Famous Quotes & Sayings

Indra Nooyi

Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.

With productivity up and inflationary pressures muted, the Federal Reserve Board elected this week not to change a key short-term interest rate. Moreover, most other economic data releases, such as unemployment and manufacturing, painted a slightly negative picture for future economic growth. These factors combined to keep mortgage rates stable.

Adrian Fenty

The problem is that the two sides didn't have enough sitting-down time to work out what are the needs of the charter schools and what space is open to them. If we have the Board of Education continuing to make decisions without the charter schools, this will continue to happen.

Barbara Park

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

Bayard Taylor

There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

Georgina Chapman

Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection.

I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.

Bindi Irwin

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.

With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

Edward Rutherfurd

I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.

Ella Eyre

I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'

We knew we had to slow the game down and control the boards and we did that. Tonight we made a game out of it from the first minute. We're disappointed.

We left points on the board in the first half. We should have had the lead at the half. With a fragile team, you can't do that. A halftime lead is an important thing.

We left a lot on the board today. Free throws and turnovers are problem number one but when a team shoots that well you have to give them credit.

Bill Belichick

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

Clark Gregg

I'm not secretly on the board of Marvel.

This will be the key issue of the discussion during a meeting under the IAEA Board of Governors.

This was a long time coming. The board showed a lot of patience. This is huge for the community. There is no prettier piece property that I know of.

Jim Nelson

This was a huge win for us. We got contributions from all 10 players. Coming into the game we knew that we had to focus on the boards and we did, out-rebounding them 38-22.

The park board voted that it makes some sense to have it at Evergreen because we have some synergy with services already provided by the library and (a neighborhood) city hall.

When you have got someone who is such a great player and very good on-field leader, it is always a very big decision to make. But in the circumstances, our board thought it was the appropriate thing to do.

There are 31 crew on board the Taruman of Chilean, Ukrainian, Russian, Peruvian and Spanish nationality,

Doug Phillips

We made a choice to center everything around Inteltheir name, support and everything they stand forand then they say we can't sell you boards anymore.

We've got to get more second-chance opportunities. We've tried to stress taking care of the ball, playing together and crashing the boards offensively.

We've got to do a better job of controlling the boards and not giving people so many second, third, fourth and fifth chances.

We've just got to get a little better driving in runs. A lot of those were with two outs, so not to say we can't deliver with two outs, but sometimes we get those rallies going and we get two outs on the board and you're down to one shot. A lot of them were with two outs tonight.

The recommendation from the current boards is when it is financially feasible ... pursue building at that time. It is not funded right now.

There have been so many small victories I've been able to do because I have kids actually in school. I bring a perspective on the board that's needed and welcomed.

The reason we wanted to incorporate a secure chat room and a bulletin board is to create a safe site where the teens can talk to each other.

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

John Travolta

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.