Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Hafeez Khawaja

WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Chanel Iman

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Charles Rangel

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Dave Lindimore

We want to stress that the order of these projects isn't set in stone. The list is an estimate, and after annual inventory of streets, priorities will change.

Bobby Jackson

We also sponsor the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday celebration every third Monday of January.

Gary Thayer

The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price deflator was revised from 0.7 percent annual rate to 1.0. That's still very low, but it was revised upward instead of downward. There is possibly some building inflationary pressure, but it's still very benign.

James Matthews

We are seeing annual bonuses, which used to be reserved for the professional-level employee, being used more broadly in lower levels in the organizations, represented in our study by the manufacturing employee.

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Judy Gresser

What he has done is created a permanent source of funding for these agencies. The organizations he has named in the fund can count on receiving an annual check from now until forever.

Robert Walzel

We've tried to combine ongoing things, such as the annual Scholarship Concert, into the Mozart concerts.

Laura Bush

We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here.

Michelle Harutunian

United Way funding is vital to Harvest Texarkana's daily operations, being one of the few nonprofits that does not receive government funding on an annual basis. We are totally reliant on United Way dollars, profits from various fund-raisers and donations from area businesses, churches and community groups and individuals.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

Joe Tucci

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

Andrew Lochart

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

Steve Miskin

As we put together this year's budget, we'll probably be taking a closer look at that.

Ellyn McColgan

All our businesses are increasing market share relative to their competitors. Our numbers exceeded budget.

Joel Friedman

They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget, it makes it more front-and-center.

Richard Collins

The number of individuals and families in Georgia who buy their own health insurance is growing every day and, like all Americans, they are struggling to fit another expense into their budgets at a time when everything seems to cost more from the gas pump to home heating.

Richard Barber

It is very important to know what has stabilized Earth's heat, carbon dioxide and water budgets,

Chuck Yeager

It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn't have picked a better guy to hype the space program.

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Peter Fricker

We're still leading the way but the margins are narrowing and rival countries have learnt from us. I'm in it to win it and we're here to win and the gloves are off.

Oliver Houston

We've got members in over 85 countries around the world, this is not just about people who are going week-in, week-out,

Jomo Gbomo

We are also considering the release of the Thai, Egyptian and Filipino hostages as well. Their countries do not have interests in the Nigerian oil industry.

Jim Sexton

We've already exceeded in 2006 our revenue for 2005 in terms of signed deals.

Richard Davies

We found some guys. It went well. It exceeded my expectations.

Nandan Nilekani

A big part of Bangalore's problem is that growth has exceeded everybody's wildest expectations.

Rick Schroder

It's exceeded my expectations, in every way, really. The people are nicer than I imagined they could have been. They were more supportive of me than I hoped they would be.

Kent Johnson

A lot of people thought he could just run the football, but they found out that he could throw the football. I knew he'd do a great job because he's the ultimate competitor. He exceeded our expectations.

Kim Williams

They met and quite possibly exceeded my expectations for the first meet of the year.

Bill Cowher

For every yard that he's gained on the field, this guy, in my mind, has exceeded that off the field ? the kind of guy he is, the way he gives back and what he stands for. I've never been around too many guys like that.

James Ryan

The number of procedures that he was performing at one hospital in particular (Lourdes), greatly exceeded anything that any other cardiologist was doing.

Shannon Cross

They exceeded what they guided to pretty significantly.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Charles Rhodes

We're going to play through it. I know it. It's just, we got to keep our heads up. It's frustrating. I'm frustrated. But we're going to learn from our mistakes.

Jim Steets

When we first got these findings we were scratching our heads because it does raise questions about what the source (of the leak) really is.

Matt Murphy

We're still scratching our heads over that one. We'll have to re-measure.

Phil Garner

We let them off the hook and let them keep their heads in the game,

Maura Harty

a big heads up that this is a big management concern.

Joe Crede

It's just a matter of us putting things together. We'll be fine. We know things will turn around. We've seen enough to know that we just have to keep our heads up.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Art Johnson

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.

Nolan Sotillo

I met Victoria Justice once. She was so nice. I've always been a fan.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Bob Brown

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Raymond Kelly

We're doing a meticulous search at all possible locations,

Andrew Silver

It's a sign that spare metal is around.

Marc Ratner

They met once and I think they're doing things individually.

George Zoffinger

They met every obligation that they have indicated to us.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Greg Waldrop

All of my qualified students are 100 percent employed. Not every student is qualified.

Joss Whedon

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Marcelo Castillo

But we're the real deal. We keep proving them wrong.

Alberto Martinez

That we have the organization to do it. That's what this tour is about: proving there is no front-runner in this race.

Don Porter

We'll be working towards the things that need to be done to our sport overall. We're not sitting on our hands, we're still working at proving things that we need to do, we know that.

Sunil Reddy

We look at Qualcomm as a wireless juggernaut, and it's proving it can execute,

Randall Stephenson

You can work together. You don't have to own one. We're proving it today.

Marc Bulger

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Jim Roberts

The wind resource is there, it's the transmission constraint.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Darryl Franklin

We all know there is not the resources and wherewithal to do all the things in the plan.

R. Inge

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Troy Pachner

They made the type of adjustments that a state championship team makes.

Tim Koerber

This ain't getting any easier. The top two state teams were in our region. You just never know.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Adam Campbell

It's the state tournament. Everyone comes to play.

Brian Roper

They are a very disciplined team, and you can see why they are two-time state champions.

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Carlos Castaneda

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Edward Kennedy

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.