Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Shostak

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Ed Hickey

Having Kinard and Barry helps a lot. Kinard can score, and Barry anchors our defense. They've been playing a lot of basketball. They know how to play, and they know how to make plays.

Robert DiClemente

He sees an explicit medium-term inflation target as an anchor for financial markets and a mechanism for Fed accountability.

Gavin Smith

We're proposing a new model of housing, to replace 20,000 FEMA trailers in our communities with something akin to the Katrina Cottage. They're more livable and more in keeping with our coastal architecture. They're safer and can be anchored on elevated foundations.

Jeff McKay

Our office worked hard with Federal Realty, encouraging them to first buy the center and then upgrade it. Since Federal Realty has taken ownership, the center has been totally rehabilitated, landscaping has been added, new quality anchor tenants have come, new buildings have been built, and finally the center is pedestrian friendly.

Jon Miller

Because it's very hard to get gas to behave the same way twice, it argues strongly that these frequencies are being anchored by the black hole's mass and spin, fundamental properties of the black hole itself.

Chip Desmone

In doing that, we could showcase our preservation projects, while at the same time create an anchor in a blighted neighborhood and ... give ourselves some space to work in.

Jim Morisette

I'm thinking about it. I'm going to sit down with my family and with Anchor Bay people.

Bob Zelnick

If I were making the decision, I imagine Charlie would anchor for another five or six years, ... they could get a 20-year ride, assuming TV news lasts another 20 years.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Paul Gallico

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.

William Matthews

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

George Shiffler

In some sense, the desktop market is being hit with a double whammy.

Paul Otellini

In recent years, the notebook has seen great evolution, but the good old desktop has not. But the desktop still has an enormous installed base; desktops are more than 70 percent of all PCs sold, about 85 million units per year.

Jack Finn

The goal is to get it to the president's desk today.

Rob Enderle

There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

Ross Anderson

Something that goes on the desktop has to be a simpler and more structured tool with fewer configuration options. It has to be running in the background.

Patrick Mahoney

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

Yolanda Clark

We have procedures. We will follow those procedures. We will operate our snow desk and run our equipment.

Tony Martin

I think it's accurate. I think they've locked themselves into a situation where they're gonna be stuck for quite a while.

Randy Ready

Guys missed some pitches to hit. In the last two weeks, we really haven't. That's gonna happen.

Jeffrey Benton

I think it's gonna be a catalyst-driven week,

Cliff Politte

I think you kick a guy in the butt in a tough situation, it's only gonna make it worse. You shouldn't go out there and say, 'You (stink), it's still a strike.' It's messing with a kid's head.

Brendan Bayliss

We try to make the music very dense. There are six people pulling in a lot of directions, so you're gonna get a lot of energy.

Sharon Lewis

I could sing before I could talk, Everything's Gonna Be Alright.

Bobby Januska

If you're gonna pin Billy, you're gonna have to really pin him. He doesn't give up many back points.

James Caan

I had my first puff on a joint when I was twenty-four and a half, and I was petrified. I thought I was gonna see elephants.

Hunter S. Thompson

I'm not a regular sports writer. You gonna let me in your pool?

J. M. Roberts

I know it wasn't that good. But I wasn't ready for the re-mix. You gotta understand that.

Paul Fassbender

You've gotta find a way to get over it. We made our own breaks. We did it to ourselves.

Terry Brands

It's gotta be, because he was on a private jet today.

Jerome Bettis

That's something you gotta live with. It is what it is.

Larry Coker

I told them we gotta get a lot better. There were a lot of mistakes, some off the snaps, too many penalties.

Chris Woods

There was a lot of space, and we've gotta get used to it.

Gloria Estefan

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

Terry Bradshaw

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.'

Joseph Carroll

With my cousin?s situation, I think maybe he got too many breaks, ... You gotta give people motivation to get out of that lifestyle.

William Gibson

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

Robert Quine

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!