Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eli Broad

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

We always tried to be sensitive with the land acquisition proposals. All the land is acquired for Gilmore School and the Magnet School, which was a much larger land acquisition and was to be our Renaissance Project.

Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

John Martin

We have acquired property in Tyler with the thought of expanding our branch network there.

When completed, this acquisition will expand our salvage auction business into the mid-Atlantic region. It's a good fit for Impact's expansion strategy in that it allows us to enter as a market leader with the only salvage auction physically located in northeast Pennsylvania, as well as filling in our coverage area between recently acquired salvage auctions located across Ohio and our existing strong presence in the country's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Khalil Gibran

The Real me is mute, it is the acquired that is talkative.

UBS acquired the property because it's in a densely populated area and has a strong roster of tenants. We see it as a long-term stable investment.

Clint Hurdle

With respect to the privacy of himself and his family, I'm not going to make any comment on his condition, other than the fact we believe it's in his best interest to put him on the disabled list. The doctors acquired all the information they needed.

Carrying out this policy of promoting harmony among competing lines, the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad early in 1900 acquired a working control of the Reading Company, which in turn controlled the New Jersey Central and dominated the anthracite coal traffic.

Hunter S. Thompson

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

During the fourth quarter our revenue growth was driven by a combination of fleet expansion and improved revenue per mile. We benefited from opening new service centers, increasing service in existing centers, and a full quarter of revenue from Edwards Bros. , which we acquired in August 2005.

Brent Scowcroft

compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein had acquired nuclear-weapons capability.

Companies who have acquired these rights of course deserve to be protected against this so-called 'ambush marketing' by free-riders.

Jared Diamond

Science is often misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

These content companies go in and out of consolidation phases. There are periods when they go independent, and periods where they're acquired by bigger conglomerates. This is one of those periods.

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

Also, students have moved away from home, where they have acquired some immunity to the bugs around them, and into accommodation shared with people from all over the country and abroad, where they will come into contact with a new pool of potential infections.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.

Jon Daniels

There is no trade or pending trade despite reports to the contrary and we expect him to be here this year and at a minimum, next year. Since we acquired him from the Yankees, there has been endless speculation about where he might be headed. We have been consistent in saying that he is a piece of the puzzle we are putting together.

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

They need more personnel and they need more assets, ... Not only have they acquired more tasks, but the order and magnitude of those tasks is multiplying exponentially.

EMC has acquired Smarts (an event automation and network systems management software vendor), but we don't see them as a competitor...although it is one of the companies we watch very closely in terms of what their long-term ambitions could be.

BMW has lost something like $6 billion since they acquired Rover, and they are getting rid of something that has been losing $2 million a day and been a specific problem in terms of the drag on management time.

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

Vigilance is justifiably high. We know there is a certain exposure from information acquired in Italy and abroad.