Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Factor

The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the beginning of this year and, more importantly, a more than threefold increase above the stock's $25 per share initial public offering value in 2002.

Joel Sawyer

The fact that the House is now talking about spending caps is certainly a step forward compared with what they were talking about last week. But the real question for us is always where does the money above and beyond the cap go?

Rob Murray

We have a very, very young team with some good senior leaders. I thought coming into today that we could finish in the high forties, but we performed above what I thought we were capable of and that's a testament to the athletes on this team.

Bob Hill

We haven't had a power forward here since (Shawn) Kemp who can run and jump and play above the rim like he does.

Alice Walker

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Allen Adamson

The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.

David Harman

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value. Above that it was too expensive.

David Harman

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value, ... Above that it was too expensive.

Pat Morelli

(Sell and Hennessy) make moves you don't see in high school girls hockey. They're a notch above everyone else.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Reed Sorenson

I think the main challenge will be running 800 miles every weekend, but I'm looking forward to it. I think I needed to run both, just being a (Busch series) rookie last year. There'll be times when I wish I hadn't done it, but I needed to do it so I'll live with the decision.

Yves Brun

The challenge will be to produce large quantities of this glue without it sticking to everything that is used to produce it.

Matt Smyth

The challenge to the Internet pioneers that are out there is getting the swing voters looking at the Internet - the people who aren't engaged in politics through the traditional mediums.

Michael Carty

The challenge for stocks next week is going to be getting through more Iraq news.

Justin Timberlake

I wanted to wait for the right opportunity. There's no shortcuts, and I responded to the challenge of working with someone like Morgan (Freeman).

Daron Schoenrock

It's going to be another challenge for our guys. Southern Miss is probably the hottest team in the league right now, probably hotter than Rice.

Jesse Jackson

He does not want to eat in fact on the table of those who would kill him,

Al Visconti

These kids could all grow up and be rich and eat lobster the rest of their lives. And nothing will taste better than those french fries.

Bill Clarke

You don't have to pack and unpack and pay a lot of money to stay in hotels or eat out, and you are surrounded by nature instead of a hot, sterile parking lot.

Steve Davies

You don't have to be a millionaire to eat like a millionaire, thanks to our new Buttered Lobster Bites. What better person to share that message than America's newest everyday-citizen-turned-millionaire?

Chris Kenny

It's not exactly what you want to eat before practice, but we figured we'd do that, then practice, then go back to the hotel.

Nate Harris

It's been good for me. It kind of settles you down. You get more regular sleep and eat better. Since she's involved in athletics, she understands the travel and what goes into it.

Irish Proverb

It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.

Stewart Fishman

It was okay. It was what I was used to. But I missed having places nearby where everything was kosher, where I could eat meat dishes, where I didn't have to scan the labels or investigate the recipes.

Chuck Amato

It's what they eat the night before (that's important).

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Pete Carroll

It has never been a focus of our program to look at the end of the rainbow kind of thing.

Rod Barnes

I think our kids are working hard. My focus is to make sure we move forward and get better.

Mike Commodore

I think our focus is very good on the road. We don't have any distractions. We stick to our systems, we keep it simple. I think that's why. Maybe it's something else, I don't know, but when it comes right down to it, it's our focus.

David Ortiz

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I get in trouble when I try to do too much. It happens to everybody.

Lindsay McCargar

I just don't think our focus was there (on the game).

Cindy Sheehan

I put myself out there, and I'm willing to take it. But I think the focus has been on the messenger and not the message.

Charlie Bell

By keeping our focus on our customers, McDonald's competitive position is strengthening, ... McDonald's U.S. performance for the month and quarter was particularly impressive considering the hurricanes and heavy rains.

Larry Silverstein

Clearly, there are some issues that need to be resolved. But for today, my focus, like that of all New Yorkers, is on getting the Freedom Tower underway.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Mario Monti

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Lewis Thompson Preston

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

Leigh Steinberg

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

John Keegan

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Puff Daddy

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

Lester Bangs

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Paracelsus

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

John Dewey

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

John Dewey

Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Mahatma Gandhi

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Mahatma Gandhi

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

James Joyce

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

George Farquhar

How a little love and good company improves a woman.