Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Herzog

We're not convinced that the major manufacturers will succeed in getting the $1 billion ...but this battle could lead to another settlement (and) an ironclad partnership between the states and tobacco manufacturers.

Bengie Molina

Like he always is: Tough to hit. Myself, I was horrible today at the plate so I have to give him credit. I think with him you have to battle all day. He's the kind of guy that's going to work quick and try to get you out quick.

Ron King

Like every freshman entering college, he's going to have to mature. He's going to be in battles every day.

James Lancaster

Luckily, Larry chose the school. Kenny Battle had seen him in a summer league and he sent him here. We were fortunate.

Sam Veda

Life has been compared with a battle and rightly so, as each day comes up with a new set of challenges which we must meet. One can just not shy away from the problems if he has to survive. He has to meet to challenges with courage.

Dan Brown

Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out. It's a book about big ideas, you can love them or you can hate them. But we're all talking about them, and that's really the point.

Dan Brown

Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out.

Dave Cottle

Last year was a battle and we expect a battle this year. We're going to have to play well to win, that's for sure.

Steve Holland

Senate leaders warned President George W. Bush on Wednesday that his next nominee to the Supreme Court will likely face a far more contentious confirmation battle than John Roberts, who is poised to become U.S. chief justice.

Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

Auggie Tantillo

Manipulated currency, non-performing loans made by Chinese state-run banks, intellectual property theft and other state-sponsored subsidies are the driving forces behind the job-destroying US trade deficit with China.

Andy Roberts

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set it us back. On the next shift they scored another one to put us behind the 8-ball.

Jared Dudley

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Make no mistake. We face a very difficult job once we get the pomp behind us tomorrow,

Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Shaun Alexander

Mack Strong is the difference between us and the Philadelphia Eagles. We can get behind him and run all day.

Edie Bailey

Life is too short to waste our precious time with stress and frustration. We should concentrate instead on the many things we have to be grateful for.

Brent Guy

Leon did a fine job of running the football. Toward the end of the game, he didn't do a few things we wanted him to do. He lost his concentration a little bit. But we're pretty pleased with the way he handled the game. He ran well and took some big hits. He's going to do nothing but get better.

Shaun Micheel

Obviously I'm disappointed with what happened on the eighth hole. I think I just lost my concentration a little bit.

Rob Domagalski

Free throws win games. That shows great concentration and it shows how we're maturing. Not having one senior, we're continuing to mature as the season goes on.

Willie Mitchell

For some reason, we lose focus and let them get back in the game. To give up as many points as we did is just a lack of concentration on our part. We need to do a better job and we will.

Richie Meade

I would have liked to see us play with more focus and concentration longer into this game. We played well in the first quarter and well into the second quarter, and then we just flattened out a little bit.

Elena Likhovtseva

I guess I lost my concentration when I got hurt. I could serve okay but it was difficult to run side-to-side. But credit to Karolina, she still played well today.

Jeff Suppan

I had a tough time with my slider; it was off the plate a lot. I work on staying focused and keeping my concentration at the level it needs to be. Sometimes, it may take five pitches to get that one out.

Francesca Schiavone

I had to think about my match and my games and my concentration because it's not easy to stay there every point. She is good -- (but) she missed a lot today.

Norman Mineta

Leave the Engine On While I'm Speaking About Saving Fuel,

Carl Guardino

Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.

Charlene Li

Search engine users aren't terribly loyal, so a better or more targeted technology could make headway.

Jonathan Zittrain

Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.

Jessie Stricchiola

Search engines are no longer giving up log data.

Jim Olson

None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

Oliver E. Williamson

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Wang Jianlin

Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

Edsger Dijkstra

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Juan Palacios

Making it to the Final Four last year was amazing. It was special.

Michael Graf

Looks like we're finally going to make it this February.

Jimmy Johnson

Last year was tough at the end. This year we want to make sure that we're mentally able to make it through all 36 races and especially in the final 10, regardless if we're on top of the world or if we're going through a tough time.

James Augustine

Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.

Carlos Emmons

Last year we would look at film and see linebackers not getting touched and making plays. I was like, 'If we don't get touched I'll make every play.' So finally we get to run around and make plays.

Jeff Caldwell

Last year we were the host and we didn't have a lot to be happy about because we weren't playing - especially when we made the Final Four the previous year.

Rory Bremner

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Oprah Winfrey

SEND ME BACK TO PRISON! My final plea is to you Miss Winfrey, ... The Oprah Winfrey Show.

David Gallop

So finally it is time for kick off ... and what a season it is going to be.

Dick DeGuerin

Now we can really take the gloves off.

Jimmy Rollins

I had two good swings there. That's part of baseball. You don't get rewarded for good swings all the time. You have guys there with gloves and that's what they're paid to do is get you out.

Pat Bowlin

She struggled. She started good, but then she put on these wool gloves and got a rash. Her hands turned raw. We had to tape her hands up for her to play.

George Foreman

It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.

Vincent Tan

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

Dejan Delic

We're really good friends. We used to go out all the time in the middle of winter and play (basketball) with our gloves on.

Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

Paul Bliss

We give them gloves and put them right in there. We don't pull any punches.

Robert Buchanan

There's no question that Wal-Mart is 'taking the gloves off' on price heading into the holiday,

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Terry Trippler

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

Steve Hofstetter

I don't know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe it's because when you're headed somewhere, you don't have to be where you've already been.

Tony Crescenzi

Treasury yields look headed to 5 percent by the May 10 (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and possibly 5.25 percent by the June 29th.

Mark Kulda

We were kind of in the middle of the road. We're in the top 20 and probably headed to the top 15.

Jim Ledford

Yes it's true. He's headed to Oklahoma State.

Angelo Wright

He'll come in, sit down with those guys, see where they're headed and if it's a fit.

J. Taylor

We're on the right track and headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, we're out of track.

Anthony Chan

I think we're headed in the right direction.

Jordan Leopold

Mac said he thought he got a piece of it so it wasn't a surprise. We got the win and that's all that matters.

Kevin McClatchy

Mac really didn't have major-league managerial experience, and we probably wouldn't want to go that route again,

Robert Rennie

Machinery orders are important and the better-than-expected numbers will be yen-supportive.

Marvin Brown

Machine owners know they're illegal. They've been warned, and they just won't take them out.

Edward Hirsch

'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

Bernie Mac

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Dee Hock

Only fools worship their tools

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.