Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Alice Krige

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

Orville Wright

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

John Schuerholz

We could not have acquired a more perfect player for us than Edgar Renteria.

We began systems integration in the fourth quarter and expect to complete integration of Harrah's customer-relationship capabilities -- our Total Rewards player-loyalty program and revenue- and yield-management systems -- into the Caesars properties in April 2006. Based upon our experience with other acquired properties, we anticipate these capabilities will enable the Caesars facilities to benefit from increased market share and visitation.

Hamish Bowles

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Hamish Bowles

After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

The one thing that Qwest has is its local franchise, and over the next two years it's going to become increasingly embattled as (cable company) Comcast starts rolling out more aggressively with their digital voice service. I don't think they get acquired at all.

While hormone resistance can likely be acquired in multiple ways, it appears we may have uncovered a general contributor to hormone resistance in prostate cancer.

Rocco Buttiglione

Without question, we will ask for the return of all pieces acquired on the black market. When the proof is certain, we will demand it. We are already imposing huge pressure. And not only on the Getty,

With the closing of this acquisition, PMC-Sierra now has a broad storage semiconductor product line with more integrated end-to-end solutions for our enterprise storage customers. We have acquired a highly skilled team and are moving quickly to integrate our operating and development efforts so that we can provide customers with innovative storage solutions while at the same time improving the overall profitability of the acquired business.

Eli Broad

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

Khalil Gibran

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

David F. Houston

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Larry Beinfest

When Jeffrey Loria said publicly not too long after we acquired Paul that he was not a summer rental, he meant it.

While technical and clinical information is acquired through a residency program, we are basically committed to a lifetime of ongoing education.

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

The government's approach to demobilization allows paramilitary commanders to put on a show of disarming some troops, ... But the government has not truly attempted to dismantle their mafia-like networks, seize their illegally acquired fortunes or ensure a full cessation of abuses.

We basically focused on the 9-acre parcel the Nation acquired in October because that's the only piece currently under the Nation's control.

Isaac Hanson

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

A. R. Rahman

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Christopher Nolan

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Seamus Heaney

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

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.

When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

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.

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.

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.