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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Paycheck protection means protecting the paychecks of the workers. It means protecting the workers themselves. Right now, union bosses take the money out of workers' paychecks and use it without their permission.

Joshua Micah Marshall

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

Just Fontaine

Our team bosses were so convinced we would be knocked out that they only gave us three shirts each, so we were totally free from pressure.

Bill Burr

I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

Annie Schmidt

I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are boss at work. No I can't say that men are in charge.

Randy Litwiller

I was working the graveyard shift so I was home when I got the call. They told me my brother was in the mine. My boss told me why don't you just stay home.

John Stumpf

I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.

Roger Baker

It all comes down to this: Does your new boss like you or not?

Russell Schneider

Hal was aggressive, but he was a great boss because you always knew exactly where you stood with him.

Kofi Annan

such a system could run counter to efforts to halt proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

R. Robinson

Our strategy of investing in Morrison Homes in the US, has helped partially to counter the impact of more difficult trading in the UK.

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

David Gilmore

Japan increasingly needs a weaker yen to counter falling foreign demand and increased competitive pressures.

Bobby Knight

That's been our problem and when it happens to us we have not been able to counter it, and tonight we did. They did things we have not been getting done.

Bruce Hoffman

It is not to say we are completely defenseless, because the Israelis have shown you can counter suicide bombings. But shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that you can prevent all attacks,

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Maajid Nawaz

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Jeff Hill

Hartley always has a strong zone defense. They are one of the few high-school teams that plays zone defense well. The key is to figure out how to counter their zone.

Jill Stelfox

Patent infringement is a reality in the wireless space. It's an operating distraction, yes. There are only so many fights that you can pick. Though in a way, it also has a value because it ultimately shows people the value of what's being developed in this space and how important it is.

Romesh Wadhwani

I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

Leo Kottke

It is another universe. ... It's encouraging to find out that you can still flex. I did have the hunch that I had probably developed some rock-hard habits by now. But it's not like that at all.

Sol Stern

I think there are some people on the right who keep some distance from him, because they regard him as still radical. The techniques we developed at Ramparts live on. We deliberately tried to be provocative -- we went for the jugular, we could be nasty with our opponents.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Melvin Maddocks

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

Ben Kingsley

I think that the stamina, the marathon stamina that you required of your actor, I probably developed on great texts during my Shakespeare tenancy, if you like.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Cleve Touchberry

I think her leadership status has developed and is good. I think a lot of people knew about her, but her performance in the state championship game opened a lot of other people's eyes, too.

Michael Cohen

People need to understand what's proposed here is a door opener for young people. Even if it seems hard to do, it'll be harder to succeed without it.

Peter Massas

People have reacted very positively, and the recognition is good for Keyport. It's opened up a lot of doors for me.

Paul Dergarabedian

Star Wars' opened the door to the idea of a franchise that could be successful, even if a sequel doesn't do well. It made viable the idea that, with sequels, the law of diminishing returns doesn't always apply.

Jim Waters

Some local governments and local government entities feel like the flood doors are open for them to take people's property for economic development projects, and we don't think that's right.

Robert Brown

Our financial resources have run out and so the doors will soon be closing.

Kevin Kennedy

Out of respect to the people I work with, that's the way it would have to be, ... I have an 'out' in my contract, but it's not a situation where I can really solicit a job when one comes open. I've got a great gig now. If somebody has an interest, my door is always open.

Jerry O'Hara

Physical security upgrades include improvements to an external door and holding cells,

Larry Brown

Man, it was more than words can say. We opened the door and there wasn't anything sitting there.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I took three steps back; he nudged the door closed with his foot. “You like Mexican?” he asked. “I—” I’d like to know what you’re doing inside my house! “Tacos?” “Tacos?” I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. “Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese.” “I know what a taco is!

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Pay no attention. These are special interests, ... I kick their butts.

John Stevens

Our trainer is working for the other team and says they're going to kick our (butts). He says they're younger and faster.

Arsene Wenger

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Tom Golisano

I think the town was hungering for something like this. It's been a real kick to watch people rally around this team.

Curt Schilling

Last year had something to do with it, getting kicked around as much as I did. You get tired of it.

Butch Pierre

That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.

William Griffith

That's the number my staff has kicked around over the years.

Stacey Grissom

It is not going to be 14 days, and they are not going to be kicked out of the hotels. Our priority is to make sure these people have a shelter over their heads.

Will Bynum

I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Richard Ratner

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Howard Davidowitz

Kohl's is struggling badly. Not only are the not meeting sales targets, there are several questions swirling about recent management changes,

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

B. J. Novak

I do not have very much office experience.

Bill Cosby

This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.

Carl Sagan

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Terry Shea

The assessor's office respectfully disagrees with some of the court's rulings.

Chan Gailey

I think I'm going to go back to the office and see the trainers,

Michael Procopio

He walked straight into the recruitment office and he said, 'You don't have to give me any of your speeches.' He told them he wanted to sign up, and he wanted to sign up for the infantry.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Pollack

He wasn't screaming and yelling at me and cussing me. We were trying to get it solved. That's all we were doing.

Joseph Jackson

He was screaming in agony, and there was nothing we could do.

Felix Silla

Now there's a lot of yelling and screaming and hollering.

Scott Berry

There are not a lot of screaming opportunities out there.

David Bryant

We we charging in ... slapping the water and screaming at the shark: 'Hey, no, no, no.

Laura Davis

There's going to be 20,000 Americans screaming down on us all weekend,

David Kiefer

The stocks are practically screaming at you to buy.

Mike Boyd

There will be screaming and yelling and gnashing of teeth, but at the end of the day it will probably get approved. They know what's at stake.

Darren Boston

Thanks for your time. She turned around and just started screaming at me. I was embarrassed for her.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover.

Laurie McKager

Some of the (remediation) work may not have been sufficient to stand up to the weather conditions.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Larry Nelson

I want to win here, stand on the 18th green, and say I'm going to the World Series.

Richard Alseth

I will not stand here and trash and humiliate you for murdering our daughter.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Patti Hoch

That was our top relay. There's not much else I can say about that other than it was disappointing.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.