Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Hughes

The problem with rising short-term bond yields is that they boost the cost of acquiring and servicing credit, and thus they stifle domestic demand.

James Walsh

The people interested in acquiring the rights believe that his book ('Golden Boy,' Simon & Schuster Inc.) would be the basis for a very solid screen play. Wouldn't you think of him as sort of the first leading man in professional sports? I mean, the women were crazy over Paul.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Wang Jianlin

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.

Christopher Cox

There is no question that the People's Republic of China and the People's Liberation Army are intent on acquiring U.S. military technology.

David H. Murdock

Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.

Steven Thomas

She has been known to take the aggressive stance, instilling in everyone that they should only be acquiring established and well-documented objects.

Robert Johnston

Since we began acquiring stock we always thought this was a very good company with great prospects that maybe was not performing up to its potential.

Richard Greenfield

Mitigating the price increases of ESPN is not something Comcast has to do by acquiring Disney now. It's now something that's just happening,

Steve Cotterill

We were asleep. I think if I'm honest Norwich deserved all three points. We had our chances - it could have been 5-4 - but I think in the end 2-1 was probably a fair reflection.

Christi Elias

We have played better. We missed some chances as Mercy Cross did a great job defending.

Ryan Holmes

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

John McWhorter

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Fabio Capello

We deserved the win even if it did come from a mistake by their keeper. He had an incredible night, we created plenty of chances but he just pulled off one great save after another.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Nikolai Spassky

There are chances of a peaceful solution to the Iranian problem.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Mike Drass

We made a lot of mistakes and have to learn from those mistakes. They converted four fourth-down conversions. We have to play better in those crucial situations if we are going to keep playing for the next 10 games and hopefully further.

John Morley

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Robert Seidel

One of the things we haven't converted yet is news, but we're experimenting in Raleigh (N.C.) and a few other locales.

Frederick William Faber

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

Michael Goulde

We've converted a lot more than we did last year.

Brian Lynch

Ty Turner's running strong. He's a converted lineman to fullback. He's done a phenomenal job putting his head down and running the football.

Becky G

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Ashwin Sanghi

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Alan Yates

The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Denny Plyler

We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

Paul Browne

There is no information to suggest any New York hotels are targeted,

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Ernest Johnson

People are getting kicked out of hotels as we speak. It sends a mixed message. ... We are saying we have destruction and we need aid, and then we're having a party.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Estelle Perrault

We had two hotels then - the James and the Waldorf.

Scott Mills

It's not on a steam table getting older and older. My whole thing from being with restaurants and hotels is keeping it fresh.

Grant Mayer

It's about getting players used to the surroundings. We're probably going to be in the UK 15 times this year and it's important we get used to the travel, the hotels and the food.

Markel Humphrey

Hotels and gyms, that's it. At the tournament we went to the mall one time, but that was all.

Carol Leifer

If you thought you didn't like some people on land...

C. S. Lewis

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

Abba Eban

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

Charles Dickens

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Charles Stross

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Michael Duffy

The poorer performance of the stock market relative to the land market makes it attractive.

Dave Freudenthal

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Derrick Jensen

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Ivan Lathouders

But because of the limited information, we do not really know why that is the case.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Roger Lewis

With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

Anita Sarkeesian

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

Scott Draper

This will be a first-come-first-serve procedure. We have only a limited number of slots available.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Mark Hatfield

The reality is, in most airports you don't have the luxury of that much space.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Charles Lamb

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Brian K. Vaughan

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Brad Pitt

I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be--cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,.

Juvenal

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Calvin Trillin

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Walt Dabney

The reality is parks are in serious trouble. Unless you own your own ranch, the parks are what most Texans have to go to.

Brian McKnight

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Aziz Ansari

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Maxine Shane

We would be cooperative if state parks wants it.

Birdman

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

Andrew Spano

It is one of the safest parks in the world.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.