Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Amaturo

We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.

Julian Jessop

There are clear expectations that the pace of appreciation is going to accelerate and that's reassuring because it's one of the key factors in easing trade tensions with the U.S..

Henry Samueli

Analog components don't 'scale' as well as digital components, but integrating them into relatively mature 28 nm platforms will accelerate the connection of everything from watches, personal healthcare, and home appliances to automotive, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, and industrial controls.

Larry Rothschild

When he gets to hitters, we can probably accelerate it pretty well. Until we get to that point, I don't want to accelerate it too much.

Bill Thornton

What we're presenting is simply an option to accelerate projects, which is tolls, and get some of these needed highway improvements done quicker.

Stephen Goldsmith

We're going to keep our commitments. We're actually going to accelerate our commitments, ... We've got a whole slew of really important things going on. It can't wait.

Peter Cardillo

Unless some real news comes out that could accelerate impeachment talks, it's probably already been discounted, ... Big deal, we're going to see the president get angry, say a few curse words.

Kevin Lewis

Unfortunately, less than five percent of people diagnosed with cancer will be treated through enrollment in a clinical trial. Our organization is very supportive of the Coalition and its efforts to accelerate research. We believe that in recent years patients have received better treatment options in trials, and if we can educate people about clinical trials I am confident that we can increase enrollment in these high-priority colon cancer trials.

David Robinson

Working closely with (TCI) as well as the other leading programmers, we believe we can accelerate the deployment of digital technology faster than if we had not done the deal,

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Clive Davis

Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, ... That makes it three in a row -- three out of three. You just can't beat that! What makes it extra special is the live format of Unplugged for the true musician -- the public really has to be passionate about the artist and the music to buy the album in these numbers.

Caleb Dolan

We are pretty intent on opening more campuses in North Carolina because the achievement gap is so great, whether you are talking about the difference between blacks and whites or the difference between eastern North Carolina and Chapel Hill.

Alexis Strauss

We are pleased to celebrate this achievement with the Navajo Nation. We'll continue to work together to protect and restore vital water resources on tribal land.

Chad Latch

There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment. Matt Stephenson wrestled really well and was in every match. It's a good point in the season for Matt to realize that he can wrestle well at a tournament like this.

Samuel Smiles

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Michael Gove

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Joseph Massey

The other stores don't seem to be hit like they are -- there was an attempted break just a week ago, ... I'm not sure if what they sell is more attractive.

Thomas Lee

The persistent efforts to develop the accreted land are unconscionable, ... Any such attempt will be vigorously opposed by the association and its members.

Leila Janah

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

John Roberts

unprecedented attempt by Congress to structure the office of the president.

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

Neal Hersh

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

Bruce Barbour

We are attempting to offer the program statewide.

David Millar

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

David Mitchell

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

Dave Barry

This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.

Blu Cantrell

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Eddie Guerrero

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

David Duchovny

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Dick Dale

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Bobby Heenan

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Liu Bolin

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

James Grant

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

Prince Charles

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

Nancy Parrott

If a patron chooses to purchase tickets through a third party, they do so at their own risk.

Steve Slifer

If the Fed chooses to do something less than that (half-percentage point), then you're going to have this major disappointment in the financial markets.

Steve Johnson

If the individual chooses not to report on the return the government doesn't often find out about it,

Clive Sinclair

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

David May

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

Jess Walter

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

Craig Thompson

We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.

Monica Tooley

Usually corners are sure goals for us. We probably score on one out of three.

Haley Barbour

The fact is the storm overwhelmed all of the system, ... Now, we're little by little trying to get back. We've turned some corners, but we've got a lot of corners left to turn.

David Baltimore

So I don't know where he cut corners and where he didn't.

Kate Klise

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

Marvin Cox

She really got me to understand perspectives on portraits -- the way your eyes line up with your ears and your pupils line up with the corners of your lips. Your finger is the same length as your nose. Your forearm is the same length as your feet.

Lovie Smith

Great size, great guy, great leader. Outstanding speed, outstanding size. How many corners do you see with size like that?

Jon Gruden

With Milloy and Troy Vincent and the corners they have to go with this front seven, they're dangerous.

Charles de Lint

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Charles de Lint

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

Charles Stanley

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

Charles Spurgeon

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

David Hilbert

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

Artur Schnabel

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

Charles Dickens

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

William Shakespeare

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Bryant H. McGill

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Deepak Chopra

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

George Hansen

He's a proven quantity here. - He has a tremendous mastery of his off-speed stuff and he can really mix it up.

Oswald Chambers

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

Gregory Bateson

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Frantz Fanon

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Jenny Offill

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

John Norman

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Ariel Winter

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage