Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Gansky

Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers.

Roberto Bertollini

Until 10 years ago, we were mostly dealing with predictions and scenarios. Now, unfortunately, in the last few years, we are able to see and measure actual effects.

Eivind Reiten

We are primarily buying an exploration company - with huge exploration area compared to the actual production,

Mark Fields

We started introducing clear pricing two years ago. The success of Mustang and Fusion proves that it works. We will bring sticker prices more in line with actual transaction prices and cap 'cash on the hood' rebates as we introduce new cars and trucks into the marketplace. It will protect our margins and consumers, too, through higher resale values.

Steve Outing

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story should be sacred.

Nicolas Roeg

Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece.

Noel Wells

I think the process of 'SNL' is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people's tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don't know how much actual scouting they do online.

Herbert A. Simon

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

Helen George

I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!

Mark Fox

The only assurance we have is, because we won our league, we would be in the NIT. All respect to the NIT, but that's not where these kids want to go.

Lewis Hallam

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Bill Watterson

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Gary Milhollin

We don't have any assurance that the Indians or the Pakistanis have such systems,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.

Tony Clark

Simplifying rates, making folks who are in similar circumstances pay similar amounts, and doing it in such a way that it seems to be fair to both business and residential customers ... gives me assurance that it's the right thing to do.

Gregg Laskoski

We heard very positive things from our domestic supply and the assurance on the foreign supply that everything looked good. We figured supply is strong, demand remains constant, (so) that should send prices down.

David S. Goyer

Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

David Milne

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Dan Garrett

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

Felix Lanters

The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.

Jim Leech

We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.

Richard Thalheimer

We are maintaining intense efforts on good merchandising, marketing and the gauging of customers' tastes and demands. We are focused on introducing many new products that we believe will be attractive to our customers.

Amy Domini

We believe that there are attractive investment opportunities in Europe -- for mutual fund investors generally, and social investors in particular,

Akira Takei

We are going to see recovery in Europe and Japan, and that will make investment in those other countries more attractive and make for a weaker dollar.

Justin Rattner

We are going to see a whole generation of much more user-friendly systems which are more attractive for use in the home.

Doug Hamilton

We are a team whose mission is to compete for and win championships. I strongly feel that now is the time for us to make a change in order to give us the best possible chance to live up to this mission. This marketplace has the savviest, most demanding fans in the U.S., and we must provide them with a more entertaining and attractive product on the field.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Michael Moriarty

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ken Jackson

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Scott Henderson

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar,

Ray Kelly

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

John Harbaugh

We're going to have to start doing a better job with our coverage teams. It's not so much that we aren't tackling. We're not staying in our lanes. All our guys are moving inside, and they're jumping to the outside.

Bruce Shearer

We're going to have to play good pass coverage and play honest. If we can stop the pass, we'll be fine.

Lalit Modi

With Nimbus Sport's excellent track record and very competitive cost, BCCI has secured for itself and its fans a fantastic level of TV coverage never before seen in India.

Larry McLothlin

We're really going to have good coverage in Durham -- all of our major arteries.

John Thune

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.

Jackie Speier

Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed SB 375 into law,

Bethany Mota

BB cream is my lifesaver! It's so light on my skin, plus it protects and gives me coverage at the same time. My favorites are from Maybelline and Smashbox.

McKayla Maroney

I really like crop tops. I like how you can dress them up or down, with jeans or a skirt and heels. I like to be showy and cute. I don't want to be in just a jacket and pants and boots.

Camila Alves

My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.

Richard J. Roberts

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.

Ben Harper

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

Craig Fugate

Many of the field hands who manage, pick and process these crops will be impacted through the loss of their jobs,

Nikki Reed

If I had more confidence, I would rock a crop top.

Lara Stone

My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.

Kat Graham

On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

Wendell Berry

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Paul James

We're in a win-win situation. If we lose, we've still done more than we expected in our first year.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Kelly Trahon

Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Greg Albrecht

We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.

Russell Robinson

We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.

Ron Haskins

Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.

Jeremy Mincey

We know what's expected of us, and we know what we need to do. We don't want to end up like two years ago.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Dave Gilmour

There are a lot of farmers who have marginal operations who just need help,

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Brian Bethune

The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production gets back on track, fish and shrimp producers can use the profits to recover their lost costs.

Brendon Smith

We do a lot to really support the local farmers and producers. We have products from about 180 local producers in our store, so we are not only selling fresher food but we are helping to support our community.

John Sulston

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

Howard Schwartz

One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information as well as get information from us.

Nicolas Cage

I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Desiderius Erasmus

Frugality is a handsome income.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Dan Ariely

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

Plato

When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Albert Einstein

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Anthony Burke

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Kathy Deck

We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory increases, something's got to give.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Fazlul Haque

I am uncertain about shipping our products on time.

Deanna Anderson

Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

David Koechner

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

Chris Liddell

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

Ozzie Guillen

I switched my mind, ... It worked for us.

Steve Squyres

It is a big step. We've really switched gears.

Kelsey Chow

I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

Tom Libby

If they were to switch back to incentives, frankly, it would undermine everything they've done.

Mohamed ElBaradei

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

Jeff Hickok

When that flipped, that was a nine-point switch in our favor.

Stan Heath

They switched some things, and we didn't read the switches very well. We just made an inadvertent pass.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Edward Kennedy

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.