Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mamie Van Doren

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Keith Lawrence

We're not doing anything special to market them. We're trying to go ahead with business as usual in pretty unusual circumstances.

D. B. Weiss

Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.

Mike Chapman

Manhattan Associates was ahead of the curve in being able to show us how its RFID solutions would meet our needs. With the help of Manhattan Associates' project team, the implementation was smooth and came in under budget. Shire is poised and ready to meet upcoming retail requirements.

Frank Brothers

Like everyone else, I knew there was a possibility Jerry might not ride the whole winter, but I told him before the meet began that as long as he was still riding and the horse was doing well he'd have the mount. At the moment, Edgar has the call for the Hutcheson and we've committed to nothing else beyond that point. In this game you never want to get too far ahead of yourself.

Roger Martin

Luigi's chose to go ahead and do this on its own. I think it's incumbent upon those of us who don't smoke to support businesses that have gone smoke-free, whether they think they have to or they volunteered.

Steve Elkington

Major-championship golf, you're just really concentrating on more or less the shot you're trying to hit, ... If you get too far ahead of that, you don't seem to do too well.

Kirk Salvo

Mack spent the whole ride taping his ankles and his headgear and visualizing. He's a step ahead of other high school wrestlers, but you would never know it from talking to him or watching him on the mat. He's so humble and a real class act.

Kevin Correia

Making the rotation is my goal. Today I was able to get ahead of most of the hitters and that makes for short innings. That's been a problem for me the past few years.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Danny Brown

Lot of these businesses ain't going to get no business because of the road construction. It needs to be fixed. Eight months is long enough. They prolong it too much.

John Frisbie

Many of these ministries ran various industrial sectors, and U.S. businesses had to deal with them, but today hardly any of them are in the industrial sectors.

Bill Cheney

Many businesses see statistics showing economic growth as a cruel joke. Competition is still brutal, wages are still rising, prices are still flat or falling, and profits are as hard to find as they were a year ago.

John Oxendine

Several businesses are totally destroyed. Trees literally are sitting inside of houses.

Greg Sterling

Seventy-one percent of small businesses say they'd rather have phone leads than clicks.

Chris Rice

Much like businesses prefer to use managed services, we think consumers will look for managed services, too.

Robert Walsh

Mayor Bloomberg has led the way for making New York City more business-friendly, and these grants are another great resource for the city's businesses and workers, ... Today, new technology can cause industries to change overnight. In order to stay competitive, businesses need highly-trained employees with a flexible skill set.

Alex Rodriguez

I felt like if we could have delivered the knockout punch there, it could have been a long night for them,

Ricky Hatton

I have been very pleased with Dennis Hobson, ... We spoke to many people about the prospect of working with them and Dennis delivered. He put his money where his mouth is and delivered the fight.

Jerry Putnam

We are pleased that our shareholders recognize the value delivered and to be delivered through our merger with the NYSE.

Harbhajan Singh

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Philippe Baudillon

We delivered the messages we wanted to deliver. We had two main points - the enthusiasm of France for the games and the long-standing relations between France and Africa.

Robert South

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Clive Sinclair

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Pete Townshend

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Rocky Jarvis

Losing Jared was the toughest part of all. We had to use a different first doubles team and had to move everyone else up. It was a real deflating start.

Larry Sabato

McCain has been playing a double high-wire act.

Rick LaFountain

Maybe what I'm most pleased with is the way my first doubles team is playing. While trying to win singles matches is what I think we're going to need to do this year, the doubles are getting better.

Felix Silla

My job was to double for a little kid that was tied to a weather balloon.

Fadel Gheit

Occidental is paying more than double what its own stock is valuing its existing reserves,

Bill Drake

My goal is to at least double that turnout. We need more people involved in the process.

Dave Moreland

Obviously, we are proud of how our No. 3 doubles team played. They fought hard and hung in there.

Taylor Dent

I feel like it would be a shame to get rid of doubles, but I guess it's on the doubles players' responsibilities to find a way to make it lucrative.

Mike Bundy

I can't double use people. If employees are sitting in that store front, they can't run the bus.

Rusty DePass

Let private enterprise do as much of it as possible and keep as much property on the tax rolls as possible.

Michael Capellas

If one thing stands out in the fourth-quarter results, it's the strength of our enterprise technology and solutions. This is where we see our most important growth in 2001 and beyond.

Chris Nicol

The price offered at an enterprise value of around $360 million is extremely high for a beer, or any, asset.

Gustav Krupp

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

Melina Mercouri

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

George Allen

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

P. J. O'Rourke

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

Paul Cormier

We're really scaling this thing and putting in enterprise functionality.

Florentino Perez

Madrid is not obsessed with financial results. But the model guarantees our freedom,

Joe Donahue

Obviously, you don't want to miss out on that. It helps manage the financial risk.

Timothy Ghriskey

Obviously very leveraged to the financial markets, ... When stocks are going up, this stock should do better than the market. When stocks go down, it should do worse than the market. So, there is risk here. But, it's the most diversified of the major broker dealers.

Jack Cashman

Obviously this is good news. Maine competes very well with financial service institutions, and I think this proves it.

Rob Babcock

I can't go into any of the financial details, but some things were worked out that will help us,

Gregory Heidrich

Given the massive catastrophe losses absorbed by insurers in 2005, the increase in income during the first three quarters is a testament to the underlying financial health of the industry.

Dave Ramsey

A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Chris Segrin

We need to plan for our social future, just like we plan for our financial future.

Glenn Tilton

The Plan of Reorganization reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built,

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Michael Gillman

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Van Honeycutt

One thing that we've seen difficulties with is recruiting of senior management.

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

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.

Dan Bailey

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

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.

Alan Davidson

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

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Estella Olguin

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

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Point at solutions instead of at each other.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.