Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bill Johnson

Relative to the overall statewide timber harvest, the net addition is relatively small. There is an effect, but it's a small one and it can be easily mitigated.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Walt Dabney

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

Thomas Stevens

Our members' experience and familiarity with the communities in which they work make them valuable resources. They understand what makes a good investment, whether their clients are buying, selling or remodeling.

Jeff Dousharm

People like us need clients who want nice things. Otherwise, we couldn't compete with places like Williams Lumber.

Mary Schiavo

Survivors are sometimes a little too brave. Many of my clients I've represented in the past have put on a stiff upper lip.

Mike Kidwell

Some of our clients just need somebody to talk to, they just need a support to know they're doing the right thing. You need to establish a game plan that puts you on the right path.

Brian Keane

Our Fourth Quarter results closed out the year on a positive note that sets the tone for the year ahead. 2005 was an important year for Keane as we put the plan and the people in place to drive our company-wide One Keane transformation initiative. The goal of the One Keane initiative is to enhance top- and bottom-line growth by creating an efficient global operating model. This will enable us to better serve our clients by accelerating the development of innovative solutions, fostering collaboration, and improving efficiencies.

Brian Sell

Our track record in providing IT support for other key clients in South Africa, while maintaining 97% on service level agreements, positions us as an ideal partner for FNB. This support is made possible through our extended footprint within southern Africa.

Sean Coffey

Our clients were quite impressed with the vision of Nortel's new management and the plans for the future.

David Cameron

Our clients want it. It will outweigh the negatives. A lot of clubs fail to market their club.

Kelly Smith

Our clients take our database and compress, compile and manipulate it to their specific requirements.

Dan Watson

Part of the major increase is in supplies because of the uniform cycle that we're in.

Peter Richardson

Overall the inventory position is tight. This cycle is all about surprise. We had the demand shock from China, and now we're also getting another one from the investment community.

Dan Gallagher

Our whole goal is to provide a safe haven for them. These kids have been exposed to things which have been damaging. They lose a whole history, they lose themselves and don't have an identity. For many of them, it's been a cycle of abuse.

John Silvia

Manufacturing growth has moderated in recent months, as the cycle moderates despite the hype about the new-found recovery.

Tom Higgins

I think there will be another quarter point hike or two. This is paving a way for a pause at some point early next year. This tightening cycle is long in the tooth.

Jim Paulsen

It gives you the sense that maybe this earnings cycle is going to be like the rest, where it starts out like it's going to be terrible and it ends up looking good, ... That's been the pattern for eight quarters.

Peter Watkins

I'd like to get that cycle time to less than six hours,

Mike McCrary

There are so many good restaurants now that it leaves an economic opportunity. When everything goes upscale, you also need a layer of family dining, lower-scale ... This is an upward cycle, where up until three years ago it was a downward cycle in a big way." ()

Elvis Picardo

From here on, I think the market will focus on the fact that the easing cycle is going to come to an end pretty soon. Which means the Fed might be seeing a recovery in the economy early next year. Investors are going to want to be in a position that they'll be in the rally once this happens.

Jack Crumbliss

Our new offense gives us a triple option that enables us to better utilize our personnel and hopefully keep our opponents off balance.

Krish Krishnan

It enables the seller of the stock -- that is, management -- to price the issue right. It also enables management to pick the right investor.

Graham Walker

It enables the replication to keep going and tolerate the damage, even though it doesn't get rid of it.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Silvio Berlusconi

It is an historic meeting of global significance.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Nauman Barakat

It is not 9/11 in its devastation or its impact on global demand. Therefore this sell-off will be very temporary.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Quincy Jones

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Mike Ortner

Lindsey has improved each time out and has been very consistent. She'll be tested. Hopefully, she can come up big for us, and make some game-changing saves.

Jim Oberdorf

I think she is great. She has improved a thousand percent.

Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

Dennis Kuhl

I think it was kind of indicative of his adventurous soul.

Martha Burk

I think that's just indicative of two things,

Tony Oppegard

I would say that these are indicative of an operator who wasn't going to let safety get in the way of production.

Lisa Greif

I think it's just indicative of my reputation.

Ron Dittemore

It could be indicative of a rough tile or missing tile. We are not sure yet. I don't have a smoking gun. I don't have anything that shows a root cause.

Betty Wright

'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Mark Donahoe

The real players are still not playing in the marketplace and I think the (low) volume is indicative of that.

Brian Cresta

What we're seeing in Maine is not indicative of what we're seeing nationally.

Robbie Deans

He's the first to have done it and that's indicative of how remarkable it is. Who knows, it may never be done again.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Sam Yagan

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Rupert Murdoch

He was a man who you could truly say was larger than life.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Maria Altmann

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Robert Brady

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Walter Salles

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

David Atkinson

I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

There is no friendship in trade.

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

Barbara Castle

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Marissa Mayer

We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.

Bethany Mota

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

Chris Dancy

It has slowed some, but the trend is still down.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

John Slenker

This trend has been going on for a long time.

Betsy Beers

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!

John Stayton

We are in a sense bucking the trend in most MBA programs.

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

John Hawkes

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

Henry Shelton

Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.

George Curry

It was a way to have a wider community.

Bill Rammell

It will be an important part of wider work into admissions testing,