Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Goodstein

The X Prize is about changing paradigms. The current paradigm is that it's perfectly acceptable to drive a car that only gets 20 or 30 miles per gallon. This prize is about leveraging cash and opportunity to effect positive change in the environment, economy and geopolitics.

Adam Nelson

Five fouls is not acceptable at this level,

Rafael Marquez

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

Carla Johnson

We're dialing 911. We cannot pay you to protect our water and have you use it to destroy our water ... We simply don't find it acceptable to have the solution to our 911 call be PR campaigns and pitting us against each other.

Jenny Robinson

There?s no acceptable circumstance to put a child unprotected in your car, and it?s a terrible shame someone this famous, who could have set an example, did not do so.

Christine Karbowiak

The tone is constructive. We remain hopeful that the progress will lead us to reach agreements acceptable to all parties.

Ruth Collins

We've put together the medically acceptable waiting times, the maximum time patients should be waiting. So we've done the work for them,

Monica Lewinsky

took to the Senate floor to denounce the president's conduct as immoral and harmful because 'it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family.'

Tim O'Leary

We had supply problems throughout 2005, worsening an already difficult situation. At the same time, terms and conditions to secure more silicon were aggressive and not acceptable to Shell. The silicon dependence of crystalline will remain a challenge to the industry and as such Shell has decided to focus on next-generation technologies.

Dave Band

You're the love of my life and the breath in my prayers. Take my hand and lead me there.. what I need is you here. I can't forget the taste of your mouth from your lips all the heavens pour out. I can't forget when we are one. With you alone I am free.

Kenneth Williams

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Granth Sahib

Embellished and immaculate is that place where the Saints gather together. He alone finds shelter, who has met the Perfect Guru.

Kathleen Jenkins

Every gang member that I have worked with is enamored by the hip-hop culture and the lifestyles of this genre's rich and famous. It is common for youths to emulate these rap artists by wearing similar gangster-type clothing. This alone is not concerning. The concern evolves when the behavior and attitude begin to go as south as the pants. Certain rap artists tout their criminal history, gang affiliation and their fortune of surviving gun battles. It becomes a concern, when dealing with a very troubled individual that is consumed by the gang mentality.

A. Milne

Wolfson specializes in this particular area. We focus only on the analogue and mixed signal area; we don't do the stand alone digital technology.

Walter Dellinger

This verdict should not stand. There are at least five major issues that we will raise in the court of appeals. Any one of them standing alone would be a basis for reversal. Together, they make a strong case that the trial was unfair.

Bob Bradley

When I talk about the mentality and how we play and how we're organized, all of that has to work so that now in the midfield we are harder to play against. It's not enough to think that we're good with the ball and that alone will win every game. We want to continue to be good with the ball but that must work now collectively.

James Mercer

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

Jonathan Maberry

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Chipper Jones

I've seen a guy who may or may not pinch hit in the eighth or ninth inning pop two before the game and another in the fifth inning. It's part of their pre-game ritual. Some guys have to have it.

Lindsay Davenport

I've played four matches in New Haven, four matches here, so it's been eight matches in two weeks. Hopefully that's enough matches,

Danny Peitz

I've been waiting two months to get to this race. I've been saying the mile and an eighth can't get here fast enough for this horse.

Todd Spanier

This is great for an eighth grader in an event like the shot put.

Ryan Ghere

You're happy with the tie because you were down by two with eight minutes to go, but you're not happy that you score five goals and only get a tie. Give our girls credit. We never quit.

Mike Flaherty

We're holding teams to less than 40 points, on average, during the last eight games.

Patrick Darby

We're happy from the standpoint we have eight in the semifinals and everyone is still alive. Everybody has shown pretty good enthusiasm.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Lori Nelson

As a company, we're more focused on finishing Red Rock Resort than any of our future projects.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Tom Chicantek

Cody had a nice overall season, finishing with a 17-11 record.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Adrian Pilz

This gives you an idea of the mentality going on inside this bank.

Julie Futch

This gives us motivation for the next game.

Mark Jensen

This gives everyone a lift on and off the pitch. Whether Shearer wants the job in the long term, we'll have to wait and see.

Jennifer Warnes

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Suzanne Isidor

When I look at it on paper, it can look scary, but watching them play every day gives me confidence.

Jerry York

Cory gives us a great presence in goal. When you have him back in the net, it allows you to do a lot of positive things.

Sara Tervo

You look at computers, you look at phones ... technology gives every business, including foundations, a way to grow and offer solutions.

Gang Four

Nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn.

Lisa Abron

Now we've got to pray and hope somebody gives us a wildcard.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

Carin Koch

I didn't putt like I did yesterday, but the greens were beautiful. If you get it on the right line, the right speed, the greens are really true. They'll go in.

Wayne Smith

Had results been fair, it is possible that we may have even seen a different government. The Liberals, NDP and Greens represent a majority, and together they would have held a majority of seats.

Ryan Palmer

They're like new greens ? they're not thick underneath, so in the afternoon, you can get some bumpy putts.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Jim Calhoun

The other night, if we had played him 28, 29 minutes, he would have had over 40 points. And I'm not sure he would have missed a 3.

Matt Moore

With JT and Yve back there, it's going to be a big help. They are interchangeable. JT is a different runner, and he's bigger. We missed him Saturday. He's a threat back there.

Mike Aronson

We missed out on our opportunities in the first half. Fortunately, so did they. And then we were able to get going.

Edward Castro

We missed Mario. Without him, we were not able to press like we wanted to.

Fred Thompson

We missed him, but I don't think the outcome would have been any different.

Troy Vincent

We missed a ton of tackles. I don't think we're pressing. But we didn't give the offense enough opportunities.

Rick Geiser

We missed a lot of shots. We never got our offense going the whole night.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Jack Roush

He proved he could keep a truck or racing vehicle off the wall.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Didier Deschamps

Over the two legs, PSV proved they were a better side than us. They are a strong and solid team.

Gerry Harvey

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

Dan Ariely

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

Amy Tan

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Vin Diesel

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

John Stott

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Graeme Smith

Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Rickey Henderson

Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.