Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Porter

We want the kids to show up. We want to be accessible for any needy kid. It costs $300-400 to get started because the equipment is so expensive. We want to draw kids across boundaries to start relationships.

Alexander Downer

We want to see progress on agriculture, we want to see the European Union come back with a better market access offer that's going to be crucial to a successful meeting in Hong Kong,

Lisa Gansky

The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

Lisa Gansky

A shift toward access and service would deepen the big-box retailer's relationship to customers and win their loyalty. A service focus would bring more rewarding, frequent, and lasting contact with grateful customers.

Lisa Gansky

Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.

Tom Fisher

The potential is obviously great with the access to the freeway.

Nicola Lisus

The point of this exhibition is for visitors to harness their imagination and to show them that scientists, like children, access their best stuff through their imagination and fantasy. You think, 'Look at these characters, they're fantastic.' But they're all actually very scientific.

Viktor Khristenko

Unreliable access to energy, which has been evident from recent short- and long-term challenges and threats, has influenced the well-being of the entire world community.

Bill Richardson

We applaud Southern Company for being a leader with corporate fleets giving their employees access to a cleaner means of transportation and for continuing the partnership in the federal fleet program,

George Vasic

The potential for additional gains for stocks is limited given that we've had such a good run-up. We've been telling people to pare back a bit and reduce equity holdings.

Tim Hardaway

The post-game concert series is a tremendous additional entertainment feature for Florida Pit Bulls games,

Anita Steeves

We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about the draft decision. This additional revenue will defray some but not all of our increasing operational costs.

Dean Breest

We appreciate Judge Gropper giving the parties additional time to work out their differences.

Steve Simon

We are always striving to enhance the overall experience of spectators at the Pacific Life Open. The addition of the Tennis! Link service will give fans an extra viewing dimension on the Stadium court while keeping them informed of results as they happen.

Michelle Abraham

We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services in addition to satellite TV reception and basic boxes for TV reception only. Advanced features include hard drives for DVR services, multiple tuners, more connectivity options, and high-definition decoding for receiving HD signals.

Jan Kostner

We are proud to have such an extraordinary addition to Illinois' cultural tourism offerings. The museum does a remarkable job of immersing visitors into the rich history of our country and one of its most respected leaders.

Brad Cox

We are proud to have Comerica, one of the nation's leading financial services firms, at 2000 Avenue of the Stars. Committed to delivering the highest quality financial services, Comerica will be a tremendous addition to our tenant roster. The bank will provide outstanding value to the project's tenants and the community-at-large.

Tony Tyler

We are prepared to charter additional aircraft and rebook passengers on other airlines. For the moment we will continue to operate normally and take bookings on future flights,

Donald Black

The perimeter of the playground will remain as it was, ... I do not anticipate any other changes to the footprint.

Mark Stevens

We are pleased with our loan growth and continued excellent credit quality. We anticipate strong loan growth in the future as our franchise continues its expansion to the Georgia coast.

Bob Lewis

We've already notified our customers what their new rates will be, so I don't anticipate we'll change (the rate schedule) now.

Jim Smith

We strongly suggest that material planners anticipate an impact on lead times and factor that into appropriate buffer inventories on critical components.

Jim Brunelle

We're inexperienced at a lot of positions and it shows. We don't anticipate where the ball is going and as a result we can't put a series of passes together to get the ball up the field.

Rich Braham

We have to have a good game plan this week, go in and know our assignments. That's the biggest thing to getting off to a good start because if everyone knows what they are doing nobody has to anticipate what the Browns are doing.

Patricia Smith

What the students didn't anticipate at the time is that interest rates in the last few years have gone way down. Now 6.8 percent as a fixed rate doesn't look so good.

David Aaron

We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,

Bill Self

We were a team kind of just flapping in the wind and floundering around, not because they weren't trying but because we hadn't found ourselves yet. I knew we'd get better. But I didn't anticipate us coming together and having a surge like we've had here since we started conference play.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Michael Nathanson

We want to see real earnings and cash flow.

David Tang

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Spike Lee

We have a sort of understanding that works on the set. When you're shooting, the cash register is ringing . Denzel and I know where we're going before shooting starts. Then, it's a matter of doing it.

Charlie Munger

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

Tyson Slocum

What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.

James Chessen

What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.

David Briggs

What we're hearing is that today was predominantly short covering, ... I know that there's people that have cash and are stepping in when the market's down.

Tracey Mills

What they're doing now is more targeted marketing. One is cash incentives - some say it's the next wave after free checking - and the targeted marketing is a trend we've noticed for several years now.

Terry Bivens

What they need to do is deploy the cash in a way that drives some growth. Sara Lee, rightly or wrongly, is not viewed as a growth company.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The perfect man in Eden therefore was rich, and such riches he might have possessed forever had he continued obedient to his Creator.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Phil Drosdick

We accomplished our goal this season, which was getting to the state tournament. I'm proud of that. These kids worked really hard this season, and we continued to improve all season.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Robert Johnston

We want to substantially put greater emphasis on customer service and customer satisfaction. We really want to revitalize the spirit of the organization. It needs to be a much greater competitor.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Jerry Rogers

We spoke with more than 50 financial institutions and each of them gave PCS top marks for customer service, conversions and system capabilities.

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Anne Stevens

When you talk about what is Lincoln, it's about reaching the American customer who has reached his goals, reached his dream and wants to be rewarded for that.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Eric Ripert

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Anita Borg

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Harriet Lamb

Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Nathaniel Rateliff

My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

Megan Smith

We're going to get her times down faster once she gets in shape. She still has a ways to go on that, but she has a lot of natural ability.

Steve Jobs

We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,

Sandra Smith

We're going to have to figure out a way for students to go through school faster so more can come in.

Anatol Popovich

We're faster and plus we play a quicker game.

Joerg Appenzeller

Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.

Craig Forman

The process is very seamless, and allows us to handle more loans with the same number of people. As we go forward, we can give the brokers a faster response.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Charles Lee

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Olivia Culpo

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

Henry Hyde

We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.

Debbie Tower

We recognize the importance of getting the six lanes built.

Ami Bera

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Charles Dickens

I only ask for information.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

China Mieville

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Bill Summers

Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on.

T. S. Eliot

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Mark Cuban

When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.

Jason Ellis

We're seeing this as a stepping stone to how we become an integrated operator.

Karl Nurse

There are a lot of comfortably integrated neighborhoods.

Jerry Yang

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

David Keene

We don't just look at a small piece of the SOA stack. We've integrated all these technologies to work together as part of a platform.

Mitch Daniels

is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been.

Stephanie Haymore

It is movement integrated from ballet, modern and jazz.

Brian Gammage

Really there is not anything new in application terms. It is just an integrated version of what they've got already.

David Reed

Different levels of security have different levels of integration; access-control systems typically are integrated through the WAN and back to the network host.

Don Listwin

This extends the Internet to a world without wires and represents the first major deployment of integrated data, voice and video services under an Internet-based cellular infrastructure.

Richard P. Feynman

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Mike Turner

He will not be rehired ... regardless, ... an internal personnel matter.

Fred Mumford

There are a lot of internal meetings going on here. We obviously don't have the power to make the quarry resume pumping.

Chuck Schumer

The president ought to do his own internal investigation of the vice president's office, to see what happened, set some standards and if need be take the vice president to the woodshed,

Dean Wareham

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

Mark Erickson

Women have an internal signal of pending motherhood - they are pregnant. Men do not.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

Phil Garner

We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team,

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Paul Lang

Today, people in loss prevention need to have skills in finance, inventory control, accounting. They really need to understand the retail operations thoroughly.

Adam Savage

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Clint Hurdle

We're not going to continually put 20 rookies out there. That's why we took the inventory that we took the last two years to find out what we had, and find a wave that would land and stay on beach, not be sent back out to the sea.

Bruce Lee

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

David Lereah

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

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.

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

David DeFazio

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

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Tim Hearn

We're sensitive to consumers, we recognize there's more out of people's pocketbooks,

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Debbie Breen

We've had so many requests for groceries. The groceries take up one-third of the store.

Larry Pope

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.

Joe Solmonese

They said they'd take our requests under advisement.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Elizabeth Thornton

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Horacio Gutierrez

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Jaromir Jagr

We didn't respond to the stuff they played. We weren't smart enough.

Skip Prosser

We didn't respond back. We had a run to start the half, they had a run back, and it was up to us to make a run back at them. We didn't have the wherewithal to do that.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Camille Paglia

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university

Carl Levin

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.