Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Roskill

We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.

John Morrison

We have to go back to some of the basics. Those basics are the parents have to get involved in the young people lives. The parents have to know what their kids are doing. The churches are going to have to get involved. We are going to have to start educating our kids.

Bill Clinton

We have to find ways to continue to change consistent with our basic values and our common community and humanity.

Stephen Thom

We have no legal binding, we basically are trying to work with the parties to see if there's an interest on their part to resolve this amicably. If we feel that the parties are not willing to resolve it, then we're done.

Wendy Vasquez

We want people to hold hands and create a bridge of support for the basic human rights, dignity and equal respect of immigrants in this country.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes.

Jen Dibble

We were basically priced right out of Orleans.

Pat Walsh

We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.

Jeff Dousharm

We were around the business so I think we got our basic mechanical skills from him.

Jim Gingrich

What these guys are saying effectively is that pricing is tough. There's not a lot of growth, so you've got to get your cost structure in line to be able to play.

Rob Lowe

Whenever you do a revival it begs the question 'why now and why here?'. I can't think of a better place to do the show than London right now, and I can't think of a better theme to do than the cost of protecting the world.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Alan Curbishley

We were tough tonight though, I don't want to make out we weren't. We battled and scrapped, but we also switched off, and that undid all the good work, and cost us two points, and that's why I'm frustrated.

Zhang Jun

The extra cost is the major reason why the market is slow to react to the campaign.

Jim McDonald

The fact is, we are going to get it done sooner and it will cost customers less.

Dr. Fossbender

There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.

Richard Williams

The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,

Michael Bean

We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come.

Steve Ballmer

We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise.

Neil Mellor

We've seen better economic data out of the U.K. and that has helped the pound.

Jim Barksdale

The fact is we have very few facts. The purpose of the Internet Policy Institute is to gather the kind of data that's going to be essential to develop the Internet.

Lee Tien

The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of data that society is putting in third-party hands. That's how modern society has been architected.

Gail Bronson

There is a lot of froth and fever surrounding the debuts of new stocks. But that is not the data on which investors should determine their long-run strategies.

Fred Davis

We're just trying to develop a database and establish a baseline.

Len Lichtenfeld

The outcome of the study is not as clear-cut as we might have hoped for. It will take some time for experts to review the data to determine which of the two treatments is preferable.

Stephen Elliot

Vendors are moving away from centralized, agent-based technologies to real-time data collection.

Sarah Koenig

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Uzo Aduba

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

Kim Yuna

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Bram Stoker

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Joan Cusack

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Mickey Arthur

We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Jim Fowler

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Ireland Baldwin

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Ashton Kutcher

He told her in no uncertain terms there would be no surgery. He insisted he loves every little wrinkle on her face.

Andrew Laird

I automatically questioned it, but they insisted they saw something down there.

Matt Will

The market insisted that this is the way to go.

Carol Moseley Braun

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Oskar Lafontaine

We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq war.

Jared Diamond

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Argus Hamilton

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Richard Barnes

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Jane Smiley

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.