Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Volpe

Any fee that the county implements, it's passed onto the home buyer. When you tack on fees or you tack on taxes, all that does is raise the price of affordable housing.

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

John Lawrence

As people move to more affordable housing closer to work, it?s simply just a matter of supply and demand. They build more houses in Forsyth County because there is more available land.

Todd Stitzer

As painful as these changes may be, Dr Pepper/Seven Up cannot afford a 'business as usual' attitude given our mission to manage for value,

Bill Walton

As our business was growing, when we took over the shop, our plan to start paying the taxes didn't work. We didn't get up to where we were making enough money to afford the taxes.

Skip Holtz

As in any game, one of the first things we have to do is take care of the football offensively. We can't afford to give them (Duke) a short field to work on each time they get the ball.

Mike Ward

That was a big run. They are a very good basketball team. We couldn't afford to give them that kind of run.

Scott Browne

Prices for boxed beef paid by grocery stores continue in the range of $150 to $155 per hundredweight. Packers can afford to continue to pay good prices for cattle.

Orlando McGuire

As Cro-Magnon as it sounds, the problem with attitudes is some people have just never had their ass kicked -- and I don't mean necessarily in the physical sense.

Stan Bergman

As always, our main goal is to go out and compete with a positive attitude and to have a good experience.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Bob Melvin

Randy seems to have come in here with a different attitude this year. He's thrown the ball well both times he's been out there and today was as good as I've seen him throw.

Sufjan Stevens

program. ''It puts us in the attitude of respect for our audience. I think it's important on every level to have a kind of attitude of unification in some way. . . . I don't really have that naturally. I'm not a great performer, so we have to do everything we can, do the exercises, to prepare.

Kemper Freeman

People over here are used to saying what don't we have or should have and working on getting it. There's good spirit and attitude from people who think this is important.

Chuck D.

People talk to him about the NBA all of the time. It's probably not fair, but I talked to him about it. He has the size and the talent to do it, but it is going to come down to attitude and it is obvious that Josh has the right one.

Derek Sonderland

People had them picked to win it all. You can't measure the attitude and heart of the kids.

Brad Miller

Defensively, it's been night and day. He's brought an attitude that's rejuvenated our spirits.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Rose McCaulay

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Thomas Sharp

That's where we really have a traffic flow that the road cannot handle now. The sections in between, quite honestly, can handle the traffic flow -- don't need to have new capacity added.

Seiji Maehara

Prime Minister Koizumi is making comments as if there is no problem but...he cannot escape moral responsibility.

Angus Campbell

Profit taking cannot be ruled out, especially if oil prices head north.

Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Roy Coates

Our seniors have experienced so much, including two championships. They have become so experienced and have a lot to offer to the other girls. There's always talent out there - talent is easy to find, but the personality and the leadership of these girls cannot be replaced.

Julia Huff

Other browsers may work well with the version we are using now, but they have not been tested. Because of our tight schedule and resources, we cannot do that testing now.

David Kelly

Reading the minutes carefully, I don't think it really changes my view or the market's view of where the Fed was.

Brian Palmer

Programs have responded to guidelines by making changes to residents' schedules without appropriate staffing, so some of the work has been put onto medical students.

Aaron McGruder

Our show is not 'Family Guy,' ... The element of race changes everything.

Brian Cumming

Our concern is that human industrialization could be a trigger for extreme climate changes on a global scale in the future.

Christopher Cox

Our disclosure rules haven't kept pace with changes in the marketplace.

Elizabeth Ward

People don't make these choices in a vacuum. We need to make environmental and community changes to encourage people to make healthier choices.

Ian Russell

Once we had made the strategic decision to sell PacifiCorp, which changes significantly the shape and scale of the group, it was necessary to review our management, operating and cost structures for the continuing businesses,

Erwin Chemerinsky

dramatically changes the dynamics of the Roberts confirmation.

Lloyd Carr

Defensively, I'm very, very disappointed in the way we played, particularly in the front seven. I don't think we played well at all up there. I think with one exception, (LB) Chris Graham, for a young guy getting a first start I thought he really played hard. He made a lot of plays. We're just not where we need to be. We need to play harder. We need to play more physical. That is our intent. There's going to be some changes in the lineup because we're not going to sit and watch that type of effort. We need to play harder, we need to play tougher.

Zhang Guobao

Any slightest fluctuation could drive speculations on the oil price.

John Walsh

As far as tourist season, we plan our projects to minimize impact ... because you're driving 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles a day through our office,

Jim Burns

As dry as it was, I don't think it will hurt anything.

Paul Dana

As a young driver, you dream about an opportunity like this with a championship-caliber team.

Darren Kimball

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Dido Armstrong

At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.

Martha Thomas

A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Julie Klausner

Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

Dave Robinson

A worse drought than we have seen recently may loom in our future.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

Lillian Koller

The money is so flexible, so broad. But it's a limited amount. While it seems a lot, given all our needs and services, it goes fast.

Mick Durham

Defensively he's also making great strides. No question he's given us a lift offensively.

Jim Beaver

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Anthony Crescenzi

Any money given to seniors probably would get spent and therefore help the economy.

Carlos Delgado

The situation with the Marlins, getting rid of some of their players, has given me a great opportunity in New York,

Nicolas Massu

These matches in the Latin American Tour have always given me luck. But I still need to take one more step.

Larry Rothschild

The second round is important for us to get him ready and that he keeps progressing. I have nothing to say about it, but I would like him to get a start. Some consideration has to be given to that. If not, then we have to reconsider what's going on. After the first round I need to find out what's going on with him.

Jim Hopson

We did find ourselves in a position of having to go back and manage our customers' expectations.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to give Freddie a rest whenever we can, we saw this as an opportunity the other day and we will be monitoring it as this tour and the summer progresses. We will manage it on a game-by-game basis.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Larry Gagosian

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Debbie Breen

He thinks he's the manager of the toy department.

H. Hunt

Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.

O. Singh

Just had to manage your game, be very smart and be patient.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Susan Mitchell

These recent seizures demonstrate that our officers are aggressively and effectively pursuing our traditional mission of narcotics interdiction.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Geoff Hoon

to do so would risk the operational security of the mission and potentially the safety of our forces.

Philippe Perrin

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

Don Kelly

We are going to be here until the mission is complete,

John Phillips

You have to think of staffing in terms of the mission. And if the mission is working within the community, those positions are justified.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Jacques Chirac

At such a painful time, words are really powerless,

Tom Waits

Commercials are an unnatural use of my work, ... It's like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.

Dustin Hoffman

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

Anne Bishop

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life

Sylvia Browne

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

Tom Clancy

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.

Bill Cosby

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.