Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murli Deora

We are making all efforts, including using our personal contacts, to get U.S. multinationals to bid for our exploration blocks ... so far they have stayed away, but I am sure this time things will be different.

William Mattison

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Rob Enderle

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Greg Biffle

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that's a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

M. Wolfe

We?d like to be able to implement different ways of looking at the service that we need, but the truth is, if the businesses that do this are not yet prepared to bid on those methods, when the industry has not reached the point you?re at yet, we have little choice.

Bob Nicholson

We had 11 or 12 bids for this one. We're getting preliminary bids in now and we expect the same kind of numbers.

Ken Wachter

We bid very low the first time, not knowing, and this time we had a much better idea. It was a much better bid this time around.

Bryan Turner

We bid this project right before everybody started having trouble with the steel. We're very fortunate, otherwise it would have cost 30 percent more than it would right now.

Doug Taylor

Unfortunately, moving the bid was the better alternative than keeping the schedule.

Gretchen Rubin

During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have no evidence at all that the allegation you cited is correct, ... I am sure it is not.

Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

James Polk

We can cite them for violations, but we don't have enforcement powers,

William Holmes

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren't in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

Michael Scharf

He needs to cite the precedents of the Yugoslavia tribunal, the Rwanda tribunal, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and domestic courts, which indicate that his response to the situation is perfectly consistent with international due process and fair trial standards.

Lawrence Dallaglio

If they want to cite me for that then the game really has gone soft.

Kelly Quinn

While users cited opportunities for improvement with each vendor, the level of satisfaction with all server vendors rated in this survey was very high within the market overall.

Brian Carter

We don't like to cite people. They are not criminals. They are hardworking individuals and, for whatever reason, let their property go.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

David Healy

With their sharp decline in market share, they have frankly got too much capacity, too many plants, too many people to be profitable in North America.

Orawin Velz

We're expecting a decline in employment because we expect the volume of originations to decline pretty significantly next year -- 20 percent.

George Shiffler

Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.

Carol Dansereau

We're glad that the percentage is lower than the prior year. But our main feeling is that when you have one out of every 10 workers having these significant declines in cholinesterase, you've got a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

Bob Lohn

We are taking the decline of these killer whales seriously and we will work to sustain and support this population.

Daniel Niles

We've seen this how many times already this year -- three? ... A lot of these names could have 50 percent downside from here. Our big issue is, are the sequential declines (in revenue) over? I'd say no.

Jane Houlihan

We've seen lead levels dramatically decline in kids, PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) levels decline, all because of direct government intervention that gets these out of the environment.

Michael Cloherty

There is a lot of following stocks around today. That was the big thing after the huge decline in the European equity markets - there was a lot of nervousness about what would happen in the U.S.

John Cridland

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one,

Paul Kurtz

Since then, we've really been on a downward slope. There are some places where we see some limited progress, but the overall strategic level of leadership -- someone who is there full time, all the time making sure programs are in place and properly funded -- that's what's lacking.

Mike Right

Since that time, it's been drifting downward ... about 10 cents. It might be time for another start up.

Shelley Berkley

This project is in a downward spiral, even members of the nuclear industry are looking for other ways to store the waste,and throwing more money at this problem-ridden albatross will not fill gaps in the science because the science is not there.

Summer Sanders

One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward?

Patrick Fearon

The fact that (core inflation) has been on a downward trend for two months is more evidence that Fed policy-makers might stop raising interest rates sooner rather than later.

Alan Simpson

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Richard Rathge

We've been on a downward trend for births since 1981, except for the last two years. Hopefully, that has bottomed out and the trend will reverse.

Robert Walberg

Overall, we'll probably see a continuation of the choppy nature of the market, probably with a slight downward bias.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Edwin Land

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Hillary Clinton

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Sung Sohn

I'm not sure we will see a big revision in February; I won't be surprised if we do not.

Jonathan Franzen

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

Katherine Paterson

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Marianne Moore

Revision is its own reward.

May Sarton

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Robin Ince

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Laurent Fabius

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Terry Tempest Williams

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

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

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Aisha Tyler

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Charice Pempengco

I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

Brad Pitt

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

Barbara Mikulski

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

Simon Van Booy

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.