Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

Dylan Jones

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

Mike Pereira

Nobody wants to be called the No Fun League. But we also don't want it to be ridiculous. We have to balance in here that kids do emulate what our players do. What we deem to be acceptable is not acceptable on other levels, like high school and college.

Brian Heidel

More and more urban families are employing children to work in their homes. It is disappointing that these people, who have high levels of education and good incomes, do not recognize this as something that is not acceptable in modern society.

Dave Byron

Now that the rules have been changed, it does change the way these events can be put on. It's not as easy and it's not as clear-cut as to what is the acceptable thing to do, so I think people are trying to err on the side of extreme caution.

Peter Conte

Obviously we are disappointed that we were unable to reach an acceptable solution through the course of mediation in the past two days,

Joelle McGinnis

Given the fact we're a public agency, we don't find it acceptable to have a loss at all. Our violation system now should serve as a deterrent.

David Newman

Given that the accuracy and reliability of the call is our primary goal on this, we will move forward only when an acceptable system is identified.

Leah Crowley

Girls from the neighborhood who are 10 to 11 are great mother's helpers, and using them makes for great babysitter training. They learn your children's behaviors and personalities under your supervision, so they learn what is acceptable and how discipline is handled.

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Dan Miceli

I've been around young guys. I guess I get along in the clubhouse and with the bullpen guys. If I can help them in any kind of way, I will.

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Jane Asher

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.

Naomi Cooke

Sorry, I won't give away the climax of the show. Just come along and see.

Shawn Amos

Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway theatrics suddenly became standard for a 'concert.'

Steve Johnson

Somewhere along the way, maybe at Jamestown, America decided the sales figures were going to matter more than the product.

Casey Wilson

Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.

Mike Degory

Coach is trying to instill core values, trust. We're becoming more of a team. Eight months ago, it wasn't really like this. Will it pay off in September? I hope so.

Hamse Warfa

So you are becoming their problem solver. You go and hear all of their problems.

Christina Norman

We're always looking to inject excitement and energy into the show and Miami has a lot to offer. As far as celebrities, Miami is becoming a destination.

Jim Ewan

We have quite a few new players but they have worked hard. Our region is becoming more difficult, but we feel we are right where we were last season at this time.

James Comey

Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

Barkhad Abdi

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

James A. Forbes

Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.

Ali Babacan

Turkey is on a road that will lead much faster to its becoming a country suiting its potential and riches.

Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

Geno Auriemma

Any time like you have a really good point guard like they do, you have a chance to have a really good team. Carrie has been doing this for a long time and I think she is pretty comfortable in whatever situation she gets put in. She has a really good group of players that are pretty versatile.

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

John Walls

As a customer I'm responsible for my device. I need to know, just like my car keys.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Gary Kelley

Offering Garmin car navigation in Dollar and Thrifty rental vehicles is an ideal fit for everyone involved. Dollar and Thrifty can provide their customers with a convenient and easy-to-use navigation device, and Garmin is able to expose thousands of potential customers to its popular portable GPS navigator.

Daniele Audetto

Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to train the team before our definitive car reaches the track.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Christopher Hill

The Chinese have given us a text to react to, some ideas, so we're looking at those and having some internal discussions and talking with people in Washington,

Margaret Chan

The Chinese government has taken very effective measures, and they are making improvements every month, even every day.

Wu Hailong

The Chinese Government has insisted consistently that the Iranian nuclear issue should be appropriately resolved through negotiations and co-operation within the framework of the IAEA.

Liu Jianchao

The Chinese government has always considered it important to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens from being violated.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Jeffrey Klinefelter

Target's increased emphasis on providing consumers with trend-right merchandise has strengthened the retail chain's presence as a destination for apparel.

Paul Saffo

It will be consumers who will decide those solutions are good ones or not, ... I can guarantee you that Bluetooth will end up having its most important uses being uses that nobody can guess at today.

David Byrne

This is a major breakthrough that will provide consumers with much needed protection and rights,

Michael K. Powell

This market is not collapsing. It is not going to fail over time, ... Communications services remain vital to consumers around the globe.

John Fingleton

This letter was designed to take money from vulnerable consumers by distressing, frightening and misleading them.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Tommy Maddox

I think he's more comfortable with what he's doing, ... He's playing better and better and faster and faster.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Jitin Prasada

In India, because of the huge investments materialising in industry and infrastructure projects, the demand for steel has grown much faster than anticipated.

Philip Currie

The juveniles were faster than the adults they were longer-legged and more lightly built.

Rijkman Groenink

We can't go any faster than we are going right now.

James Gleick

Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.

Rick Maddalena

We got to (the bidders') threshold a little faster than we thought.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Rick Warren

When a human body is out of balance we call that disease.... Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs.... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.

Sam Altman

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

Wendell Berry

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Mac Davis

Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Estelle

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

Michael Six

She's never been in trouble before. She has no record at all.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Mark Zuckerberg

You can be so bad at so many things... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable... you get through all that stuff.

Mark Zuckerberg

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

Margaret Mead

We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.

Marcus Buckingham

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

Marcus Buckingham

Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

Kina Grannis

Being hapa, or more specifically, half-Japanese half-Euro mutt (English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, French, Welsh, German. . .in case you were wondering), has definitely helped shape who I am. It's very cool to get to identify and learn about all these unique cultures and I think it's helped put the world in perspective.

Melissa Etheridge

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.