early.

Barry Hinson

I think the conference race is already done. I think Wichita State is going to win the race. I think what everybody else is trying to do is to get the highest seed they can get for the tournament, or finish as the runner-up.

Mike Loyd

Whatever happens this year, we won't be able to use inexperience as an excuse. Most of our guys have been there and done it before. It may take us a little while to hit our stride, but I fully expect us to contend for the conference championship.

Brent Erickson

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Syd Kitson

It confirmed people are looking for a community. A safe neighborhood where there are a lot of eyes on the kids.

Shinobu Asagoe

I thought the (seventh) game was finished and when I askedthe umpire, she confirmed it, ... Then they started counting the points and nobody could rememberthe third one, so in the end it looked like it was all my fault.

Kevin Gould

CMBX has been designed to provide investors with an efficient means to gain diversified exposure to the U.S. CMBS market. The standardized nature of the index, coupled with the fact that trades can be confirmed through DTCC, will pave the way for a liquid and operationally efficient market.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

David Hewson

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

Vernon Mwaanga

The doctors have since confirmed that the president had indeed suffered a minor stroke for which he has been receiving appropriate treatment.

Yasuhisa Ishida

The dollar was buoyed as the market confirmed that interest rate differentials between Japan and other major economic countries would not shrink for a while.

Victor Shum

The fundamentals are quite bearish ... the inventory data ... essentially confirmed that the market is (well) supplied with product.

Carl Pohlad

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

Kevin Towers

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

Herb Cytyrn

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

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

E. O. Wilson

Kara is such an intelligent girl. She was such a good presence for us inside. She really stepped up today and hit some key baskets for us in the second half.

Walt Fennell

Keep thinking about payday. Have a good night.

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Jacque Fresco

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Henry A. Kissinger

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Johannes Tauler

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Oriana Fallaci

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

Nhat Hanh

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

Jodi Picoult

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Clinton

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Sarah Addison Allen

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Kurt Cobain

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.