Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurtwood Smith

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

Ray Tanner

Let's make no mistake; he was a good hitter to begin with. But good hitters need to be strong, too. The added strength has made a lot of difference for his this year.

Tracy Brown

Lots of my clients saw it and became excited. It added credibility and created a good opportunity for me to talk to them and pitch new business. With an article about mutual funds, it's easy to move to talking about the client's portfolio.

Drew Olson

Last year's line was in the first year with Coach Cable. I think the added year has made a difference in the timing thing that's expected to be there.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a breather after the benchmark Nikkei index added more than 200 points yesterday.

John Hansen

Scott is a very important addition to our group, giving us added abilities in litigation and added experience in land use and real estate. We have tremendous opportunities for growth in the land use area in California. Scott's practice is statewide and really quite extraordinary.

Karel De

Mladic is popular and there is support for him there, but we have to put added pressure on Serbia to hand him over or at least say where he is.

Heath Gibson

Missing four players really put a bind on us and with the added 10 feet because of the court at Huntingdon College our girls got winded and we didn't have substitutes for them.

Karl Rove

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

Robin Chase

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.

Andrew Feinberg

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Mike Freeman

Luckily, very few changes were made over the years.

Cindy Moore

Making minor changes in your lifestyle is doable for most people.

Wu Xiaoling

Making interest rates and the foreign exchange rate market-oriented to reflect supply/demand changes in the market has always been a goal that we have pursued.

David Perlmutter

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

Joan Didion

Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Chris McGinnis

Lots of changes are the nature of the beast.

Rod Blagojevich

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Harry Davis

Many of the hedge fund blow-ups we've seen tend to repeat themselves.

Scott Kahan

So look at the funds you own or ones you're considering buying. All that information can only make you a smarter investor.

Dennis Miller

My interest is that there has to be some funding source in perpetuity that could maintain the land in Town Center.

Uwe Boll

My funds have grown every year and this is because my movies got the investors most of their money back, more than all the other funds.

Christopher Hill

Neither the United States nor any other participants in the six-party process is prepared to fund a light-water reactor,

Rajiv Malik

One is not sure how much of the allocated funds will land up reaching the targeted segments.

Craig Ross

None of this money was placed in water and sewer surplus, and it therefore had no impact on the fund balance.

Jeremy East

Money goes to performance, so as the funds performed well, more investors put money into those funds.

Torrie Wheat

Man, he's just magical sometimes. That first goal was unbelievable, a highlight-reel goal. Then he went to the net hard and potted two more. He's a goal scorer. He's going to do that for the rest of his career.

Heidi Martin

Making the state tournament has always been our top goal and we're just one win away from that now.

Lou Cacchio

League championship and getting back to states-that's the goal for the year.

Brent Walston

Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed.

Scott Goodale

Scott loves playing to the crowd. He'll be under a lot of pressure next year for sure. But he thrives on it. The goal now is three titles. He could end up the greatest wrestler in Jackson history.

Inaki Saez

Scoring the first goal is a weapon we have to use,

Lalit Panda

Setting high goals for your staff, and guiding them to think with an out-of-the-box mentality is important.

Brad Shaw

Miro Jr. probably needs a goal today, doesn't he?

David Beckham

Mine was a great goal but the important thing was the team winning,

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Assemblywoman Garcia

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Van Honeycutt

One thing that we've seen difficulties with is recruiting of senior management.

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

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.

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,

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.