Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Larry Ellison

We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,

Glenn Nick

We are at the very beginning stages today.

Richard P. Feynman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Bob Peterson

We are at the beginning stages. Are we going to be successful? Yes.

Brittany Woolley

We struggled at the beginning and I think we just ran out of time at the end.

Kevin Wallace

We still need to come out with intensity at the beginning of games. We need to carry the second half of games into the first half of the next game.

Porter Erisman

We're in a phase where Chinese companies are beginning to think with a longer-term perspective. People are starting to see that operating in a good, ethical and well-mannered way helps you survive in the long term.

Bryan Volpenhein

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

Virginia Woolf

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

Tracey Emin

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

Olli Jokinen

This will probably taste a little better in a few days but you win the bronze and the gold medals, you lose the silver.

Blake Mycoskie

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.

Buzz Aldrin

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

Henry Bessemer

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

William John Wills

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

Ahn Soo

People were willing me to be quadruple champion but the 500 is my weakest and to win the bronze made me very happy.

Calamity Jane

I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

Caitlin Moran

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

Franz Beckenbauer

Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.

Lawrence Dallaglio

We started the (northern hemisphere) season by winning (November's World Cup final) in Australia, and we have to try and finish the season by winning in Australia,

Diego Maradona

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

Adrian Bevington

We have said that when the World Cup comes back to Europe it is something that we will give serious consideration to.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Paul Guen

We were superb. We showed no weaknesses, it was a highly deserved success. Now we are going to try to take some rest before next week's French Cup match.

Diane Ackerman

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

Stephanie Jones

We're a small community. Everybody knows each other here. Everybody would love to see it put to rest. I think it will be good (for the Davis family) to have some kind of closure.

Bill Cobbs

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Paul Weller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders. I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders, ... I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Brad Coker

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Jake Delhomme

I'm all for it. Whoever we can get in there. But if it's still Stephen Davis or Steve Smith, that's fine with us, as long as we have one more point than the other team.

Tommy Haas

France will have to be reckoned with in Davis Cup. We weren't good enough today.

Joel Davis

The fact that this happened in Davis is what makes this a book, ... You'd be hard-pressed to go around Davis today and find kids this good as (John and Sabrina) were back then.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Rolly Woolsey

We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.

Craig Brown

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

Kevin Clark

She loved her two sons more than anything in this world, ... They were the highlight of her life.

Barbara Harris

She was so excited. It was the highlight of her trip.

Kevin Rudd

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

Alan Clarke

Mortgage approvals highlight a significant probability that we will see double-digit house price inflation this year. The MPC would do well to learn from last year's mistakes and react sooner rather than later.

Anthony Cordesman

Obviously every time you get a weakening of the coalition, it highlights the lack of international support for the U.S. mission.

Megan Vrabel

I was a freshman, wasn't getting many minutes and I got in and scored a basket. It was like the highlight of my year.

Richard Lynch

He was a tough player. You would always see him on those (John) Elway highlight films.

Deborah Muoio

While these findings may be somewhat discouraging news for those wishing to reverse obesity through dietary interventions, they also highlight the importance of exercise.

Sheila Nix

Our intention is really just to highlight the policy differences in the two campaigns.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Dave Nutting

We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys.

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Courtney Beasley

We're just going to get better. We learned a lot as a team, and I know I learned a lot as a player. Now, we have to take what we've learned and get better.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

King Bach

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

Junior Seau

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

D. James

We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We warmed up and got the sweat and everything going in the anticipation of the match only to have to wait another half-hour until kickoff.

Charlie Lane

We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.

Jerry McSwords

We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Ron Hutchins

We're going to take it one match at a time.

Andre Agassi

When we got done with that match I said he's a top-10 player,

Jennifer Barretta

Usually, for me, when I get through that first match the nerves go away and I can get into a groove.

Daniel Maly

We're in the same boat. I think we match up with them pretty well. It's going to come down to whoever executes the best.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Gracie Gold

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

Magdalena Neuner

I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

Kirsty Balfour

To get a medal in a world record race is just fantastic.

Michaela Dorfmeister

Today, I won the first medal for Austria. This time we are favorites.

Kim Yuna

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

Daron Rahlves

I think we should've been able to medal in every event. What Ted did was awesome. He pretty much saved our butts.

Svetlana Zhurova

He is now with my sister and I have been away for too long. So this medal is for him. For my little boy.

Marian Hossa

The real tournament starts in the medal round. Those are the important games.

Peter Judge

Sports that haven't been producing medals before are producing medals now.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Eric Shanteau

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

David Coleman

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Richard Hastings

Where there is pressure there is change, universally.

David Remnick

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Benicio Del Toro

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

Derek Hough

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Bob Dylan

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.