Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rakesh Shankar

Refinery utilization still remains very weak, with refineries still lagging in their recovery from an aggressive March maintenance schedule.

William Sullivan

Our research finds that green space produces consistently positive impact, from stronger social ties to better attention skills and less aggressive behavior, helping reduce violence.

David Lucas

Our position is there are going to be aggressive incentives on 2004 pretty much right off the bat, ... The sentiment of customers is if they come in and it doesn't have a promotion on it, they'll wait until it comes on. And the automakers know that.

Fabio Capello

Parma were too aggressive in the first half, ... I knew that they would not be able to keep that pace all match long. We performed really well after the break. I picked up the right players and I am glad about the result. We were slow in the first half but we hugely improved our passing game in the second.

Lamont Bryant

Patrick is the best player in the state. There are a lot of scorers in Illinois, but how many defend and rebound the way he does? What puts him at a level with other top players is he is very athletic and plays hard all the time. He gets at least 10 points a game playing aggressive defense.

Tim Bryant

Pascagoula came out and played inspired. They were aggressive and had a good game plan. Give them credit. We were tight, but I'm proud of them for taking care of business in the second half.

Raul Ibanez

Our offense has a nice pace, a nice feel right now. We're being aggressive when we have to, being patient when we have to. Good balance up and down the lineup, good approaches at the plate.

Peter Jones

Our office will conduct a vigorous investigation and an aggressive defense on behalf of Mr. Wesson.

Brian Hill

Steve has played under control and yet at the same time has been aggressive at driving the basketball and creating opportunities. He's really played well lately.

Jim Kuhn

Surprisingly, many of our clients who are in their 50s are already planning ahead and incorporating design elements to help in the aging process.

Nancy Stoner

We need more federal help for local communities to control runoff and update their aging sewage systems.

Katsuya Okada

Japan faces problems of decreasing population, an aging society and increasing national debts. Mr. Koizumi sounds as if life will be all rosy if the postal service is privatized, but no one takes what he says seriously.

David Richardson

The answer to the challenges presented by personnel changes and aging deals is to make sure that long-term co-promotion leadership is addressed at the outset of deals. Both companies will want to ensure that partners are not only committed to the deal at its launch, but five or seven years down the road as well.

Kurt Sanger

Lithium-ion's capacity to hold a charge declines over time -- they start aging the minute they're off the production line.

George Soros

I think I lost my touch some time ago. I'm like an aging boxer that should not go into the ring,

Jose Gonzalez

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Courtney Stadd

It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable, ... ...any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human driven exploration spaceflight in the U.S. So this underscores the need to realize that NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision.

Frank Moss

I am especially thrilled to be working closely with an incredibly creative and passionate group of scientists, artists, designers and engineers who constitute the faculty and students of the lab. I see this exceptional community working together over the next decade to overcome some of the world's most pressing societal problems -- from providing improved health care to an aging population, to devising inexpensive digital tools for developing economies, to changing the way children learn.

Glenn Tilton

reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built.

Hilary Clinton

Passing this legislation today is an important step in making sure that these families, who have been through so much, receive the financial relief that they need.

Sunil Reddy

Oracle is essentially trying to get rid of a competitor. This is more of a financial transaction than a technology transaction.

Thomas McInerney

Some of this may be because financial planning is confusing,

Doreen Toben

Our strategies are really starting to take hold, and you can see it in our financial and operational results this quarter.

Trevor Fetter

Our financial results for the quarter were severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Toni Simonetti

Our financial performance is unacceptable, we know that and we've been working hard to turn around North American operations to improve our financial performance,

Niall Ferguson

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Sergei Kiriyenko

I think there remain no organizational, technical or financial problems on the joint venture establishment.

John Doran

He just comes at it from a more horizontal level.

Ryan Evanochko

Hopefully, this tells (the Horizon League) that we're dangerous.

Joe Montana

Unless they do a better job up front, neither one can throw from the horizontal position,

Chuck Clarke

We told them that we would work with them and they have not come back with us, so nothing's really on the horizon right now.

Al Franken

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Michael Dorf

Today's cutting-edge technology has broadened the horizon of possibilities for music audiences.

Joe Davis

My original projections were for us to do about $2 million the first year and maybe $4 million the second. Toyota wasn't even on the horizon when we first started planning to come to San Antonio. That was another surprise.

Jandy Nelson

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Lindy Ruff

I think that we're getting there, ... Those are two lines that could stick for a while.

Andrew Friedman

I thought it went well. I thought it was important to keep the lines of communications open.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Jacques Attali

It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.

William Collins

If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.

Robert Buchanan

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

David Heyman

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

Francis Baron

We will find alternative accommodation, probably of a more modest nature.

Mark Helprin

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

Source Unknown

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Ted Sarandos

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Brian Burke

reflect about what it would take to make the world a better place, to make things right.

Brian Burke

reflect about what it would take to make the world a better place, to make things right.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Bill Crawford

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

Carrie Chapman Catt

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

Bergen Evans

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Bill Budge

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Corey Dillon

I take (low rushing numbers) personally. That's a reflection on me.