Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stumpf

Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.

Joni Pugh

Somehow this town has captured my heart ... I have made a promise and a commitment here and I want to carry it out as long as I can. I'm not going to give up until I have to. I take it one day at a time.

Aftab Sherpao

Our security forces captured him today, and he is in our custody,

Eberhard Schoeneburg

Our V-boy game is ready to launch now with operators all over the world. We have even improved upon the great 3D graphics of our v-girl game as we are using motion capture animations for all scenes of the game and we have included over a dozen interactive mini games within the game. It is great fun to play.

Phil Dow

Right now, technology represents about 24 percent of the capitalization of the S&P, ... My guess is we're headed up to maybe the 20s or maybe 30 percent. If you look back historically, leading groups can capture that much of the market and I think technology's driving the market right now.

Clive Davis

Rod gets more and more comfortable in the genre with each album, and that's why he won his Grammy for the third 'Songbook.' On Volume IV, Rod inimitably captures wonderful classic standards, breathes new life into them and makes them his own.

Frank Bauer

Pioneering efforts are challenging. Risk is high. But the future payoff is tremendous. As you have seen, we have not had total success. But we have captured the imagination of the students and the general public. And we have already learned a lot from this activity. This will help us and others grow from this experience.

Matt Strauss

Players Network has positioned itself as a leader in gaming entertainment through established marketing relationships within the gaming industry and the creation of original programming that captures the essence of the gaming lifestyle. We are pleased to offer this added-value television programming exclusively to our On Demand subscribers.

Jack Foley

Last night was very good for us because it really showed it's connected with the core Saturday night group as evidenced by an increase of about 60 percent from Friday to Saturday, ... Now we're where it should be to be performing at the healthiest level we could have imagined. It continues to capture the imagination of the American public.

Richard Young

Our records show only a few dozen letters going to the mayor of Red Bank. If he says he got 200, something is wrong somewhere and we're going to find out where.

Tom Craft

Jeff is a great receiver in a league where there are probably half a dozen great receivers,

David Marin

Listed literally dozens of things (the administration) did wrong. He acknowledged more institutional failings at the White House and elsewhere than we expected.

Charles Kupchella

I did tell him I was going to issue this appeal. I have talked with no fewer than several dozen American Indians on this, him included.

Tim Anderson

Half a dozen will jump in fairly quickly.

Jami Attenberg

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

Rob Bibler

I think with Huston, you could pick a dozen films.

Jim Thorpe

Have not taken it out (of his bag). Last year I think I hit it a half a dozen times and never missed it. It just fits me.

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

John Foley

real movement toward better funding and toward smaller service, smaller supports and more employment, more real employment, rather than meaningless day activities.

David Holmes

Relays are the most fun thing about any meet, especially when you win them. We are lucky enough to be able to do that more often than not.

Jeremy Siegel

Relative to the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, it's very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

John Gunn

Past performance doesn't have anything to do with future performance. It's a massive delusion. It's the most insane thing in the world. You want a pick a fund with low turnover where the management has been around for a long time.

Kristin Chaney

Our main thing is to slow them down. It's fun for us to run, but we don't like to see them run.

James Huang

Our mainland policies remain the same. We still hope the two sides can sit down and make some breakthroughs in functional talks.

Martha Stewart

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player. He's a good friend, and I think he's going to have a great year. The backup's role is to always be ready. That's the purpose of preseason, to get ready for the regular season, so I feel good about the games I had and the time I was in there.

Geno Auriemma

Our offense always looks good in practice. It is games sometimes that it leaves a lot to be desired.

Keith Newman

Our No. 1 goal is to win the division, and that's still probable. But we need to turn things around ASAP. There's a lot of games left. But week by week, the season is getting shorter.

Kyrie Irving

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Dave Kinney

The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. The avionics is what the key is. They're real avionics.

Craig Barrett

Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card; then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip; and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU.

Jefferson Han

Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Mike Ortner

Lindsey has improved each time out and has been very consistent. She'll be tested. Hopefully, she can come up big for us, and make some game-changing saves.

Jim Oberdorf

I think she is great. She has improved a thousand percent.

Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Lloyd Johnston

It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Brian Young

If we included this in the price of our room, it could put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Alan Alda

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

Gary Hill

The petition included the total number of properties on the acreage, ... It did not specify that these two landowners would not be included in the annexation.

Juliet Landau

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'

Bill Gerstenmaier

I think it's wrong to take the (May) launch period and speculate whether we will make it or not. That puts schedule pressure on the teams.

Gail Davidson

One of the two main things we had going for us was that we had no money, so we couldn't just launch into making the mould because, if we had, we would have wasted a lot of time and money,

Pierre Beaudoin

Without launch orders, we could not make a launch decision.

Wayne Hale

we would not in any conceivable way be able to launch before Saturday.

Michael Mosley

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Paula McLain

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Jim Lewis

Most of the mass is simple stuff, just wires and beams, nuts and bolts. There's just no reason to launch this stuff from the space shuttle. (The expense) would kill a program dead.

Craig David

We wanted to have a quiet launch to work out the kinks beforehand,

James Barnett

We are thrilled to launch construction of our new building.

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Tom Rathbun

We need something that's going to work for the Appalachian states; any place there was mining before the 1970s, there's a real need for reclamation. And that money still only cleans up higher-priority sites; it doesn't even touch on all the non-coal quarries in need of reclamation.

Edward Seaga

I think the reception that the queen has received says something different than what the prime minister is saying.

Thomas Sugrue

The $5 minimum wage was a moment of real innovation.

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Jeff Ramsay

I don't know about that, the relevant ministry would be better positioned to tell you about the retirement.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Sam Wright

Freddie Edwards of The Sanctuary called and said the ministry will do what it can.

Kathy Harper

Because they were properly restrained they had minimal injury.

Reggie Ball

I was just going through the motions a little bit. I'm trying to work myself back in there.

Michael Malin

It is possible they were set in motion by strong wind or by a 'Mars quake,'

Sean McDonnell

His range of motion is a little limited. But he'll be fine.

James Calhoun

If we're ready to make a decision, I'm sure someone will make a motion to put it on the agenda.

Vincent Sarubbi

He was the one who really put this in motion and organized the other two younger youths.

Jack Thompson

No one has ever before survived a motion to dismiss, so we're excited.

Brian Greene

By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.

Gerald Vizenor

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

Richard Jefferies

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

David Byrne

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

Grady Little

Outstanding. He just getting his work in and getting ready for a big season.

Lois Frankel

Right now, the city, we're calm, we're under control, we're ready to go,

Samuel Pahlsson

Rested? I don't know, but I'm ready to go.

Paul Davis

I think this team is ready to get on a roll right now. I think this is the team you're going to start seeing.

Robinson Cano

I want to win a World Series, so I'm going down to spring training and get ready for the season.

Ben Broussard

I went up there ready to hit. I didn't want to take any pitches.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

M. Thompson

I was ready to take some shots. I'm not going to be shying away from shots.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Gia Coppola

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

Luke Pasqualino

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Jennifer Ehle

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

Tony Gilroy

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.

Shawn Wayans

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

Brittany Snow

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

Debbie Allen

There were some scenes where I took ten takes and there were some where I took one.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.