Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sander Levin

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

Bill Gates

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

We couldn't guard their big kid. Our inexperience in the post really hurt us, and that combined with our inability to make shots ... before you know it, we're down 20.

We followed the race up on the hill, we saw the course, what is necessary for the combined downhill.

The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices,

I think if you combined all the home runs we hit in the last seven years, I don't think it would be as many as we've hit this year.

Felix Gottwald

We're all separate -- cross-country, biathlon, Nordic combined and ski jumping.

We really wanted to make them work hard and I think they got tired. They were losing the game, and with the fatigue combined it's easy to not have positive responses sometimes.

We are trying to diversify by introducing combined events and we think the Commonwealth Games should be a good starting point.

We'll now have data on the three offices combined on one Web site.

Uninspiring results in the core operations, combined with unfavorable exposure to the U.S. dollar make the current fundamental outlook somewhat bleak.

For Richland County, the combined costs for residential, commercial and industrial customers would increase by more than $6 million.

Nicholas Sparks

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined than any number of contemporary novelists-Roberts, King, Koontz, Steel, etc.

Further gains in employment combined with better levels for consumer confidence overall are setting the stage for very solid consumption gains in the first quarter of 2006.

I'd welcome the opportunity to get together in the near future to speculate on methods for pre-empting MSFT (Microsoft) in our combined markets. What say?

Historically, peaks in the U.S. rate cycle combined with rising equity volatility and a moderation in earnings momentum all signal U.S. equity performance.

Jordan probably hasn't scored 19 points in all his games combined this season. He did a good job tonight.

I think it's more of a question of timing. The timing of his development, combined with the development of our team, didn't align.

With more than 25 years of combined pet food manufacturing knowledge, we've made it our No. 1 goal to produce products that are, first and foremost, the healthiest pet foods on the market.

We think between what's in our current pipeline and what we hope is going to be on the market over the next few years, combined with the savings we are going to realize from our efficiency initiation, that we will meet our growth target for the longer term.

Greenspan's confidence in the predictive value of gold (as an inflation indicator) might be high enough that, when combined with other critical predictors . . . could push Greenspan to either hawkish words or action,

He hopes that if he raises rates in December, combined with all this talk, then that would be enough.

Paula Radcliffe

I am excited about the announcement. It is a big step forward for the sport, the events and the athletes, that there has been this united stand from some of the major marathons. The results can be only positive and having experience of three of the events involved, I am convinced that their combined expertise will help the sport immensely.

Alan Mulally

We also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

With their combined knowledge, it's just incredible . . . I'm learning something new every day,

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Tracy Nelson

We did much better this time around than we did last year, thats for sure, ... I think we scored five points - in the two matches combined - last year.

Yesterday's better than expected U.S. housing data combined with resurgent oil prices looks set to leave equities under a degree of pressure.