Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Monica Lewinsky

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing a rising increase in children coming through our children's emergency center with injuries.

Allison Watson

We started the push by presenting to partners the importance of people being at the center of how Microsoft delivers value in research and development and for customers.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Don Haddox

We start a lot form Tom's feet at center back. Stefan takes over at the midfield and controls things from that point on. He's more or less the distribution source for everything. And Jon and Steve are just really solid workhorses in the midfield. They could play in every minute of every game and through overtime. They're just real fit specimens.

Johnny Estrada

We spotted him that one run. My freakin' terrible throw went to center field. Give a guy like that a one-run cushion when he's got his 'A' game . . . that's tough.

Jim Becka

When you travel through Montgomery County and notice the white crosses on the sides of the roads, keep in mind that the nearest trauma center to each cross is downtown Houston. The 2007 Texas Legislature will consider appropriating money for more trauma centers. If elected to the hospital district board, I plan on putting Montgomery County at the front of the line for one of these new facilities.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

John Bolton

We are preparing a resolution for the full council to adopt. It would impose the sanctions. It's a down payment, and certainly not the end of the sanctions process.

Michael Dell

There are certainly very high-growth markets outside the U.S.. China is the fourth-largest market in the world for Dell to sell its products and we're growing fast there.

Alan Davis

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

David Hallberg

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

Nadine Smith

There are certainly issues that keep people from pursuing hate-crime charges. It's a system that's fraught with challenges because of the under-reporting.

Charles Clark

There are certainly hundreds of individuals who we have been watching very closely and continue to watch extremely closely ... because of the threat they offer,

R. Robinson

There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to have fully clarified,

Patricio Navia

She must be a president whose content, and not just her style, are different from Lagos'. Lagos did some very good things, but Chile needs to do a number of more good things to keep moving forward. Continuing the same policies will not make Chile a developed nation in 10 years.

Arthur Lewis

Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Justin Higgins

I expect our embassy in Chile will keep on top of this issue.

Esteban Montes

I feel that Chile continues to be a safe place for Chileans and foreigners alike.

Isabel Allende

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.

Isabel Allende

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Barclays Capital

While strikes in Chile rarely tend to last for very long, any disruption to production or shipments will lend support to copper prices given the strong demand environment and lack of spare material.

Michelle Bachelet

Who would have thought 20, 10, five years ago, that Chile would elect a woman president? ... Thank you for inviting me to lead this voyage.

David Almacy

We have an excellent, long-standing relationship with Chile and look forward to working with the new president and her team.

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.

Jay Pultz

There are some economies of scale that can be eked out primarily in people costs. But the real payoff is too far into the future.

Kenneth Fisher

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

Kenneth Fisher

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.

Thomas Shannon

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

Helen Lau

I am upbeat about the Yuanmeng series, because it helps Lenovo gain more market share and hence lets Lenovo enjoy economies of scale.

Charles Hill

I don't think we're really seeing the impact yet of what's happening in the economies over there.

Gwyn Hacche

Growth in euro-land economies is starting to come through, particularly in the industrial sector. It looks to us as if there will be strong growth in the third and fourth quarter of around 1 percent.

Hank Fishkind

I think the implications are positive. Worldwide, what you see is, when you have more participation by minorities in commerce, the more vibrant their economies are.

Chuck D.

Up there, we were able to show a very significant impact because the economies are more compressed around the beach, ... The local (Manatee-Sarasota) economy is not as diverse.

Charles Spurgeon

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

Chita Rivera

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

Chinua Achebe

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

David Crystal

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Dave Barry

Actually, there are people from all ove - not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.

Carl Sagan

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Cesar Romero

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Cesar Romero

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

Carter G. Woodson

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

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.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Fazlul Haque

I am uncertain about shipping our products on time.

Deanna Anderson

Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Rep. Taylor

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Khare Hawkins

You do have to be fashionable because you do represent us. If you are part of this troupe, you must look the part at all times.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.