Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Linda Miller

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Gilbert Lopez

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

Rob Morris

Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.

Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

David Rudow

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

Mike Viracola

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Margo Timmins

Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself.

Dennis Kucinich

Recently, it has been reported that U.S. troops are conducting military operations in Iran.

Friedrich Engels

State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous and then dies of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of the processes of production. The state is not 'abolished'. It withers way.

Senator Kerry

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their partys base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.

George Bernard Shaw

Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.

Dave Bristow

We've talked with students and the teacher and are conducting an investigation, but so far we haven't found anything to back up the allegations that were made. What we found so far seems to support the teacher's allegations.

Genderen Stort

We now have until 26 January to conduct status determination interviews.

O. J. Simpson

I will not conduct my own fire drills

Peter Hamilton

I think they've been conducting themselves in violation of a lot of different rules and regulations.

Mark Drake

I think Dean Johnson's conduct will be an issue throughout the year.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Steven Strogatz

That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate.

Craig Venter

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

Martin Winterkorn

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

William Shakespeare

For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

Mary Heininger

Henry Ford was an innovative educator, environmentalist and engineer and therefore his estate is a symbol for UM-D.

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.

Margie Feinberg

Jared Hunter no longer works for us and can never be hired here again.

Phillip Jones

I was hired two years ago, and I was shocked to find out there was no money being spent to market Dallas.

Junichiro Koizumi

I think many older people like me will really suffer. I'd like to hire them, but unfortunately we're not doing so well lately.

Tony Dungy

I did not know Rod at all when I hired him. I got his name and talked to him on the phone. That's all I needed.

David Young

I'd like to see proper construction practices on those sites. I would like to see them hire local people, local labor.

Randy Jackson

He left, went to the hotel and got his own bags. He hired his own jet back to Los Angeles. That is crazy!

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Charles Munger

I would rather throw a viper down my shirtfront than hire a compensation consultant.

Tom Smith

If (the company) hired permanent replacements, then they don't have to give the strikers their jobs back upon termination of the strike.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Dr. Manniko

This year she has qualified for the Olympics.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Pat Buchanan

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

Jack Ma

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Tom Johnson

They're very well qualified to talk about what they're going to talk about.

Charles Feaga

He registered Republican as a youngster. I think he'll support the Republican party.

Gary Sinise

I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

Tom Perry

They can't sell it until it's registered with us, which it was not.

James Dempsey

I'm not sure that Registered Traveler should be a research program.

The Jerusalem

Your son is not and was never registered here.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Pat Listach

He just did what he does. He mixes his speeds up.

John Donnelly

He's a different kind of guy. He's a slasher. (Dave) was more of a speed guy. But we'll take another Fischer.

Rich Miano

He's got to be one of the strongest safeties in the nation. He's got the strength and the speed and the quickness.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Brad Dancer

He doesn't talk about it. He's a tough guy. You can see it in his speed and some of his movement.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.