Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonya Boralv

We have no plans to acquire Napster, nor do we have plans to develop a music store at this time.

James Rubin

We have no illusions about China an d will continue to operate with the expectation that China, like many other countries, will seek to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses.

Felipe Alou

We have no control on what's going to happen. He could be acquired by another team or he could just walk away from us. That would be a setback for us, because we know he is capable of pitching well, and he could end up doing it for someone else.

Alexander Paris

We've seen Warren Buffett take positions and ultimately acquire companies

Eric Hoffer

The real ""haves"" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them

Selman Waksman

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We are not bothering anyone, but we have acquired nuclear expertise and we want to benefit from it to improve our life.

David Simons

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

Mike Harper

We have seen an average increase of about 6 percent this year over last year. The growth we have seen is driving up the value of property throughout the county. Of course, you have some areas that have seen more increases than others, but just about everyone will see an increase in their taxes paid.

Jeff Price

We have seen a large increase in the deployment of what is called a 'storage area network,' which is hardware to provide storage for multiple servers. What we've done in Windows Server 2003 R2 is make it much easier to deploy and manage storage on a SAN using Windows Server.

Chuck D.

We have to guide growth into areas where we have planned infrastructure, or the individual developer has to kick in the cost to provide the infrastructure.

Jim Ferraro

We have no interest in (leaving). That's one area I can tell you right now that's important all the way up the organization.

Jesse Owens

We have no idea what we'll find, really. This area has never been examined. This portion of Mud Creek has never been studied.

Ralph Leck

We have no democracy in the most important area of our lives ... work.

Tom Schrader

We have negative news coming out of the home builders this morning, and obviously that's been an area that has led the economy.

David Piper

We have so many other areas with road and drainage needs, I have a problem with that. I've been working day and night to get Somerset Lane and Pine Avenue paved. You get to the north end of Pine Avenue and it looks like a Third World country.

Luther Jackson

Whenever you have one entity that is controlling news over that big of an area it poses concerns. I don't see where, in the long run, delivering less news is going to be good for readers, the community, or the industry.

Craig Heinselman

The real excitement will be when the first face is up and running. That's when the Wow' stuff is going to be appearing.

Chet Williamson

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Jon Jansen

We've got more work to do. The excitement is fun and it will last for a little while, but we've got some goals that are still out there.

Bertrand Russell

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Daniel Handler

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

Kevin Corrigan

I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

Sherry Murphy

What a huge opportunity for our community. We're just giddy with excitement over this.

John Maloney

I'm a little disappointed in the excitement about GM closing. I don't feel it, but I know others do. We need to help these people keep their jobs.

Dani Shapiro

I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

Atsushi Yanagisawa

We have no problem in our formation. This is a result of our hard work. I'm going to show what I've learned from my experiences in Italy from now on. I'm going to play my best, looking forward to the World Cup.

Howard Wolfson

We want New Yorkers to see the real Hillary and obviously we're looking forward to it.

Lindy Ruff

We were a shadow of ourselves. I couldn't find one forward I liked tonight.

Paul Casey

There is a lot of golf still to be played this year and I'm really looking forward to the rest of the year.

Rachel Means

There is a lot more responsibility on us this year. But we're looking forward to it.

David Trimble

The process is moving forward and the process is moving forward towards a particular result and towards completion. and the sooner we get there the happier everyone in Northern Ireland will be,

Tom Hodgkinson

We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

Tim Hearn

We're just trying to find that path forward and we'd like to go to hearings, but we're not there yet.

Tom Gonsalves

We're just trying to become a better team. We've got to get better for the playoffs. We take two steps forward and one step back.

D. James

There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after work. A new guy could come in and see what the latest news was and what's going on in sports. Before people had TV and telephones it was one of the only meeting places we had; one of the only places to go and get local news.

Richard Smith

We strive to provide a place of gathering and understanding where people of all socioeconomic backgrounds can come together,

Mike Mason

There is no nuclear- or radiation-monitoring program targeting mosques or other places of gathering by Muslim or any other particular group of citizens.

Melissa Caldwell

We're just gathering and labeling information, ... We're not telling people what they should be offended by.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Susan Lyne

Music helps set the tone for any occasion. Martha's selections for this compilation will make any holiday gathering more festive.

Susan Lyne

Music helps set the tone for any occasion, ... Martha's selections for this compilation will make any holiday gathering more festive. We're very pleased to team with SONY BMG, the ideal distribution partner for this venture.

Gene Luen Yang

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Thomas Mallon

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.

Tom Hulce

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Brian Eno

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Ewa Kopacz

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Alan Keyes

Would you join me in repudiating that kind of racial slur, to apologize?

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Tim O'Brien

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

David Tibbs

We have so many weapons we don't have enough footballs. But the thing I was proud of is that we weren't selfish.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Alan Sugar

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

David Krumholtz

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Jason Bay

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.