Famous Quotes & Sayings

We upgraded Compaq because we see clear signs of a turnaround beginning to gain traction with good pick-up in business momentum.

We should not be talking about the reusability of masks or other devices until we know whether they actually work to begin with.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

Alfred Hershey

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

Anatoli Boukreev

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

Andrew Motion

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Dario Argento

I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.

Bob Balaban

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

Bob McNair

As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

Bobby Keys

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

Dwyane Wade

This was an exciting game from beginning to end. Both teams were getting out running and scoring at will.

David Poile

This was an equal opportunity training camp. Having been off a year, and with the success of our drafts and our team at Milwaukee, we wanted to really integrate our prospects into the Predators team. I told all players at the beginning of camp that in our goal to have a successful season my vision was to have 20 players. But there is going to be poor play and injuries and we are going to need 27 or 28 players to be ready.

This was a much needed win and I was very happy with the effort that the guys gave tonight. We just came out and played very hard from the beginning of the game.

This was a great team effort all the way around. We played so well together and executed our game plan. We wanted to pressure them from the very beginning and that's exactly what we did.

This was a great meet for us. The distance runners really pushed the envelope in their respective races and the relay teams show signs of beginning to gel. I couldn't be happier.

The paperwork began in August. Every day I would see her coming to me with an application and I would say, 'Here's my early bird again.' That was my nickname for her.

The panic has been so great that the number of requests for vaccines to be sent to regions has begun to grow in geometric progression.

This recall is turning around. People are beginning to see how unfair it is, and how harmful it is to California's economy and to our people. And in recent days serious allegations have surfaced with respect to the governor's opponent. We should all give this serious consideration. This governor was fairly elected -- he does not deserve to be recalled.

Daniel Kim

This should be the beginning of the industry consolidation, not the end.

Helen Rowland

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

The petitioner was held in a sealed underground cell, with no windows and no way to escape the poison chemicals that were pumped into his cell (ostensibly to kill cockroaches.) The petitioner's throat swelled up from the chemicals; he could not breathe. He began to choke. He vomited. His eyes swelled shut. He began shaking and was in great pain. His head began to throb. He lost consciousness. Before he passed out, he pleaded with the guards to remove him from his cell but they refused. The petitioner suffered from severe headaches, nausea and dizziness for weeks after this episode. It is not clear if there has been permanent damage to his respiratory system.

There are a lot of them in every county. They are such an important part of the past and the present. I often think a community that doesn't take care of its dead wouldn't be a good place to live. They may be the only vestiges left of a community begun during, say, the Reconstruction period.

There are 100 more teams playing now than when the team began with 10.

When you have a kid that hits two home runs and that's really the difference in the game, and you're struggling to get back from the beginning of the game, it's tough.

When you don't have to shoot anything from more than three or four feet, you better win. We couldn't stop them from the beginning and when we got in foul trouble, it was worse.

The prevailing sentiment is shame. I beg PSG fans to forgive us for our performance.

Tony Meola

We've got to get points out of this, ... Just like the playoffs, if you play at home first, you've got to win. That's the way we have to look at it. We had a great week of training, I thought. A really hard week, especially in the beginning of the week. It seems like forever since we played a game and I think everyone's ready.

We've got the very beginning stages of a lot of things. These aren't mature technologies. But some of the student projects are ones that we really expect to grow and become important resources for Athens. And really the most exciting thing is the businesses, the government, the students consider this to be a community resource and they're excited about it.

John Sexton

There came a moment after literally weeks of conversation, ... that both Myles and I began to see a framework... It brought us to a point where there was really a victory without defeat.

There is a clash between growth needs and the park ethic to preserve land in perpetuity for future generations. It's beginning to look like the inalienable right to enjoy natural resources isn't so inalienable.

When Coach Weber put 'St. Louis' on the chalkboard at the beginning of the year, ... so did we.

Michael Morpurgo

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.