Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ward

We have no basis to know whether it's a legitimate expense or not. What do any of us know about accounting? That's what we hire professionals to do.

Tom Gallagher

What these numbers have done this morning is raise a question: Does the Fed have the nerve to raise by 50 basis points (a half percentage point) next week?

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Brett Scallions

The exposure will be great and plus -- it's Aerosmith! ... They're legends. It's going to be really cool. I mean, how cool would it be to be on a first-name basis with Steven Tyler?

Suzanne Collins

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Stephan Pastis

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

Tom Hopper

I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.

Tony Hoare

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Sue Trinh

The outlook for rates is to the downside on the basis of the slowing growth environment. Any view that the relatively high nominal interest rate structure will be enough to insulate the New Zealand dollar is dead wrong.

Istvan Gyulai

We have no problem with that. Whether or not they can compete in the trials, we leave it in the hands of USA Track & Field.

Danielle Kamm

We have NCAA tournament ability. It's disappointing, but we still get to keep playing. We're still going to go out and compete and play the game we love.

Donovan Hand

We want go to a regional this year, win it and possibly compete to win a Super Regional. That was our team goal to start the year. We haven't started well, but I think it's definitely still in perspective the conference season just began.

Tim Massaquoi

The expectations here are high. That's the level we compete at. There's always pressure to win at Michigan. We go into every season thinking that we're going to win the national championship. Why would we shoot for anything less?

Walt Drenth

The reality is this is the first meet we're really prepared for. We're really ready to see where we're at and make big progress. Whenever you compete in an environment where you've been before, it makes it easier. It's a great track and a good facility, and one of the most competitive meets in the country.

Steve Burd

We use this technique more than some others we compete with and frankly, we think we use it to our competitive advantage, ... The fact that we are the only ones doing buyouts in Northern California, well frankly, we like that.

Scott Snyder

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

Stephen Richer

The product that we had and the product that we're going to have even better can perform much more successfully when we have the dollars to tell the story. Otherwise, we're at a competitive disadvantage. I think it's really important that there is enough resources to let people know what we have. Then we can compete with a lot of major destinations throughout the country.

Tim Tebow

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

Mike Holmgren

No one wants a disruptive situation on his roster. There is too much at stake. Without naming names, we've seen too much of it recently. Teams are getting tired of it.

Eli Harari

We think this will be a disruptive technology, but will enable a whole new world of opportunities in the mobile market.

Alan Curbishley

Kevin has had a disruptive time with injuries in recent times, and it will do him a world of good to get a month of first-team football. Hopefully he will come back to us nice and sharp.

Brad Hopkins

He's a disruptive force. But it's one of those things where you go into it knowing. You expect a challenge, and you have to be up for it.

Jim Hendry

He gets your offense going. He's a catalyst. He's a disruptive guy to the other team.

J. Hoover

He was a horrible practice player. He would show up late. He was lazy, and he was a disruptive player for the team.

Becky Johnson

You can come here with a group that is very disruptive and they'll end up being entirely focused.

Tim Hunt

I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.

Jim Tracy

Duffy is an important piece at the top of our lineup. That's an ideal spot for him. When he gets on first base, he can be a very disruptive player as fast as he is.

Peter Feinstein

We have no other intention right now for the property other than to operate it not only as the world's largest gentlemen's club, but as the world's most expensive gentlemen's club.

Christopher Russell

This was not a cost-effective decision. It was a very expensive decision.

Gavid Hood

The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

Michael Muller

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

Geoff Cooper

much more traditional, longer, expensive and thorough development route.

Paul Morris

The principal problem that universities face is money, ... This is expensive technology to deploy.

Hebrew Proverb

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced

Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Frank Moro

Making it more expensive on the west side just exacerbates the problem.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Michael Mosley

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Jessica Simpson

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

It is unclear whether a round of international trade talks can be launched in 2001, so it wouldn't be right to set a timetable for launching the round now.

Lori Smith

(We were) launching until about 10 p.m. (Saturday).

John Hanson

All we're launching is a 1/2-ton. We're going to have a 1/2-ton vehicle that will tow more than 10,000 pounds. That will be quite a statement.

Rod Shealy

As a part of our campaign, we're launching a series of real-people, paper-plate dinners.

Jerry Colangelo

That is for the purpose of (NBA Properties) launching sponsorships (in China).

Carol Mann

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.

C. S. Lewis

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

C. S. Lewis

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

C. S. Lewis

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

Agnes Martin

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Charlotte Bronte

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

Charlotte Bronte

There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

Charles de Gaulle

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Aaron Swartz

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Alan Kay

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ted Chiang

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.