Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Garlinghouse

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.

Vladimir Litvin

The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.

William Dempkowski

The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.

Raul Gonzalez

We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors,

Michael Capellas

We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.

Dan Stein

We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.

Alan Lacy

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

Chuck D.

We appreciate the length of service and time that Carla had provided to the Art Center, and we also support the actions that were taken (to fire Kelly).

Stefan Pryor

We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.

David McEntire

The potential for damage by this storm is significant, and the risk of flooding and tornadoes exists after the hurricane has begun to dissipate. ... Texas has learned from Louisiana's example. No one wants to repeat those mistakes.

Richard Wiles

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

Jane Anderson

We've already begun talking about some things we can do differently next time, but we were really pleased with this election. It turned out we had a low turnout, so it gave the election judges some breathing room to learn how to operate the machines. But all in all, I believe everything went smoothly and well.

Joseph Jackson

We stagnated for a little while, but through a combination of things we've begun to take off.

Natalie Massenet

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Rick Anderson

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

John Eyler

With the holidays now upon us, everyone throughout our global toy organization is focused on maximizing our performance during this season, ... We have begun to execute our holiday strategies, and we believe consumers are clearly recognizing that we have the widest assortment of toys available.

Michael Gerard

Very few marketing organizations haven't at least thought about creating a dashboard or begun investments into it. Marketers might not have a dashboard today, but the reality that they need to be more accountable is here to stay.

David Trimble

We're glad to see that the IRA has taken a significant step towards decommissioning but it hasn't actually begun decommissioning. And of course we want to see that happen.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Gordon Higgins

We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

Heino Ruland

With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for further gains.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Goran Persson

We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Tim Hesson

We've always tried to take a look around the corner. If we are going to spend this money, is there any possibility to do something different or to better improve the infrastructure tomorrow, even if we can't leverage it today?

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Jim Loughran

We're going to stay with the same thing and try to improve what we have.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Shane MacGowan

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Jeff Ross

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Najib Razak

I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

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.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

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

John Eaton

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

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Todd Phillips

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

Neil Levine

We don't have any specific allocation for it yet.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.