Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Lefteroff

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Gordon Smith

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Simon Cowell

I thought the song was boring. It is 'American Idol' and you've got to be as broad as possible.

Terry Palmer

I think this needs to be broadcast a lot more in the coastal communities and the fishing communities.

Jonathan Adelstein

I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Jim Higgins

We may end this round of talks without any deals getting done. The next round of talks may be more in the nature of niche acquisitions than broad combinations.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Joe Malugen

We look forward to closing the Hollywood transaction promptly. With a broader geographic presence and greatly improved distribution capabilities and scale, our combined company will be a strong competitor.

Susan Cole

Kids need to learn financial lessons early when they have their parents as a safety net. If you're just learning about saving and budgeting when your first car payment is due, you could be in trouble.

George H. W. Bush

Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Brett Hall

His voice is strong. He's engaged in everything and wants to discuss what's happening right now with the budget and other bills.

Ozhan Bahrambeygui

I think it's important for kids to budget their time. I'm a big proponent of kids doing multiple sports. I like to think we put an emphasis on balance.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Steve Utkus

We're pretty confident it will be maintained or continued. Unlike other Bush tax provisions, it actually raises tax revenue under the budget rules because participants are paying taxes today.

Tom Daschle

to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.

Eric Johnson

Like most budgets, it's a roller coaster, ... We will strap ourselves in and see how many loop-de-loops there are.

Mike McCrary

There are so many good restaurants now that it leaves an economic opportunity. When everything goes upscale, you also need a layer of family dining, lower-scale ... This is an upward cycle, where up until three years ago it was a downward cycle in a big way." ()

Eric Chen

I think the cycle going forward is going to be more muted, or modest. I think 2005 was a good reflection of that.

Jim Paulsen

It gives you the sense that maybe this earnings cycle is going to be like the rest, where it starts out like it's going to be terrible and it ends up looking good, ... That's been the pattern for eight quarters.

Peter Watkins

I'd like to get that cycle time to less than six hours,

Naomi Fink

In Canada, the rate hike cycle hasn't fully matured yet. We should still leave open the possibility of another rate hike later in the year.

Michael Cohen

I'm excited about the second half of the year. That's when we'll likely see Vista and Office 12, some of the most significant releases in the company's history. I think that will lead to a PC upgrade cycle in the second half of the year.

Bob Stack

The last thing you want if you are in a testing cycle is a major interruption.

Harry Balzer

The restaurant industry has experienced two big turns. There was the growth cycle in 2000 followed by the big downturn that's still going on.

Richard Boucher

the need to end the cycle of violence is still there.

Nick Saban

I would stop short of saying that Ronnie was 100 percent, but he did do everything in practice. Those decisions will be made on a day-to-day basis.

Bruce Norris

It is good to make decisions about taxes prior to selling because you can't undo it.

David Trimble

Whatever decisions are taken, there is no place for violence and riot and the incidents that we have seen over the last few days,

Robert Dunn

The people that made the decisions and tied our hands are in Lansing, and Washington, D.C..

Bill Cowher

I thought the game slowed down for him this week. He made good decisions and looked comfortable out there. When you've been out that long, you have to get back up to game speed.

David Ruhnke

It is highly likely - virtually indisputable - that final decisions had not been reached as to any of the five defendants when these false notices were served.

Ted Schadler

It is more than just a hum in the background, ... There are real decisions being made and money being spent, and Microsoft is starting to see, at the margin, an impact.

Gary Capaldi

We made some good decisions and just played our game. We just got it done.

Mark Schmidt

We made some dumb decisions in the end of the game, but overall, I was pleased with our defense. We didn't shoot well, but we did other things well.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Neil MacDonald

Her work ethic is an example to everybody. She puts in everyday at practice and is very difficult to ignore because of her work ethic.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

John Dawson

We've enjoyed good trading in relatively difficult conditions.

Buck Layne

We've done surveys from time to time, and it's just difficult to say because they need to know what positions you're referring to.

Angus Gluskie

We suspect there will still be a workable solution, but whether they can find it and find it in what's a fairly tight timeline now is difficult to say.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Leo Nesmith

In this position, if you can't multi-task, you would struggle. Your time is divided in so many arenas.

Najib Mikati

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

Thelma Underberg

At one time the Legislature was pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. But through redistricting, they managed to get rid of a number of women ... (who) were progressive.

Hayes Harbour

We furnished the farm house and the land. They furnished the labor and the equipment and then we divided the profits. It was a perfect arrangement.

Keith Boykin

We are part of this family, and we will not be divided by any person.

Abu Mohammed

The minibus had just driven out of the garage when something exploded.

George Twigg

It's been a pretty graphic reflection of how much these nomination races are driven by momentum.

William Butler Yeats

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.

Steve Austin

not being driven nuts by a significant other always helps ones sanity and attitude. Trust me, of this I know what I speak.

Andy Robinson

It was a great try from Mark Cueto and then a completely different try when Lewis Moody was driven over.

Fadel Gheit

It's a normal pullback after a sharp rise that was driven more by speculation than fundamentals.

Maria Edgeworth

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Scott Owens

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

Les Moonves

There is a genuine question whether people are going to want to pay $12 a month for (Howard Stern).

Chris Eigeman

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

Pat Hill

It was a great process and learning experience. I think it speaks volumes about the quality of our program at Fresno State. With the schemes we run and type of young men who come through our program, it's a great testament to our overall program that several NFL teams had a genuine interest.

Ephraim Sneh

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Keeley Hawes

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

Maripol

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

Eric Fellner

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

Chris Sherman

We are starting to see some genuine differentiation between the major players.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Troy Diels

A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will.

Jim Sullivan

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Tyson Chandler

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place at the wrong time For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme On the wrong day of the wrong week I used the wrong method with the wrong technique Wrong

Winslow Homer

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Iker Casillas

I thank Manchester for their interest but I want to remain here.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

William J. Clinton

There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that's out there.

William J. Clinton

Constant conflict is actually often good politics, because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at Election Day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

Sarah Palin

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Sarah Palin

Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk. To just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

Sarah Palin

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

Sara Cox

To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change.

Rhys Ifans

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

Richard Rorty

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Robert Caro

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Robert Caro

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

Matt McGorry

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

Van Jones

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

Diane Horning

I'm not trying to malign the construction workers, but this is not what they're trained to do.

Jan Adams

It's like a train wreck. They can't look away.

Kristanna Loken

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

Kerry Bishe

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Matt Barr

'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.