Famous Quotes & Sayings

This whole story is based on nothing is black and white.

Kristina Groves

This whole medal count is, in my opinion, not really in the spirit of the Olympic Games. It just kind of has evolved that way and countries seem to derive some kind of satisfaction or disappointment based on the medal count. I have no control over that. It's a big risk to go and put yourself out there, in front of the world, to either fail or succeed.

This resolution is politically motivated since it is not based on any legal or technical grounds. The course of diplomacy was stopped by certain states and it is not clear that, following this resolution, how and where it could be resumed.

Regis McKenna

There has been an enormous profusion of companies. Innovation has developed so rapidly in Silicon Valley beginning with the semiconductor base that we now see maybe 50 different categories of industries here representing over 5,000 different companies.

Vladimir Putin

The reinforcement of the military base in Kant is a priority of our cooperation. We are interested in building up its resources.

When Congress gets involved with creating legislation based on technology, they often write legislation that is way overbroad and that pulls in things that are innocent and makes them illegal.

Jennifer Lee

When I signed up for Google Plus, it recommended 500 people for me to invite. You know, and once I invited those 500 people I got another 500 people. So it has a huge install base that it can start from.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is now a good friend of mine, and the way he would engage with his customers and greet them personally.

We said going in that we hoped the scoring system would make for a competitive day. It did that. ... Maybe it's a fair system, who knows what's for sure fair and what isn't. ... But, based on the score, I would say it's a pretty fair system.

Ben Bernanke

We're much more data-driven. We need to continually re-evaluate our forecasts and think about the prospects for the economy and make our decisions based on what the information is that's coming into our hands.

We're trying to change the image of the university with our football structure, and a lot of people believe in that. But we aren't talking to a lot of basketball fans and baseball fans and people who would support other sports as well. I want to get to an enhanced facility improvement plan to help all of our teams.

We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.

We kind of believe that will help establish a base price for both as we go into the future.

We kept things pretty basic and just stayed in our base package. This was just about playing football and letting the coaches see who could make plays.

Ozzie Guillen

We thought he had a good secondary lead so Joey (Cora, third base coach) took a chance and sent him. It took a good throw like that to get him.

We thought about me making a donation based off the number of goals or points I scored, but I told them I don't have that many stats to make a good donation, so I decided I'd just make it a lump sum.

We think those companies have both a strong regulated base with which to grow from, but also will do well in the deregulation area, making a lot of money there as well. We're looking at some great strong power price fundamentals for the next couple of years; they just look excellent.

We think this will be a big boost for baseball in China and it will help promote a sport that has been neglected.

We think the largest emerging threat is very different. Today's threats are not based on notoriety, but on profit." ()

We think the concern is well-founded, and that's not based on a prediction that inflation will be higher in the future, but we find that the impact of inflation is often underestimated in the planning process. Small numbers have a big impact over longer-term horizons.

Ricky Rudd

We're real pleased with that, ... There is nothing there for the guys to hang their head about.  We came off the truck fast and only made a few changes to the car.  It started in the spring race with a new car built for this race track. We had a good solid run and I don't think the car has been run since then. Our car will be good on long race runs.  I'm more excited about the race than qualifying based on the long runs.

We're pursuing the girls' civil rights, their right to be free from discrimination based on their perceived sexual orientation.

Why should we pay if we're not culpable of anything? They're trying to hold the taxpayers responsible, and based on the media reports I've seen, there has been no link.

Frank Robinson

Why put the burden on baseball to try and figure out where to go, and maybe put an asterisk? Just wipe the whole thing out.

Why did Sen. Frist suddenly decide to sell the stock in June after holding the stock for so long? Also, did the Senator order the sale based on insider knowledge that the value of the stock was about to decline precipitously?

Garret Anderson

Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.

Andrew Ference

We've come this far this year and built a solid base with the guys in the room . . .

John Reed

We've certainly seen some improvement in 2005. Based on what our clients are telling us, we're expecting more of the same for 2006.

Pat Summitt

We've built this fan base not on scheduling patsies. We've built it on bringing in the top opponents throughout the country from a lot of conferences and our fans deserve that. We also think that to be the best you have to play the best.

To me, that win wasn't so much based on talent, but on the heart and guts of the kids. Especially where we had to come from behind and had to deal with that. With all of that emotion, to pull out that win I think says a lot about those kids, about who they are as people. I'm very proud of them right now.

Nicholas Kristof

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

Guy Kawasaki

When I saw that the mouse was the controlling thing and there was graphics moving all over and it wasn't character based ... it was a religious experience. Definitely, the scales were removed from my eyes. ... I became a believer in 30 seconds.

Bill Janklow

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.