Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Harvey

Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.

Chris Pine

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.

LZ Granderson

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

Fergie

For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.

Fabiola Gianotti

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

Gautam Adani

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

We knew we didn't wrestle well the first time we saw them. The kids had wanted High Point to win (against Central Regional in the semifinals). They got them and they wrestled like they wanted it.

Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County,

Mitch Miller

We're stopping 97 per cent of the fires.

Blake Shelton

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

Islam Karimov

We understand that Russia has always been and will remain a stronghold for us and a central ally,

Shimon Peres

We should take 4 or 5 per cent, and we shall give 4 or 5 per cent elsewhere ... in order to reach an agreement.

Wal-Mart has experienced lots of disasters because they have stores and distribution centers in Florida, and they've figured out how to do it.

Stephen Hawking

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Boris Trajkovski

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

Bjorn Lomborg

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Andrew Motion

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Action Bronson

I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

This will be totally unique to any other center in South Florida, ... It'll be the hub of programming countywide. There will be a great emphasis on the space and the way it looks, but also all the programming we intend to do, including technology for children, teens and adults. In my view, it'll really pull it all together. It will be a great steppingstone for the future.

Ron Clarke

The parking lots of the hotels around Jackson were jammed with various vehicles - power companies, county ambulances, relief trucks like ours, FEMA vehicles, fire and rescue trucks. FEMA was controlling all of the hotel rooms. It was kind of exciting, being at the center of the relief effort.

There are long faces here in the control center and around the site. Everybody was so looking forward to flying today.

When you look at any shopping center these days, the risk issue is significant. Except maybe at Fashion Valley.

We've got three guys that practice there and are dead even, but when you get out there on center stage, you've got to perform.

This whole issue is still front and center for us.

There has to be concern about sustainability of growth overseas; Japan is central to that issue, ... If people are looking at fundamentals, that's the only news they have to look at this morning.

Lawrence Summers

There has not been a time in the last century where there has been so much misunderstanding of the US and so much misunderstanding by the US of the world,

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

There is a 12-cent per gallon normal retail markup. But usually, the profit margin is about two cents a gallon.

When I see 200 kids from all over Volusia County occupying all 24 courts at the Florida Tennis Center on Friday nights, I get excited about the future of this sport.