Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions

Stephen Manes

Saddling the latest version of your company's flagship product with a name that reminds old-timers like me of the Dodge Colt Vista or the even more ancient Oldsmobile Vista-Cruiser? At Microsoft, that's what passes for innovation. In his opening speech at a recent Microsoft analysts meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer uttered the 'i' word no less than 24 times.

Elaine Pagels

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

Ghassem Asrar

The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,

Martin Filler

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

David Goodwin

The stigma of St. Pete as a retirement community is just so long gone. That old stereotype is ancient history. We want that thing buried.

Bertrand Russel

The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.

Paul Levinson

This goes back to ancient Greek drama. This has always been the role of fiction and entertainment to let us try these things out in a totally safe way. There's a perennial interest in these type of things. What they all have in common is bending the boundaries.

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.

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.

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.

Lynn Turner

That's indicative of a company with an imperial CEO and very poor controls.

Paul Graham

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

John Laughlin

With Lithia, you have a CEO who is not only the major stock owner but the person over the last 20 years that has taken all the risks by deciding to do the expansion he has done,

Edmund Phelps

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Joe Torre

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

O. Henry

When it launched, it really got out of Dodge in a hurry.

Kyle Busch

This is a great way to start with a new group of guys. Our Dodge was fast today and hopefully it was still be fast on Sunday.

Dontrelle Willis

I tried to dodge it, but it was on me so quick, and I have a big backside.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Felipe Alou

Sometimes, ... you have to take less to get more.

Penny Bartley

Sometimes they will return because they have been successful at that place. They feel less risk.

Francis Borrego

Right now, we are playing with less than two-thirds of the team.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

James Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted

Larry Ellison

Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,

Jeff Johnson

He was saying, 'Look what I did at Microsoft and look what I can do for you.

Chris LeTocq

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Bill Gates

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Bill Gates

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Bill Gates

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

James Ellman

It was tough to sell something with the Merrill Lynch name on it.

Dennis Scott

I understand that his name starts with D and that he wears No. 3 but he needs to get a new nickname.

Michael Chabon

the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.

Justin Kamp

This is a positive thing area. You name it, she did it.

Lindsey Graham

That's why most Americans sometimes are dumbfounded about what's going on in the name of religion,

LaVerne Knox

That one person, I can't remember his name right now ... he's the ringleader. He said he'd have our back.

John Barnes

A judge, a dentist, lawyers, two undertakers, a mayor, a township manager. All the trades, you name it.

Atharva Veda

Your Name is the treasure of jewels, Lord. You are the True Banker; Your devotee is the trader.

Ted Shaw

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he.

David Rakoff

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

Richard Read

You are really playing a positioning strategy here, ... You don't want to throw 'Chicago' out there while 'Lord of the Rings' is still going strong, or opening on the same weekend with blockbusters like 'Gangs of New York.'

Scott Podsednik

Every opening day is special, but this one is really special.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Christian Moody

His passes were perfect. Look at his shooting. I think he's the best.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Frida Kahlo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line. We think microprocessors were OK,

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line, ... We think microprocessors were OK.

Dennis Anderson

The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.

Ken Hamlin

We had the right product at the right time.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Dwayne Andreas

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Colleen McCullough

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Confucius

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Jean Fontaine

Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.

Eugene Christiansen

Horseracing is still waiting for its Steve Lipscomb,

Tom Muller

One job, one wife, one house. That's Steve Flores.

Bus Cook

We have to get some things resolved. I'm sure the Titans want to keep Steve, and I'm sure they will. Steve wants to stay, and we want to keep him in Tennessee.

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Richard Wright

There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Rae Tyson

We just thought we should get the word out there in the meantime.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.