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.

Marc Magliarditi

Our mind-set is to win (tonight) and to win Saturday night. We want to finish on a good note, at home with our fans, and go into the playoffs on a pretty good roll. We don't think about Alaska and what's going on with them. Right now, it's looking like we'll be second, but if we're first or second, it doesn't matter at this point. We're looking pretty good, and playing together.

Jim Cole

I wrote one of my songs completely out in the field. Another one I started in Alaska and finished in Yellowstone. Even though my books are out, I still consider myself an educator first. I want to give people a better understanding of grizzly bears.

Joe Miller

But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy. So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.

Peter Galbraith

Forming a new ministry is an arrangement that will help increase oil production. If oil production increases in Alaska, it may be that the Alaskans get a major part of the benefits, but Alaska is still part of the US.

Dana Stabenow

My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

Dana Stabenow

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

Brian Major

Most people go to the Caribbean, but Alaska is also a prime summer market. Europe also attracts some families, but the Caribbean is the biggest.

Lisa Murkowski

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

Aldo Leopold

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Farid Ayyar

Partial results will be announced Saturday or Sunday and we will then announce the non-certified national total.

Charles Bona

Oracle said it wanted to cut costs by a couple hundred million when it announced the deal. I would imagine it will come from a mix of the two companies, but more heavily weighted toward Oracle.

Maj. Pettai

Our secret police announced last year that 250 people wanted to come into Estonia, but they had relationships with terrorist organizations.

Charles Dunstone

Our free broadband proposition, announced today, will require significant levels of investment in the short term. However, the broadband market is growing rapidly, and we are well placed to become a major force within it.

Rod Bruem

Our view is that the policy announced yesterday seems to be very heavily tilted towards protecting free-to-air broadcasters.

Greg Gorbatenko

On the surface, the numbers look bad, but when you dig into them you see health. Moreover, the $5 billion share buyback just announced is exactly what we would recommend. Lastly, while the quarter looked soft due to comps, it should be temporary, as compared to long-term health in the growing cable business, which is why we believe the company can keep to its guidance.

Chris Powell

Our company has announced it is going to make a significant capital expense investment at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but on the specifics of those projects I'm not ready to comment.

Mark Albrecht

Right out of the chute, we announced awards from returning customers and had a fantastically successful Atlas V launch with NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto - and there are 11 months to go in 2006.

Tom Vosa

Retailers have been cutting jobs amid falling demand. Boots announced another wave of job cuts yesterday and this suggests there will be more increases in claims.

Justin Hott

Regis missed earnings badly in a critical quarter for establishing credibility with consumer investors. Instead, this miss has created questions as to whether Alberto's beauty supply business is truly better off as a part of Regis.

George Steinbrenner

Sure, we got punished badly last night, but winners never quit and quitters never win. New Yorkers never quit, and we reflect the spirit of New York.

Dick Gephardt

suffers badly by being only about increased penalties and not enough about both increased penalties and worrying about how to prevent crimes before they happen.

Jennifer Pagonis

Some of them were badly injured and are receiving medical assistance. One asylum-seeker died of wounds,

Robert Russell

Our practice feels badly for any inconvenience that this has caused our patients, ... But we want an environment of stability for the patient, the provider and the payer.

Tom Osborne

Our state's foster-care system has been badly in need of major reform for quite some time.

Bob Woolmer

Our fielding was shocking and everything went wrong for us. We played badly and they played well. We got badly thrashed.

Rick Renteria

Overall, it was a not a badly played game. Both pitchers did a good job. I even thought Burke did a good job.

Bennett Miller

On the surface it's this elaborate story of a writer doing all sorts of things to complete his masterpiece. But nobody, and to some degree not even he himself, really understands the course he's on and what he is going through. He wanted fame so badly he was oblivious to what he was trampling on to get it.

Daniel Yergin

Particularly the East Coast could soon be teetering on the edge of shortage.

Todd Turner

Playing on the West Coast was very important. It's good for us and our fans.

Gil Jamieson

I'm here for the long haul. Homeland Security, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the Red Cross, the Department of Transportation, we're all looking at it as a team.

Jeff Miller

I will continue to fight any and all drilling that occurs within 100 miles of our coast or encroaches on our military mission in the Eastern Gulf.

John Nicks

I think the visit to the East Coast helped her. She worked with two very wonderful coaches.

Lisa Presley

I think the West Coast will embrace NASCAR; there is more of an audience.

James Clark

It is a nice buttery, flaky fish that is so pleasant to eat. It requires a delicate cooking method. It can hold up with a lot of flavors and combinations with ingredients. My favorite is with citrus and this will be great when we introduce it this spring at DC Coast for the first time.

Don Root

I think the Research Coast is more prominent this year.

Bible Bible

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

Kate Beckinsale

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

Paul Friel

He's drilling him with all kinds of questions.

Elmore Lockley

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

David Pratt

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Mike Pastore

We're still drilling holes, but so far nothing.

Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Norm Miller

It will be about half that going into drilling the wells and about half going into the facilities.

Arthur Mitchell

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

Jay Vavricek

Just because you appropriate funds doesn't mean you have to spend them.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

Eric Schwartz

Given the magnitude of the contributions, it is inevitable that some of the funds are not going to be spent as efficiently as possible.

Brian McQuade

Funds that are highly leveraged are risky and only pay off when the markets are up.

David Li

Funds moved back into technology shares, on strengthening sentiment in the industry.

Koji Suzuki

Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo reflect records abroad.

John Brady

Funds and trend-followers who were short are getting in the market, and that?s why it is going up, too.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Terry Francl

The port of New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system are the heart of the logistical transportation system for our exports.

Richard Knabb

We're looking at a major hurricane in the east-central Gulf later this week.

Andy Serkis

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Dean Plas

Our press has worked pretty well for us this season. We really needed it this game.

Ciputra

Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

Dan Dakich

Physically I think we were there, but mentally, for whatever the reason, we were not where we needed to be at all.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.

Brian Urlacher

We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover-2, and obviously that did not work out too well for us. When they needed a play, he made it and we didn't.

Marcus Ginyard

We needed a win tonight, not only the win but the way we won tonight.

E. Hicks

We needed a win to get back on track, getting things going for us again.

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed.

Rachel Farwell

I was a little concerned. I really think we needed this win to remind them that they can compete. They went out strong in the first half.

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.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

David Copperfield

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Marvin Kalb

I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Robert Torricelli

I know that's your testimony, Senator Torricelli, but it is not accurate.

Arlen Specter

No senator that I have talked to has come down and made up his or her mind.

Harold Ickes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Daniel Sullivan

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

Al Gore

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

O. Singh

I would not like to say anything at this stage. There are some clues... We are tying these together,