Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Eivind Reiten

We need regulatory clearance which we do not expect to be a problem.

Dennis Rine

Lance hasn't been able to practice much. He didn't get clearance to play until Friday.

Ernie Speranza

We make decisions on what will go on clearance at the last possible moment.

James Johnson

He hasn't got clearance from us to do anything. He can't just arbitrarily decide that he wants to do that.

Mitch Frazier

We just have to get clearance with Mother Nature.

Richard Jaffe

We're optimistic for the retail sector this fall. We think that the consumer will come back into stores. July is primarily a clearance month, and we think we have accomplished what had to be done in July, liquidating all the spring merchandise. So, the stores are well positioned,

Bob Schnorbus

Simply put, if the '03 had high incentives earlier this year before the clearance started, then the '04 are likely to have it sooner rather than later. The automakers want to give the '04 a trial period to see how they move without incentives. But they won't wait long, maybe only a month.

Paul Walsh

Last year the summer season started in late May when temperatures hit the mid-90s. So we've really got a late start to summer. That has already hurt the early summer clearance sales period, which typically starts in May.

David Messing

We weren't able to obtain the necessary security clearance from the Department of Homeland Security.

Erich Roeckner

Our research pointed to rapid global warming and the shifting of climate zones. Our climate models predict warmer and drier summers for Europe, with warmer and wetter winters.

Ronnie Mamoepa

Our principal objective remains the need to create a climate for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe so that the Zimbabwean people can speak through the ballot.

Jacqueline McGlade

Our resilience is quite low in the face of climate change,

Fred Taylor

The $64,000 question about the climate is why is it so different? Why is it so hot and why is the pressure so high?

George Taylor

The Antarctic is really a puzzle. A lot more research is needed to understand the degree of climate and ice trends in and around the Antarctic.

Jim Sweeney

I think we are entering a watershed era where we can expect high levels (of oil prices) not just for a transitory period, but for an extended period. We are still dominated by the traditional sources of energy. If you want to deal with global climate change, you must come to grips with oil used in transportation and coal used for electricity generation.

Margaret Beckett

It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the world can respond to climate change.

Mike Nichols

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Duane Grant

Idaho is perfect because of our climate. We have a drier climate and we can then supply dry straw for the first plant.

Tatsushi Shikano

Reflecting solid consumer spending, the real estate and retail sectors are likely to lead the improvement in the overall non-manufacturing sector.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

Howard Archer

Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.

Britt Beemer

Our research on holiday gift returns shows that it's only three percent of Americans who are real jerks and they indulge in consumer fraud and return abuse. The rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Stephen Baker

Part of the problem Sony has had in the past couple of years is that as the consumer electronics market has changed, ... A lot of it has been about lower prices and distribution and neither have been Sony's strong points.

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

O. Henry

Our mission has been to enable the service providers and network operators to deploy uninterrupted video throughout the home without interfering with other consumer devices and networking environments already in place.

Jimmy Tallent

Our operating efficiency ratio of 58.80% for the quarter is within our long-term efficiency goal of 58% to 60%, reflecting the success of our recent expansion efforts and the continued strength of our existing franchise.

James Lardner

Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.

David Cutcliffe

Steven has had a really good spring. From Day 1, even when we were out there in shorts, his demeanor was what you want in a football player. He has worked extremely hard and has continued to improve every week and every practice.

Greg Stuart

Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright.

Steven Bangert

Our placement on the list reflects the continued strength of our earnings over the past decade, and we have every intention of earning a spot on the Honor Roll for many years to come.

Hunter Harrison

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.

Tom Ryan

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Steven Rogel

Our results reflect the strong U.S. housing market and continued unsettled world markets for pulp, paper and packaging products.

John Reed

Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets,

Bruce George

Regrettably, despite some efforts which were undertaken to improve the process, the authorities did not exhibit sufficient political will to hold a genuinely good election.

Sal Guatieri

Price pressures were fairly mild, despite the economy operating flat out.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

John Longworth

Some held earlier and longer summer sales despite margins already being very tight, but there has been little sign in this survey of a response from consumers.

Melissa Richardson

Our team has always thought we were going to do as well as we did. We set our goals high. We had winning league and going to state on our goal sheet. So despite what everyone else thought, we thought we could.

Sushmita Banerjee

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Jay Bavlish

That was a microcosm of our whole season. I couldn't put it any clearer. We dug ourselves a hole and despite the effort, we couldn't get out.

Mike Harper

I was proud of our kids. They found a way to win despite losing a starter right before the game.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Todd Martin

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

Lawrence Eagles

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Lawrence Summers

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

Dick Nyman

Stephen was pressed into duty last season and did a nice job. He is driven to succeed and works hard to improve. Last year's experience will come in handy for him.

Todd Smith

Some of the evidence suggests that (Cooper) was shot here in town, then wrapped up and driven 45 miles out to Signal Mountain.

Jim Murren

Our revenues exceeded what most people were looking for on the gaming side, and on the non-gaming side, particularly driven by our hotel revenue and food and beverage, (revenues) also were pleasant surprises for us.

Corin Tucker

I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.

Mike Bryant

That was one of our top priorities. Once it goes that way, it's driven very, very quickly toward Malibu.

Peter Currie

That strength is driven by improving markets and better visibility, with particular strength in our wireless and optical portfolios.

Kaoru Yosano

Overall, (the recovery) is progressing forward in a well-balanced fashion.

Bill Burgess

Our ultimate goal is to have all landlords maintain their properties in a safe and sanitary fashion.

Beck

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

Azzedine Alaia

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

Azzedine Alaia

Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.

Azzedine Alaia

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

Azzedine Alaia

I make clothes, women make fashion.

Azzedine Alaia

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

Dr. Drazen

We need people to fill out all the fields in a meaningful fashion. Everyone ought to know what's going on.

Steve Rogers

Some of the manufacturing layoffs were offset by gains in retail.

Nestor Aguila

Some investors opted to pocket gains after the two-week trading halt.

Scott Kirby

Our systems are very highly tailored to what we do. You don't get any productivity gains from outsourcing.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

Toni Sacconaghi

Overall, it seems unlikely that Dell's share gains would be enough to offset the potential loss of Intel marketing monies.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Peter Chandler

It has been a good day for the index. Toronto has held up very well and held its gains better than the Dow or the Nasdaq,

Alan Ackerman

I think gains in the market have outrun fundamentals. The move has been too much too soon. I see the likelihood of a pullback next week.

Alex Wong

Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

John Prescott

Our primary responsibility ... is to do everything possible to provide the highest level of protection to the public.

Tom Daschle

Our right to privacy is at risk. As a result, some of our most sensitive, private matters end up on databases that are then sold to the highest bidder. That is wrong, it's dangerous, and it has to stop.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Jim Tharp

That's the highest percentage of women I can ever remember for one of our films. Clearly, we needed more romantic-minded men to show up.

John Beilein

I think Louisville is playing at the highest level they have all year.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt, and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I think that's probably the highest score I could have for the way I'm playing.

Bonnie Warschauer

KFC uses only the highest quality ingredients in all the meals we freshly prepare in our restaurant kitchens.

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

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.

Mickey Levy

Regardless of who is president, it looks like they will not have a mandate.

David Buckner

Some of New Orleans looks beautiful--and the other half--there's a lot of work ahead. If theres a time estimate, I'd say probably about 2 to 5 years before everything is back to normal,

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report. It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report, ... It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

Danny Sullivan

Overall it looks interesting but I don't know if they have anything that the other people couldn't match if they are lacking,

Michael Wuertz

Right now, the catcher's glove looks about as small as it's going to get. I don't think it can get any smaller.

Jack Lengyel

Red, he looks just like you. He stands like you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I couldn't look at you and breath at the same time.

Barry Manilow

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Bharati Mukherjee

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Bill Bryson

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

Steve Miller

I get many notes from hourly workers, a lot of them angry. And they say some unkind things about me,

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Cristy McKinney

I'm starting a senior in the post and they just whipped her.

Junichiro Koizumi

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Des Browne

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Brooke Svendsen

We planted a post back to stop those quick attacks.

Bernard Ebbers

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Bill Bryson

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bethenny Frankel

I despise shopping and department stores.

William Leach

I think they've been shopping this around for a while,

Bill Vaughan

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

Jim Daniels

I am just so used to shopping there.

Michael Williams

I was in the shop for 72-hour days, sleep for 16 hours, and then go to a final.

John Rhys-Davies

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

Pat Brown

I think it's gorgeous. I think I'll be shopping here a lot.

Simon Bird

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Shawn Gilmer

If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.