Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Dugan

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

H. Hart

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Ted Demme

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

Claire Buchan

Well, he's said at least $550 billion. So, as I said, there are a number of ways to work with Congress to try to accomplish this, and we're in the process of doing that right now.

William Thies

Many of the factors that can put our brain health at risk are things we can modify and control. This article points to the possibility that healthier living can significantly contribute to reducing the numbers of sick and mentally declining older people, and reduce healthcare costs. To accomplish that, we need more research to show us which specific combinations of lifestyle choices, and also future therapies, will maintain our brain and emotional health.

Dennis Scott

Many people have asked me what will happen to the company now that Mel is gone. Mel's death does not cause a change in our operation or philosophy. Even though Mel owned the majority of the stock in Eel River Sawmills, there is a plan in place that will transfer the majority of the voting stock to the employees over time. The Mel and Grace McLean Foundation now owns Mel's shares. Eventually, some company shares owned by the Foundation will have to be sold to meet certain regulatory requirements. We have ample time to accomplish this.

Ariel Sharon

Sharon wants to maintain the current political status quo so as to accomplish his objectives out of the pullout from Gaza, including boosting settlement construction, and completing the apartheid, separation wall in the West Bank, particularly around the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Candace Corlett

Service with respect has become the foundation on which store loyalty stands. Women want bargains, to accomplish a lot in one trip, and interesting items, but if the level of service and respect is found wanting, none of that matters.

Alando Tucker

So I see a lot that we have to offer and a lot that we can do and accomplish but it has to be for 40 minutes.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Paul Bell

Dell is clearly a PC company, but increasingly as we go forward, we are more and more of an Internet company. The Internet is part of everything in the way we do business with our customers.

William Rehnquist

Commutation decisions have not traditionally been the business of the courts, ... As such, they are rarely, if ever, appropriate subjects for judicial review.

Kevin Steenberge

Coaches are going to come and go. That's the nature of the business.

David Bailey

Compaq is making incremental steps to improve its business line. But they really have several hurdles going forward.

John Challenger

Companies that simply let these workers go will probably find a significant decline in the level of customer service and may even find some customers taking their business elsewhere.

Vint Cerf

Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee that the Internet remains stable,

Richard Kimball

Say you sold someone a round of drinks for $17.50, ... You'd ring in $7.50, put the $17.50 in (the register), and put a swizzle stick in the drawer as a reminder that the drawer is up by $10. At the end of the night, if you had eight swizzle sticks in there, you'd pocket $80 before closing out your register.

Peter Cardillo

I would not be surprised to see this market register a new high, perhaps closing at a new record high. But then we'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

James Melvin

If he hadn't had a good system of closing the gates, I think the miller could have drained the lake.

Rick Platt

The closing varies from mid to the end of January.

Joel Osteen

Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

Richard Grenier

We need to score a goal in the first half in order to win, ... We were controlling (the play) for a good 15 minutes. We just couldn't put a goal in. Again, credit North Smithfield. They did a good job closing us out on defense at the end of the first half.

Peter Whitney

Try to distract yourself from it. Even if it means closing the shades to your windows. It's the ostrich syndrome. If you can't see it, you don't have to think about it.

Patrick Ryan

no credible evidence to suggest that others were involved.

Eric Knight

There are serious and very credible parties interested.

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Henry Ford

Minicars produce miniprofits.

Marc Ostrofsky

Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

Chris DeWolfe

We have marketing power reach at our fingertips.

Danah Boyd

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Tom Slade

We are as vulnerable as we have been in a number of years. It is not a pretty picture.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Richard Leakey

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Tony Robbins

The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do.

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

Heather Thomas

I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for them to do better than you. He can go on to do what he wants now.

Howard Stern

He was very supportive. I was so pleased that he had called.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

Marc Walters

That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.

David Mitchell

We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution has been reached.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Garry South

The timing was not accidental. There's more to come.

Bill Swain

The timing of this weather is a little unfortunate.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Sylvester Stallone

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

Ratan Tata

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Simon Sinek

No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.

Tom Waits

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

Steve Buyer

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

Ron Paul

The freedom message brings us together, it doesn't divide us.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.