Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fadel Gheit

Part of the reason (companies are having trouble adding real reserves) is that there has not been an elephant discovery -- one over a billion barrels -- for 15 years.

Barbara Petersen

Our list is already three pages long, and we're adding on a regular basis.

Alan Miller

Step back and review your practices to make sure all your inputs are adding value and paying their way. In particular, you've got to give the high-cost items some attention. Where you get the most savings on a percentage basis may be in finding even a small reduction on a very expensive item, like fertilizer.

Don Gher

Starbucks is doing a remarkable job of adding new drinks and more stores, and the pace hasn't slowed one bit.

Brendan Morrison

Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points we're losing out on. To win games you've got to score goals, and we just aren't doing that.

Jim Taylor

Our success both on and off the pitch, particularly last season, has put us in an excellent position to grow our business. Adding both Sunderland of England and the L.A. Galaxy of MLS to our schedule speaks volumes about the growth of the Portland Timbers. It's shaping up to be a most exciting season.

E. O. Wilson

Our goal is to make it easy for our visitors to discover some of the best of what's available, ... The programs we are featuring are great for novices and experts alike. Over the next few months, we will be expanding our podcast experience with more exclusive and original programming -- from AOL and from partners -- and adding more advanced search options.

Jane Johnson

Our goal here is to have a dialogue. We're not adding any new rules or making state standards more difficult to attain. We want to create a level playing field and safe food services.

Jim Maloney

Our feeling was that this would make it a better fit for San Francisco. Adding in the component of LGBT service would be obviously quite unique.

Ron Hovsepian

Our partners are telling us that their mid-market customers want to deploy open source, but that they need a packaged Linux solution more tailored to their needs.

John Grant

Patton customers love the rich feature set, reliability, and quality of our Model 2120 Single-Port Terminal server. These device servers meet the same high standards people expect from Patton. By expanding our device-server solution set, we're giving customers more choices.

Amy Vickers

People know now that if they want them, they have to order them. Customers usually order two or three dozen.

Ram Shriram

Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

George Shaheen

Our focused efforts will help us target the majority of places where (our competitors) customers shop today - brick-and-mortar stores,

Caroline Allen

Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.

Tom Cuddy

Our goal is to keep our customers connected.

John Simley

Our feeling is that it was an incorrect interpretation and it weakens the state's environmental statutes. We have quite a few of these things. The experience indicates that customers make fewer trips of a shorter distance over time. That's a significant reduction in road miles. They're going to one place instead of 14 places to get what they need. We think that's relevant.

John Roberts

Over 35 percent of our customers run Microsoft Windows Server.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Chris Bell

Just about everyone in our state is demanding that leaders do something about the quality of education in our public schools.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

John Ellis

From number seven on I played very well. I knew just to stay in the tournament I would need to shoot three- or four-under. Fortunately, a 66 was good enough on a very demanding golf course.

Natalie Gulbis

I think it's going to be a lot of fun to play. It's very demanding off the tees and you have to hit a lot of fairways and greens.

Harry Reid

I think it signals the fact that the American people are demanding change, and the Republicans see that that's something that they have to follow,

Julia Stiles

I don't think it's easy, but if we keep on demanding that we need to have it all, then we'll get there, I'm sure. "-Julia Stiles

J. Taylor

For us the organizers of the vigil are phony-baloney, betraying the sacrifices that those, men and women make in Iraq, by demanding that we pull our troops out now and leave Iraq to go to hell. This is a publicity stunt.

James King

For the service, obviously, you have to stay in shape. You?re going to get yelled at and it?s very demanding. Marathons are very demanding too.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Frank Tashlin

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Andrew Grove

I will take any kind of developments so long as those tens of tens of millions become twice as many.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Mary Schmidt

There are so many millions of people you can't otherwise reach.

Richard Walden

It could be worth tens of millions of dollars.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Peter Kessler

For millions of people, this was their source of food,

Ajay Dua

If we have all the data... we will not have to spend all those millions of dollars.

Kevin Bankston

If state secrecy can prevent us from preserving the rights of millions upon millions of people, then there is a profound problem with the law.

Dan Newman

He may spend his tens of millions on slick TV ads, but this isn't eBay. The governor's race does not have a 'buy it now' option.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat just seized the opportunity and made the most of it.

Stephen Farrell

Our opportunity here is to provide our patients with all of their medications as a full-service pharmacy.

Jonathan Schwartz

Stay tuned on the Red Hat-Sun relationship. We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there.

Chris Huffins

Our women are very hungry. They know they have an opportunity to dethrone Stanford this year.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Barry Manilow

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Barry Manilow

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

B. D. Wong

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

B. D. Wong

I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.

Tyler Smith

Our parents paid for the sheet music. They are doing fundraisers.

Robert Parker

Just doing what I'm supposed to do! That's why I get paid the big bucks!

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Mike Jenkins

That's the hook. Sometimes we think we are taller than we are but that time it paid off.

Joey Goodspeed

That's what I get paid to do so I take a lot of pride in it,

Bob Gainey

I think it was the right reaction to the moment. We paid a price, but it wasn't too costly this time.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Nancy Kotowski

Our schools are very pleased with the results.

Richard Parsons

Overall, I'm pleased with the results from most of our businesses,

Kelly Svebek

I think they (teachers) are real pleased overall. This time of year, there's a lot of wondering.

Marc Walters

That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.

Rob Parish

I was really pleased with that considering we raced all 5A teams.

Gerald Perry

I was really pleased. I was very pleased to be honest. He could've done a lot more, but it was the first day.

Frank Allocco

I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.

Mike Dowd

I was pleased we competed well. We fought; that made a difference.

P. J. Harvey

I was pleased that she had upheld the work that we had done.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

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.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.

Antonin Scalia

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

B. F. Skinner

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.