Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Pedraza

Luxury Institute researchers found most luxury brands in the writing instruments category, as in the luxury watches category, to be niche brands, with 1% to 4% awareness among the wealthy, and in many cases, known only to connoisseurs. Still, the holy grail of a luxury brand is a Harry Winston, or a Rolls Royce, brands that are known to the majority of wealthy consumers, but are affordable by only a few. That feat requires brilliant products, and even more brilliant marketing skills.

Kevin Davis

Making even 20 percent of new housing affordable doesn't seem to be enough for everyone who needs it. They'll just end up building more and more until there is nothing left to build on.

Dennis Smith

Las Vegas will never again be viewed as an affordable housing market by the 'working class' as it was just five years ago.

William Frey

Let's face it, bright lights aren't as bright as they used to be downtown. The high priority is to have an affordable house.

Paul Rooke

Many users simply need a fast, reliable and affordable monochrome laser printer. These printers deliver exceptional quality, value and performance, and we are very pleased by the recognition they have received from Better Buys for Business.

Phil Rist

Many consumers were driven to the stores last weekend by great sales on electronics and toys. Now that many of the most popular electronics are affordable for the average shopper, people are picking up DVD players and digital cameras as gifts, but also for themselves.

Jon Tester

Senator Burns should stand up to the big pharmaceutical companies and let Medicare negotiate drug prices to make them more affordable for our senior citizens. We need a program that works for seniors, not against them.

Lawrence Yun

So long as the South remains affordable and the number of available jobs remains steady we forecast continued growth in Atlanta.

Andres Duany

Mobile homes are permanent housing, not temporary. Mobile homes are the only housing affordable to a large portion of the population.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Koji Endo

Mazda is gaining on new models that are selling really well, lower production costs from platforms shared with Ford, and the weaker yen,

Tina Lange

Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was substantial.

Sen. Bray

My impression from what has happened in other states is that student-loan costs have definitely gone up.

Robert Steidl

Nestlings probably suffered the highest energetic costs from disturbances because of their dependence on adults for food.

Pat Burns

One incentive is that energy costs are pretty low up here.

Scott Matthews

No one knows what the environmental costs of messing up the existing infrastructure will be.

Tim Jackson

Now the overhead for running dealerships has grown so much, it costs a lot more to operate all those franchises. If you're lucky, you're making a 1.5 percent to 3 percent profit.

John Conway

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

R. Robinson

Luckily, we grossly underestimated the money and energy required to refurbish the home and surroundings. With more wisdom, we might have passed!

Danny Grieves

Luther plays with so much energy and he's tenacious on his rebounding. Luther's not a great leaper, but he's a quick leaper.

Helene Lagerberg

Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you

Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Jorge Zamacona

Lee has exploded. He's exactly the energy the ensemble needed.

Sathya Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Lucia Shook

Like everyone else I need all the help I can get.

Ted Stevens

Luke would have been a big help to us as our captain. That was a big loss.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

John Prescott

Legislation in itself will not end the dispute, but it is prudent to take these powers to use if necessary to help reach an agreement.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Charleen Scott

Leave me out of your tricks today. I've never been to jail, and I intent to keep it that way.

Tony Domenech

My intent is going to be to rescue those neighborhoods.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Andre Agassi

My intention is to keep working and keep doing what I am doing, ... The only thing better than the last 20 years (at the U.S. Open) will be 21.

Mahmoud Zahar

Negotiations is not our intention, negotiation is a method,

Mahmud Zahar

Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Geno Auriemma

She wasn't that thrilled to play. When I took her out, I had no intention of putting her back in. But all that went out the window in the second half.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

David Hensley

The (Purchasing Managers Index) points to robust, broad-based growth.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Sophie Monk

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Jessica White

There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Donella Meadows

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Arthur Smith

Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Bart Bryant

Mentally, I was just ready to do it.

Gerhard Schroeder

My country, Germany, stands ready to support such a process.

David Kudla

More so, many of them who are about ready to go anyway, and they have the $35,000 sweetener on the deal.

Kerry Wood

When I can go out there and throw the way I want to throw and recover the way I want to recover, that's when we're ready to go. Until then, that's what we are waiting on.

Brian Bannister

I feel like I'm ready to go out there and pitch.

Vernon Davis

I feel like I'm ready. I'm ready to go out there right now.

Lindsay Davenport

I feel like I'm ready for the challenges.

Palle Pedersen

Growers need to be ready like they were in 2005.

Matt Baker

Getting butterflies I don't think is a nervousness that's unnatural, ... If you don't get butterflies in a game, I don't think you're excited, you're not ready to go.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Tom Matzzie

I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.

Mike Eaves

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

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.

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.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Melvin Maddocks

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Clifford Geertz

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Mary Balogh

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

John Green

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Horace

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]