Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Martinez

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Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team. We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team, ... We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Ted Spadaro

Our players have to understand that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, getting to play the No. 2 team in the state. You get that opportunity, try to take advantage of it, and you take it from there.

Reed Hastings

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

John Schwarz

Organizations are placing a premium on the value of accurate, complete, and timely information. Enterprise information management provides Business Objects with a significant competitive advantage in what we can offer our customers, and we expect it to play an important role in our future growth plans.

Paul Fix

Patience is going to be key around the narrow circuit. I'm close enough to the lead pack, I intend to stay with the lead pack and take advantage of any opportunities that come my way,

Steve Mansfield

Paying people to search and share what they've found is a concept that's gaining in popularity. Community and social search is the wave of the future, but these types of sites need to quickly build high-quality, human-indexed content, and their members are looking for the motivation to participate in this effort. Further, advertisers are anxious to take advantage of targeting large groups of users that are all interested in common products and services, which PreFound.com provides.

Mark Cunningham

Reliable, efficiently delivered crude oil supplies are needed by area refineries to maintain affordable gasoline prices for the residents of Utah.

Nicolas Retsinas

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

Joan Miles

Parents who think that affordable health coverage for their kids is an impossible dream should explore CHIP as a solution.

Jeannine Kenney

Part of the problem is how far behind we are in broadband development. We still don't have a national broadband policy in this country to make it available to Americans at affordable prices.

Peter Doyle

Our objective, which is to become the leading provider of affordable risk, health, savings and investment solutions to lower income earners, is well within our capabilities given our ongoing commitment to genuine economic empowerment.

Karen Ignagni

Our members are very anxious to provide affordable coverage.

David Ozgo

Spirits are perceived as affordable luxury. People are more careful with their spending today. Maybe they can't buy a $40,000 BMW but they're willing to buy a good $60 to $70 bottle of Scotch. You don't get that kind of trading-up feeling with beer.

William Russell

Our responsibility is to see they are in safe, affordable housing, especially if we have vacant units at other sites that need to be leased. That's not to say none of them will get a voucher. But they're not automatically entitled to it.

Larry Glasscock

Our focus as a combined company is to become the most trusted choice for consumers and a leader in affordable quality care.

Frank Colby

Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits

Zhou Min

Reasons for giving up the animals are various including moving home, not wanting the pets to distract the kids' study or simply because the dogs were too old or owners had no more patience for raising pets.

Erich Fromm

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Matt Prescott

Our real goal here is that the shareholders care about animal rights and that the company moves toward that goal.

Cherie Owen

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We've had some of them a year.

Todd Nims

People have been known to contract balis from simply feeding raccoons in their backyards. So obviously, your chances go way up if the animal is living with you.

David Attenborough

People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.

Phil Coleman

People love giraffes. There are plenty of zoos out there who want giraffes. People expect to see those kind of animals at the zoo. It's what they are familiar with.

Deborah Franklin

People look at animal control officers as being big bad people. To me this shows them taking care of what people should be taking care of with their pets - spaying and neutering that is. It shows they have white hats instead of black hats.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Mike Rodriguez

Our recommendation should be to start one facility that could handle about 100 people and see how it works. If successful, it could be duplicated in other areas of the county.

Ravi Pawar

Patrolling in markets and crowded areas has been intensified and posters and leaflets are being put up educating the public to be careful about suspicious packages.

Gary Mar

Part of managing Alberta's parks and recreation areas is ensuring the proper enforcement tools are in place, ... We did a comprehensive review and have brought the penalties for violating parks regulations more in line with penalties for offences under other Alberta laws.

Charles Hood

Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains. We're just now getting into the areas that experienced the most rapid inundation.

Peter Johnson

Paul was an excellent journalist and excellent educator, and he did a great job of combining those two areas in the Native Media Center.

Dennis Washington

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.

Alan Martin

It does put a doctor or health-care clinic in a more vulnerable position. This was an important provision for them (CMS) to have. I think they will be as aggressive, if not more aggressive, in turning off the tap.

Ifzal Ali

I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity.

Chris Paulitz

Harlingen specifically needs a new clinic with updated and upgraded services.

Hamish Bowles

I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.

John Beilein

I thought we put on a pretty good clinic for most of the game. Kevin is really playing well and developing into a complete player.

Adil Shamoo

I think the National Institutes of Health should take responsibility for conducting this type of clinical trial, where controversy and potential harm to the population are at stake.

Brad Clanton

Humphrey puts on a clinic out there, especially defensively. He's very technically sound. Mauro is the hitting leader on the defense right now. He's 145 pounds and flying around like a crazy person.

Karen Russell

I also love animals, and I worked at a veterinary clinic for a while, but it turns out that loving animals and removing deflated basketballs from the intestinal tracts of animals are two very different skill sets.

Kevin McCabe

Regardless of the operator, the Department of Homeland Security controls all security operations in the seaport. That's our job.

Mike Shaver

Organizations will be able to set up their own update system that uses the same client-side piece, so they can control what gets updated and when. And we are scaling our own infrastructure to deal with our growing user base.

Paul Murphy

Organizations ultimately exist as information and control processing tools, and outsourcing IT therefore diminishes overall organizational value.

Tom Shepard

Organizationally, it equates parks maintenance with traffic control and sewer maintenance,

Jim Baron

Parfait played solid, he played under control and very poised.

Bill Owens

Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I think are overall going to do better regardless of whether that comes from traditional treatments or a combination of western medicine plus other alternative approaches,

Josh Towers

(Pat) Hentgen used to tell me: 'You can't control wins and losses, you can control what you do'. That's why I think for a lot of veteran guys they understand how important it is to throw a lot of innings, to get 200-plus innings,

Tom Kelley

Pat Bledsoe wrestled well. He wrestled a pretty controlled match. Four or five different times, he was in on a single leg, and we covered each time.

Brian Billick

Passion, emotion and intensity are good, but they've always got to be under control.

Marty Heires

Our self-checkout options do offer customers a convenient option. They may see a line of two or three people at the checkout register, and they can slip in and use the self-checkout devices to get in and out easily and quickly.

Liz Neporent

We live in such a convenient world that we have to go out of our way to create movement.

Hitoshi Murayama

That was a convenient picture of what we thought everything was made of. The more recent realization is that it's not the case.

Dick Vermeil

He knows the offense and he lives in town. He's convenient and a smart guy.

Rubin Carter

It is a challenge. I spoke about things being uncomfortable sometimes. It's not always going to be a situation where it's going to be convenient for you.

Jim Bell

Golfers are creatures of habit. We want to make it convenient for them to stop in and spend their money.

Ann Sims

I have immediate plans to pursue a doctoral degree in education. That will be more convenient if I'm back on the other side of the mountains.

Joy Bauer

Men have a tendency to grab whatever's convenient and also gravitate to whatever they grew up on.

Kevin Burns

One hundred percent of them said they liked it, they thought it was convenient and they said they'd use it again.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

Hines Ward

Relieved? Yes, ... I dont wish this on anybody. It was very hard to go out onto the field with peace of mind knowing that youre so close. I can go into the season focused now.

Jerome Bettis

Our quarterback has been incredible. His development on the field is the reason we're here.

Charlie Bell

Our offensive line was outstanding, our open field tackling was improved and our inside linebacker play was improved.

Herman Edwards

Our mindset was to get him in the game to kick field goals and he did that,

Herman Edwards

Our mind-set was to get him in the game to kick field goals, and he did that.

David Rehr

Our middles didn't do much the last time we played them. In our previous two matches (against Lee), Haley had 16 kills and our other two middles each had one, so we doubled our middle totals because that's something Lee hadn't seen before. They were worried about our outside hitters because they had a field day before.

Joe Tiller

Surprisingly, the injury isn't too serious. We thought he might have been able to hold for field goals but he wasn't able to.

Richard Barnes

States can be leaders in the field of biotechnology while holding firm to moral principles and the protection of human life.

Howard Wolfson

Spitzer has been raising money for a while, whereas Pataki's indecision froze the field and prevented Republicans from raising money until relatively late in the game.

Joel Kinnaman

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Chris Noth

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

Lisa Holden

Morano identified the need for this training program in December, largely in part because of the incident involving officer McDermott and officer Diaz.

Ben Wolcott

We have identified the individuals, and they will be getting a bill.

Greg Chappell

We have identified some bowlers, but at this stage we haven't been able to use them for various reasons.

Helen Arnold

We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.

Neil Cross

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Chris Buck

I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.

Stuart Gallacher

We've identified the person - other spectators were kind enough to let us know who he was. All I want to say to this person face-to-face when I see him is that he's not welcome here.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

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.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

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

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Jon Tetzchner

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Jim Johnson

He's a smart player and is picking up the system really well,

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Jenny Potter

We have 20 players picking each other up.

James Evans

Until he understands that, he'll keep on picking up things to see if they work.

Lana Planisek

They will be taking some puppies from the shelter.

Lesleigh Drye

We tried to think of different clients. Quantities were tough.

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.

Chris Roche

We now know there's a team out there that is better than us. And between now and the end of the year, we have to improve. There's a target out there for us.

David Buik

It is a takeover target as well, to be candid. Someone is going to have a nibble.

Carol Hamilton

That's the target we're especially trying to reach,

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Nort Thornton

I think we are right on target and I think we will do really well in the championships.

Fred Miller

I think they will target at least one of us.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.