Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

William Geist

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

Tyler Oakley

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Eleanor Catton

My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.

Andrew Bird

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

Mary Pemberton

Going to meet with Billy really brings home the fact that Tae Bo and what it all means is taking control of your life. It's not about being size two or getting into a bikini. Seeing Billy amplified the fact that Tae Bo is a lifestyle more than just an exercise class.

Alex Shoumatoff

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

Lord Browne

The recent hurricanes in the U.S. have impacted our results. However, underlying performance is strong, amplified by high but volatile prices of oil, gas and products, ... We anticipate production from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to be back to normal, with the exception of the Shell-operated Mars project, by the end of the year.

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Bertolt Brecht

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Peter McKay

Watchfire has taken its significant experience in the financial services market and developed a new banking compliance module to automate the cumbersome and daunting process of identifying online compliance risks specific to the banking industry for faster resolution and prevention,

Andrew Bell

What we're seeing is people banking enormous profits in these stocks.

Diane Wagner

We're expanding our branches in the Florida market, going to full banking centers to focus on customer service.

Jan Bowman

We're banking on these kids that come to take over.

Ricky Romero

We're banking on coming back to nothing, ... or not coming back at all.

Kenneth C. Griffin

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Bryan Sanderson

The place is growing very rapidly and the banking sector is growing as a multiple of that.

Kimberly Williams

The people who do survive - when they get that last treatment - they begin seeing the light.

Denis Pombriant

Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.

Christine Martino

We are pretty confident that the usability and visual enhancements to the Linux desktop will fuel more growth in this market. We think this should give customers more choice and confidence to begin integrating open solutions.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Matt Silverman

We are pleased to begin a relationship with one of our country's premier cancer centers. We are particularly excited because of the community outreach initiatives that are integrated into this partnership. We are not only focused on bringing more marketing partners into the Rays family, but also developing relationships such as this, in which the community benefits as well.

Bruce Kennedy

We've about got it done. We're staged up and ready to begin construction on this.

Gary Knell

We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

Maury Harris

We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it begins to lift rates.

Tom Forseth

We have some charter business, but most of our money is made through the regularly scheduled runs.

Florence Shapiro

This problem that you have in Houston right now is the poster child for why we in the Legislature want to fix charter schools,

Godfrey Gao

Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I'll need a private plane to charter the international waters!

Justin Trudeau

People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.

John Simmonds

We don't have enough information or expertise to supervise a finance director. We just spent two years looking for a finance director as good as (the retired) Mike McPhail. As soon as they heard (it was a charter officer), they were turned off immediately.

Paul Kreutzer

We don't know if we can do that (a charter school) with our current staffing.

Tran Duc Luong

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Don Sherwood

On February 22, 1855, Pennsylvania Governor William Pollock signed the charter that created what is today The Pennsylvania State University.

Paul Allen

Neil is a proven, talented executive with the right combination of operational, marketing and customer service skills to lead Charter to the next level.

John Savage

When you think about all these people looking to live here and the commerce and housing that entails, you've really got to do some planning.

Patricia Clark

We have seen a move on the part of the (Illinois Commerce Commission) and the state and the utilities to try to introduce competition into these industries, and for various reasons it hasn't really worked for any of them.

Michael Leunig

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

Mark Jarvis

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

Dean Koontz

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

Steve Ballmer

Today's announcements underscore our commitment to executing decisively and rapidly in the online services space by forming a seasoned management team that is dedicated to improving and facilitating commerce for consumers,

David Pressly

We are pleased that Commerce Secretary Gutierrez heeded our concerns, and showed a willingness to work with our industry and consider the needs of American consumers.

Jodie Bernstein

We don't intend to let a handful of rogues erode consumer confidence in Internet commerce or Internet auctions.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

Ron DeHaven

The potential for this virus to have an impact on commercial poultry production is significant. Having said that, we have been dealing with (milder) avian influenza viruses for decades ... finding it, containing it, and eradicating it.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that nonresidential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that non-residential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Laura Benanti

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Noel Wells

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Gregg Thompson

We're mainly a commercial and industrial contractor, but every year we do two or three high-end homes or home additions,

Darrel Good

The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.

Kofi Annan

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

Eric Johnson

There are concerns as to whether Ralph will continue to make headlines that are harmful to the party.

Samuel Bodman

There are concerns about the supply of natural gas,

John Connolly

There are some concerns there, which will probably see us including quite a number of props in our training squad so that we can get a handle on it. Getting the front row right is expected to be an evolving process.

Toshihiko Matsuno

There are some concerns that stock prices may be too high, and that seems to be weighing on the market.

Tom Schrader

There are some concerns about retail sales but they don't seem to be weighing on the market.

Felix Lanters

There are some big concerns about the U.S. economy and the stock market will struggle a bit. Interest rates do matter.

Ten Eyck

The reason for a review is concerns relating to the way that parents have some say and participation, ... Our problem is the process is so limited. They're looking at the bylaws with the intent to modify them for parental participation.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Stanley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Charles Spurgeon

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker

Al Jarreau

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Chloe Grace Moretz

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Chinua Achebe

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

David Boreanaz

The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic.

Dennis Miller

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Louis Armstrong

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Jon Fredrikson

We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

Rick Perlstein

I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own.

Bible Bible

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Pierre Bonnard

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

William Hummer

We're entering a seasonal period now, pre-Thanksgiving, pre-December holidays, where we often see a stock advance,

Allen Newton

We're about out of industrial property at the interstate. It's one of those things when you're looking for property, you need a lot.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

Al Jourgensen

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Brian Rogers

The prospective is amazing. You really get the feel of looking down on this Pittsburgh industrial neighborhood.

John Coniglio

There is a real promise for this product for the industrial market.

John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Jacques Chirac

must seek to take the lead in industrial and research innovation.

Steven Johnson

I think you need to lower your industrial tax rates.

Mark Cuban

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Jerry Thompson

We would put a deposit in to secure the loan. To me, that takes us out of the loan business.

Stuart Pearce

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said 'no', I don't think they want him to go anywhere.

Donald Trump

I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. I don't deal there. I have no businesses there. I have no loans from Russia.

Donald Trump

I started with a $1 million loan. I agree with that. It's a $1 million loan. But I built a phenomenal company.

Tony Pulis

I wouldn't be surprised if Preston signed somebody this week. They've got the money to go out and spend a loan fee.

Peter Jackson

He is still on loan for another week and we will look to get something sorted out around then.

Kemal Dervis

Turkey could not have obtained loans under better conditions.

Thane Bublitz

Over the longer-term, Countrywide is well positioned. There is too much loan production capacity. The servicing portfolio should offset that as originations slow.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Ludwig von Mises

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

Danny Hale

We've done a lot of mixing and matching. We haven't had that 11 together that we're going to go with.

Steve Alexander

We have some mixing to do at the recording studio tonight. We'll go over there at about 1 A.M., and stay until about 8. Then we'll crash.

Emanuel Ungaro

The '60s were free, innocent, without pressure. I did what I wanted to do. Remember when I was mixing prints. I started that in 1969 and '70,

Hiroyuki Sanada

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.

Jeff Carter

He was mixing well tonight. He has an idea of what he wants to do out there and he does it.

Dennis Driscoll

Those three have been setting the pace, and others are mixing in and out.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.