Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Edwards

We want to scale this across the community of users in a systematic approach to ensure we keep in mind the users' needs and requirements.

Adam Mackillop

We have seen buying across products and client types. But clearly they're being overwhelmed by the selling in New York.

David Allen

We have seen bears in the trees across from Signal Hill Elementary. Some fruit-bearing trees don't attract bears such as cherry trees because the fruit is quite small.

David Sandor

We have seen across all genders a very healthy increase in home improvement projects, particularly those geared toward the inside of the home.

Shaukat Aziz

We have as of last night opened relief centers on various proposed points of movement across the Line of Control,

Ian Shepherdson

We have no real idea what the number next week will be, but we can be pretty sure that for the next few weeks the data will tell us next to nothing about the state of the economy across the country outside the areas hit by the storm.

Gary Sheffer

We have no layoff targets and no company-wide numbers. We never announce overall layoffs because we don't plan for them across GE. We leave it up to individual businesses to decide what actions are necessary to meet their objectives. However, it's clear we'll need fewer jobs at GE because of redundancies from the Honeywell acquisition, the Montgomery Ward bankruptcy, modest volume-related reductions and GE's digitization activities.

Alastair Reynolds

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Jay Remy

We want parents to talk to kids. It's free speech. We can't stop students from participating. But if they do this, first of all, it's skipping school. And second, talk to them about safety. If you're walking across town, be careful.

Pat Gallagher

When everyone else is advertising 6 percent and then someone is advertising 12 percent it is kind of like walking around with a rock in your shoe. You're getting there but it just doesn't feel right.

Mark Mays

We have reduced our inventory capacity approximately 20%, and thus we have to continue to focus on increasing our yield per minute. We are building a new 30-second marketplace, which continues to move forward, albeit more slowly than we would hope. We are also hoping for a more robust radio and advertising environment that has not materialized yet.

Earl Cox

The creative work is a blend of past and present that is uniquely newspaper media. Newspaper media is time tested and future ready for this brave new world of advertising in the 21st century. If the industry wants the advertising community to believe that it is a vibrant media choice, it needs to believe in itself. It needs to get its swagger back.

Bill Herrle

The reality is retailers will not increase their inventories or order advertising until the governor does sign the bill.

Howard Gossage

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Yusuf Mehdi

We know we have to compete hard for our business. And we think we will offer advertisers better value because of the superior information we have about our audience.

Carlos Lopez

We know campaigns that combine extensive advertising with stepped up law enforcement get positive results. Thanks to 'Click It or Ticket,' our safety belt compliance rate has gone from 76 percent in 2001 to almost 90 percent today. We expect the net effect will be 185 fewer traffic fatalities and 3,000 fewer injuries every year.

Jef I. Richards

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

Jef I. Richards

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Gary Beard

We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.

Chris Gent

We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.

Jeff Sessions

When figures start flowing up to $200 billion, I have concerns, ... $1 billion is a lot of money.

Joshua Schwartz

We have resources to do $200 billion in contracts, but we are spending $400 billion in contracts.

Samir Mathur

The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.

Kenneth Johnson

The people moving in to Cook County every year make $1.2 billion less than those moving out.

Tim Bray

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Elon Musk

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

Samuel Smiles

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Doug Smith

This was a strong set of numbers -- we had a pretax estimate of 1.184 billion,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Euben Paracuelles

We are maintaining our full-year 2005 GDP estimate at 4.8 percent, which implies an improvement in the fourth quarter to 5.1 percent.

Gretchen Dykstra

Until you go out into the real world, the estimates are just that.

James Faucette

Most people's estimates will be going up for the fourth quarter.

David Greene

My job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we're hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16 authors.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Ted Parrish

Semi stocks won't do anything until we get guidance about estimates for 2004. Otherwise, the stocks will get really overheated.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Chris Coleman

I am glad he has tied his future to us, he forms an important part of my plans.

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Fidel Castro

Neo-liberalism and globalization and the way they are being implemented today are tantamount to new and sophisticated forms of plundering,

Bill Viola

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

Noam Chomsky

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Greg Davis

I don't think people locally are worried about it,

Joan Greenberg

I think locally we're seeing more than that.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

David Williams

There was no coordinated national effort. I think that's why people locally remembered this, but there was no national con.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Kacey Musgraves

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Amy Heckerling

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Mark Logan

Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,

Martin Nisenholtz

There comes a point at which you have to say, 'Where is the value equation?' when you are talking about online media.

Howard Rheingold

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

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.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

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

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.