Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Nancy Giles

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

Mark Ferguson

Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high-elevation saddles between mountaintops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Al Ries

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

Rex Garrett

We want to try to buy the land next year. I want to see if that's a good estimate on our part.

Chloe Sevigny

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

Michael Gartenberg

Vendors want to see you buy fully-configured, high-end systems. The question is, are there legions of users who resisted purchasing at that price? All of the major vendors are having systems in the sub-$1,000 range to offer new purchasers a chance.

Gil Gutknecht

Ultimately, we think the VA is probably going to end up buying literally thousands of these,

Hani Durzy

Ultimately, this is between the buyer and seller. This is just a venue.

Ted Schadler

Ultimately, it's the consumer that's going to judge whether a new machine is faster than an older one. The chip inside doesn't matter to the buyer as much as the computing experience.

Jack Baker

Until earnings and forecasts start turning around, we are going to stay stuck in this tight trading range. There is no incentive for buyers to get back in the market.

Louis Navellier

I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.

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.

Elton Brand

We knew they were white-hot and were winning a lot of ballgames, but we were confident coming in. Even down four at the half, we were still confident. We knew that once we made our adjustments, we'd be OK in the second half.

Doug Johnson

We knew they were going to wheel it over in his direction. We were yelling at him from the sidelines to watch out for the ball. But I don't know that he needed us to tell him that. He knew it was coming and just jumped in front of the receiver.

Julie Futch

We knew they were coming out for us. Especially after what happened last year.

Darnell Lazare

We knew they were a great defensive team coming into this. We knew it wasn't going to be easy. We just couldn't get our shots to fall to keep it close.

Bonnie Henrickson

We know who is coming in here and how much better we have to be.

Brian Reece

We know we have a good foundation coming back. The fact we got to this point and we're in position to do this hopefully puts a little thirst and a little hunger in our guys' stomachs for next season.

Ben Carlson

We know we can't continue like we have for years. We need more race days, higher purses, and we need to reduce the costs of the horsemen coming to the track. Unfortunately, we can't make a move in that direction in 2006, but hopefully in the future we can come out of it and continue.

Steve Smith

We know how good we are. This game that's coming up will just give us an indication: can we rise to the occasion when we need to?

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Ken Leonard

We know him in terms of his relationship directly with the company.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Alan Cooper

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

Alan Cooper

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Alan Cooper

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Chris Campbell

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

Chip Kidd

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Mardy Collins

We lacked that intensity the last 2 minutes because we figured the game was over. We've got to finish games better than that.

Bobby Bowden

We've always had problems with Wake Forest. It looks like they've figured out their problems and found themselves.

Gene Corrigan

Tom was the one who figured that out. Tom is the one who led us here.

Alan Paller

There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infections. We haven't figured what they are doing. But we are seeing a very big wave of scanning.

Roger Wyer

When I figured out I had to write a book, I wasn't afraid.

Ted Chiang

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

Scott McKenzie

When I got the call, first thing I did was, I thanked God, ... I figured that if God leads you to it, God will lead you through it.

Rick Clark

We were close. I figured that if we could make them think they might lose, we could win.

Scott Browne

(Olivia) would hold onto my pockets and follow me like a caboose. Then she figured out, hey I can do that.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Jack McKeon

We're going to get a net so he can't go through the dugout.

Randy Falco

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

Al Franken

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Joe Barton

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

John Smedley

We know what we're doing now and we're going to take it to the next level.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Shamil Basayev

live participant of that operation who is ready to testify.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

William Bratton

We have a very robust counter-terrorism operation here in LA, similar to New York and Washington because we are always a prime target,

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Stephen Davis

We know we'll be successful with this operation. The only question is the price we'll pay.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Margaret Thatcher

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Rafael Ramirez

We have said that this is a structural issue, not a short-term factor, and the price is going to stay the same,

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Bret Easton Ellis

Price. You're priceless.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Bill Hybels

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,