Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Sarah Lowe

We knew they were talented. We didn't come out with the focus and composure we needed against a team like that.

David McClure

We knew they were good three-point shooters and we knew they were real good running their set plays against man (defense). We wanted to try and see how they would do against a zone and it worked for us tonight." ()

Phil Murphy

We knew they were fast and we still panicked. We would have liked a little more time, but you don't get that against a team like that.

Jeff Mittie

We knew they hadn't been going to their bench as much, but all their players are dangerous. They obviously had a lot of reserves step up against us. Their depth makes them a much tougher team.

John Pearson

We knew they'd press. We didn't handle the ball as well as we wanted and dug ourselves a huge hole. Against Hilton Head Prep, you can't pull yourself back from that far. I thought we put ourselves in position to win.

Paul Lundberg

We knew they could shoot. We'd seen them down by 17 against North Attleboro and cut it to a point.

Chris Davis

We know what we're up against with them. I think our kids that ran into them head-to-head showed that we're not too bad at wrestling either.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Rocky Jarvis

We knew they were going to be tough. They were strong and very deep in singles. It created some real challenges for us.

Mike Bair

We know what our program challenges are and we're working through them together.

Jim DiNello

We know we're going to have tough challenges in the second half. Our schedule gets significantly harder.

Bill Belichick

We know we're facing different challenges and our team is evolving differently. It's all just part of it. Whatever you have to deal with, whatever changes there are, then collectively as a team you manage them.

Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Steve Jobs

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Dennis Galbraith

Vehicle shoppers come to automotive sites with a wide range of shopping patterns, Internet skills, Internet connections, computer configurations, automotive understanding and automotive vocabulary. Creating one site that works well for so many new-vehicle shoppers is an extraordinary challenge, but Lexus has demonstrated that it can be done.

Dave Barry

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

Al Goodman

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Robin Schneider

(We) are pleased to see them join Dell and H-P in providing free computer recycling for their customers.

Lucien Engelen

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Keith Miller

We know what we can do. This team has plenty of talent and potential; now it's up to us to just go out there and continue to make a name for ourselves.

Ray Brown

We know we've got to play better offensively to continue in this tournament.

Levance Fields

We know he's going to be all right and we've just got to continue our game plan. We're a little sick right now. That's all it is. Hopefully, it doesn't turn out any worse than it is. But we can't just stop.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Terry Lanni

Vegas will continue to grow and it will sustain downward trends.

David Holmes

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Louise Leakey

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Demetri Martin

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

Jim Shaw

We have seen an increase in the pace of digital phone sales during the early part of the third quarter.

Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

David Cohen

We're in the process of transition as an industry, so there's still?a need for a specialist group to handle digital media. It's a matter of maturity.

Barry Levinson

Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.

Brian K. Vaughan

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

Jack Kilby

I think they now have a very good position. Their digital signal processing is right in the mainstream of the future development.

Greg Steinhoff

We've always been looking, everywhere we can, to find money for the life sciences.

Jeff McCracken

We're in good shape. The system's working everywhere it should. This is a wet storm, but there's not a lot of snow to melt like there was in '96-'97." ()

Peter Johnston

There is no question, ... everywhere is getting warmer.

Tyga

I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me.

Toots Thielemans

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

Friedrich List

liberty and civilisation have everywhere and at all times emanated from towns

Carl Sandburg

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere

Markos Kyprianou

Given that the virus is everywhere now, it's a problem that will stay for some time.

Michelle Nixon

Girl, you've been everywhere there's been a microphone and a stage.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

Dawn Staley

We faced elimination, so we know what it feels like. Seattle doesn't at this point, so it (the pressure) is going to be on them. They're supposed to win.

Mike Angel

We faced a team with a lot of athleticism and a lot of length. That made it more difficult.

Todd Abbott

We faced a really good pitcher our first game.

Kirk Maltby

We faced a lot of great goaltending in Nashville, so we're familiar with it,

Randy Osnes

We faced a kid last night that threw different than what we saw tonight, so we had to make some adjustments.

Frank Poirot

We faced a choice. Low and wide, or tall and narrow.

Meir Soloveichik

When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.

Jose Rizal

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

Gene Green

We're seeing more practices with multiple locations. ... Interest rates have been favorable for ownership.

Kent Richland

She feels the outcome will be favorable to her.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Bill Richardson

I think it is important that we get a favorable vote. I think it is doable. If we don't ... get approval, and we do go, we're going to lose some international prestige.

John Challenger

It is a favorable sign that retailers have not joined in the job-cutting spree,

Jamie Jackson

We've generally become favorable of shorter-dated (agencies) inside of five years as of December. Spreads widened out, more so in the front of curve.

Jon Gruden

It goes hand-in-hand, ... You run the ball, you're going to have time of possession and it is going to have a favorable impact on the defense.

Ralph Hake

Our sales growth in the quarter reflected the Amana acquisition and strong sales of higher-margin major appliances, ... That favorable sales mix improved operating income.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Leo Hindery

The platform has now been established. The networks will need to come in and morph,

Robert Scoble

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

Stuart Levey

Identifying and designating supporters of WMD proliferation disrupts the networks that are vital to illicit weapons programs.

Gus Sauter

We have a patent on our Vipers ETF structure that we invented,

Craig McHugh

We're pleased about the patent and the protection it provides us. We're evaluating all the alternatives.

Lamar S. Smith

I think patent trolls are abusing the system.

Ronald Riley

Even if the patent is bad, it still has value if you can get someone to pay you to go away.

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Thorstein Veblen

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Bill Johnson

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

John Carlson

Then, and only then, they should put a small part of their portfolio in this.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Family is a transitive property.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bernard Kouchner

There is no question of legislating for the moment. One must actually protect the ill.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Arlen Specter

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

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Bob DuPuy

I think we're doing much better player-wise, but I think we need to reach out to African-American fans.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Elaine Deck

Someone has to be the first to reach out.

Lonnie Bunch

That support allows me to reach out and do the work we need to do.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Dolly Parton

For me, these songs are not really political, but more a sign of the times, ... I see them as songs of hope, songs with strong messages, songs that take on a new relevance today.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings