Famous Quotes & Sayings

UT has had a lot of outstanding athletes. We are constantly looking for new ways to recognize these young men for their contributions to our program. This is one way we acknowledge all they have done, and continue to do, for the University.

Mike Holmgren

Usually, when there's contact like that, it's a no-call. But they called it and that's that. That's the way the day went.

Prakash Karat

Usually the party state secretary does not contest elections.

Usually the devil is in the details. With this report, the greatest fear is that details of true labor market conditions will be found over the next couple of months instead of in this report.

Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business, and the propensity is to increase consumer prices.

With the tide turning on job growth, consumer sentiment going into the holidays is far better than last year, even if it's not quite happy days are here again.

Randy Bachman

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life.

Paul Shaffer

I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the recording studio with Phil Spector tops them all. And of course, now he is in prison. I hope to visit him, I still consider him a friend, and what can you say? A terrible way for a guy like that to be remembered.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Piet Mondrian

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Patrice Motsepe

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

Mark McKinnon

It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.

Poe Ballantine

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.

Peter Morgan

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

We've improved every week. We started off with a very tough schedule, but in our recent games instead of backsliding we've continued to improve.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Dave Davies

People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.

With employment gains non-existent, income growth has slowed. As households also become more judicious in taking on more debt, consumer spending will remain soft.

With crude prices forecast to remain strong for the remainder of the year, consumers can expect, on average, higher pump prices than last year.

While information technology products will continue to be the largest market sectors for semiconductors, consumer products will be the major growth-drivers in the years ahead,

Gary Shapiro

While home entertainment continues to be an important segment of the consumer electronics industry, home information has become the largest and fastest growing product group.

With our conference up for grabs, a win like this is just what we needed.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Richard Gordon

With the consumer in control, in order to stimulate demand you have to keep pressure on pricing, which is likely to have the long-term effect of keeping growth rates in the single-digit region forever more.

With the big stuff, he tells us the way it's going to be. But on some of the not-so-big stuff, he gives players a little control so we have some input. It's like: 'Here's an olive branch. Let's see what you do with it.' He makes you feel like it's not a totalitarian dictatorship.

Alex Jones

Within the Times, there's a great deal of concern about how this is going to reflect on the Times as an institution and therefore on them,

Howard Stringer

We need to convince investors ... that we are going to execute on these targets and take them very seriously,

We need to continue to show improvement and consistency to really establish ourselves as being a strong team at the end of the year.

We need to continue to make good habits a routine. Doing little things the right way leads to success, and that's what I'm trying to teach these guys.

We need to continue to do what we're doing and continue to implement the plan we've put in place.

Jakaya Kikwete

We need to conduct a public debate on this issue.