Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Knight

Refining problems are behind the higher prices today, which have pushed Gulf Coast cash prices extremely high

Woody Allen

Recently there has been a lot of controversy between the countries, and I would hope that now the two countries could put all that behind them and start to build on what really has been a great friendship,

Damon Galgut

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Javier Aguirre

Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.

John Hughs

President Bush's speech relieved some fears that war is imminent, it boosted the overseas markets and gave us a little short-covering rally at the open, but I'm not that impressed. There's nothing behind it,

Jim Folkman

Our reputation is behind this. We want to make sure that when a house reaches a certain standard that it does perform at that level.

Chris Baca

Our players play a physical type of game. Some teams aren't used to that and don't like it, and feel we are playing dirty. But they were pushing our players from behind and knocked down a few.

Mike Beaumont

Patrick pitched well. He just didn't have anything behind him.

Kenny Gray

Payne had moments where he struggled with his control, but he pitched well. He had good defense behind him and that was good enough to get the win.

Kevin McFarland

Our main goal is to go downstate as a team. We definitely have to capitalize on the opportunity we've got.

Jeff Suppan

Some of these games, it's hard to come up with an explanation. They were able to capitalize on my mistakes and put together some good at-bats, and I didn't make pitches.

Jason Maynard

Red Hat is one of the best-positioned stocks in software and should be able to further capitalize on the growing demand for open source.

Rick Segal

Most of the productivity online is coming from SMB owners using information technology through which they're gaining utilities that previously would have taken generations to capitalize on.

Guillermo Coria

That was the key point. There was everything in this match, a lot of turnarounds, but I knew how to capitalize on my chances.

Rick Carlisle

That's a tough one. It was a tough way to get a lead then lose it. They kept playing. They kept coming. I thought we tried. We just didn't capitalize on our opportunities.

Jason Smith

I think it's really going to excite people who haven't seen it yet, and it should show we're serious about it. I think they'll see the course, how nice it is, and they'll see they're not just trying to capitalize on another silly sport.

Ralph Cole

I think Merrill should just capitalize on what they already have. As a Merrill shareholder, I wouldn't like this move.

Kathy Leitke

I thought it was really critical to come out and set the tone with the bats. In games like this it comes down to key plays, key hits, key mistakes and we were fortunate to capitalize in a situation like this.

Kevin McCabe

Regardless of the operator, the Department of Homeland Security controls all security operations in the seaport. That's our job.

Mike Shaver

Organizations will be able to set up their own update system that uses the same client-side piece, so they can control what gets updated and when. And we are scaling our own infrastructure to deal with our growing user base.

Paul Murphy

Organizations ultimately exist as information and control processing tools, and outsourcing IT therefore diminishes overall organizational value.

Tom Shepard

Organizationally, it equates parks maintenance with traffic control and sewer maintenance,

Jim Baron

Parfait played solid, he played under control and very poised.

Bill Owens

Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I think are overall going to do better regardless of whether that comes from traditional treatments or a combination of western medicine plus other alternative approaches,

Josh Towers

(Pat) Hentgen used to tell me: 'You can't control wins and losses, you can control what you do'. That's why I think for a lot of veteran guys they understand how important it is to throw a lot of innings, to get 200-plus innings,

Tom Kelley

Pat Bledsoe wrestled well. He wrestled a pretty controlled match. Four or five different times, he was in on a single leg, and we covered each time.

Brian Billick

Passion, emotion and intensity are good, but they've always got to be under control.

Robert Seiple

Relative to what's at stake, it's trivial. What was at stake was a violation of the core principle of the universality of the human right of religious liberty.

Anna Burger

Organizing is our core principle. It is our north star.

Rob Keck

Patriotism is one of the core values of the NWTF. We are indebted to our troops and veterans and honor them in any way we can.

Bob Colarossi

Part of the mission of this event is to give back to the communities that we visit. As an investment in the future of California's children, the education curriculum is a core element of that mission and will help ensure that we leave a positive footprint on communities throughout the state.

David Wright

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

Dave Brennan

Some of those jobs are still going to migrate back down to Cincinnati, where Federated is located. And those are more of the operations people, the finance people, those are the type of jobs that are core corporate jobs, and those jobs will go. So it's not that there won't be something (of a) direct impact locally. There will be some.

Simon King

Our core skill is printing variable data onto products at high speed in the manufacturing environment.

Michael Moskow

Rising oil prices, like other unfavorable price shocks, can also feed through and raise underlying core inflation, ... So there is also a risk on the inflation front, and the risk is higher now than it was a year ago.

Matthew Szulik

It is at Red Hat's very core to help unlock the power of open source and open communities.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Steve Burd

Our strategy to differentiate our offering has resulted in broad-based sales improvement.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Stephen Straus

We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment,

Sherri Coale

I think the way she's playing right now is a testament to how much she'll improve the more she plays.

Greg Lee

I think there's a lot more room for improvement. I don't think you're ever going to be as perfect as you want to be, but we're striving to be that perfect team.

Kevin Garnett

I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Bill Delahunt

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Bill Cosby

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Ashton Kutcher

I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.

Bud Selig

There is an integrity issue, and that transcends that (progress being made),

Dan Quayle

He (Gore) has a different interpretation of what integrity is all about, ... That will be an issue in this campaign.

Eddie Long

We touch a lot of people, ... This is a world-impacting ministry, and I personally get a little offended when my integrity is questioned.

Al Gore

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

John Greenwood

I think there's no understanding whatsoever of what the safety issues are.

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Dave Combs

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Selim Bingol

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

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,

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Alexandra Stoddard

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Deanna Anderson

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

Jerry Yang

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

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.

Karen Burk

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

Barbara Ryan

There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be visible in terms of products for quite some time.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Gennady Zyuganov

Our stance remains unchanged. (Chernomyrdin) doesn't even understand the program he has proposed.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Lou Holtz

I think that win really turned our program around,

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

Ken Buck

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Nancy Verderber

It is not completely solved yet be we are still working on it but I think it will be.

John Short

I thought, 'I'm the expert, I've got to have some answers,' ... 'How am I going to solve this?'

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

Gary Owens

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Ronaldo Myers

(The expansion) is going to help. But it won't solve the situation.