Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Randy Levine

We're in the process of negotiating agreements that we think are going to be very significant.

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

Shashi Tharoor

If there weren't a United Nations, it would have taken the U.S. decades to reach agreements with 191 countries to do that.

John Ferguson

The implications are what they are. It's made it more of a challenge to reach agreements with players in that category. But it was collectively bargained. The parties saw fit to include the provision and it's an aspect we're dealing with.

Tasneem Aslam

A joint statement, to be issued at the end of the president's visit, will highlight the importance of agreements and understanding to be reached during his talks with Pakistani leaders.

Joe McInerney

The hotel industry is committed to fair contract negotiations for our workers in each city. We want to reach agreements that benefit our employees. But the 'Change to Win' campaign and recent leafleting in 60 cities is designed to pressure companies into signing these 'card check neutrality agreements' and deprive our employees of the right to choose for themselves.

Eliot Spitzer

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

Mike Sullivan

I think it is terrific. I'm so happy for him because he has worked so hard to get himself back into a condition where he can compete at this level. That is a testament to the type of guy that he is. We are ecstatic that he is participating in our camp.

Brandie Hoskins

I always expect our play to stay at the same level or to get better. I never expect anything else because in practice we have players that are good and compete hard. It makes stuff a lot easier knowing that you can have somebody come in for you and compete the same way you do.

Jeremy Tate

He knows now he can compete with anyone.

Erick Jensen

He is the most technical wrestler on our team and should definitely compete for the state title.

Donnie McGrath

Half that team is NBA. It's tough to compete with a team like that for 40 minutes.

Chris Douthit

Hannah has been our most consistent runner. Our girls, two through eight, have been shifting around in their finishes. If they can all go out and run as strongly as they can, they can compete with the top teams.

Michael Caddell

There are so many inconsistencies between their data and their conclusions you have to question either their competence or their integrity.

Keyon Dooling

He's a guy that you have to play big against. Everybody in the West was trying to compete with the Lakers, because they were the dynasty. But now, you see a more free-flowing offense out there.

Carey Hazell

Here's what I feel comfortable saying. I think we will be able to compete with any of the teams that we will meet in tournaments.

Craig Johnson

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

Richard Gray

It is about retail as theatre. Our customers want to come in and be entertained so we have DJs in menswear, or we play movies on screens. Merchandising has to be very eye-catching.

Scott Helbing

We're offering the tools and services that help our customers enjoy the digital lifestyle.

David Graves

It is similar to the process in Massachusetts, where it is a six-month cycle for half of the customers and then the rates are blended.

Ed Zander

I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will and our products will win on the shelves.

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Dennis Cary

In the international markets ... the first- and business-class customers are about half the revenue on the airplane. These are customers who for a 12-hour journey are looking for a different experience.

Jon Gruden

It could be a few weeks. It could be the end of the season. We don't know for sure. I'll just sit here and wait until I'm told the extent of this injury.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Jackie Speier

In terms of transparency in total compensation, we need to look at what's a reasonable number, and to what extent it's appropriate.

Laura McDowell

They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.

Arthur Jr.

This is a very serious crime. Once the hackers are identified, we will prosecute them to the full extent of the law.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Ricardo Semler

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think -- what are the foremost tools of power? You will find that it is information.

Todd Phillips

I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios.

John Bolton

the world's foremost peddler of ballistic missile-related equipment, components, materials, and technical expertise.

Kathleen Blanco

We don't like looters one bit, but first and foremost is search and rescue.

John Podesta

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

Carolyn Femovich

First and foremost we are not looking to penalize student-athletes.

Larry Elder

First and foremost I'm an entertainer; I've got to put eardrums next to the box. There's a reason people don't watch PBS. It's highly informative, but it's boring.

Matt Hammitt

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Eddie Cibrian

He could see through his neck, ... but the head was way up here.

Rod Barton

He just shook his head and said something like, 'People put in what they want to put in.

Rick Rudesill

He keeps it simple. He's not flashy. It looks like he plays to win, not to look good. He's a heady player and keeps it under control.

Steve Irwin

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Michael Nylander

Here, he has been standing on his head. Why wouldn't he stand on his head there?

Peter Fonda

Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't.

J. Taylor

We're on the right track and headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, we're out of track.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Dale Jr

I think we're all right. I think we're going to start third and fifth. I don't know; the 38's on the pole, right?

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.