Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Drummond

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair made great progress and Gordon Brown and John Snow agreed on an excellent proposal for debt cancellation for many of the poorest countries.

Jennifer Smoter

Patent litigation has been amicably resolved and the parties have agreed to dismiss the patent claims.

Shimon Peres

Peace is something that needs continuous cultivating and unending dialogue, ... At Oslo it was agreed to clarify all the issues by way of dialogue at the negotiating table, without the interference of terror and violence, and that is the way to act.

Abbas Zaidi

PCB would like to clarify that its management, captain and coach had unanimously agreed to commission 'hard bouncy pitches' for the India series.

Arthur Blank

Our organization, players, coaches, and staff have agreed to take on the challenge of raising a significant amount of money, and it is our hope that our fans will join our team by doing their part as well. Together, we can make a real difference in this time of need.

Jackie McNamara

People have their own perceptions of Glenn and I know some people were surprised when I agreed to sign for him,

John Walls

Steve and Brian had very different management styles. After lengthy discussions, they agreed to part ways.

James Rubin

Our understanding is that the Contact Group in New York has agreed to a consensus text of a U.N. Security Council resolution.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs. It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companion lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. ""Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues."" Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. ""That,"" he said, ""is the story.

Paul Donovan

Rear-projection technologies will undoubtedly dominate from 50 in. onward. The incremental cost of making them bigger is much less and profit margins remain higher.

Shannon Burns

Our position is that as they grow bigger and bigger, and their tourism destinations get closer and closer, you have to question how much of a draw they will have.

Ginger Reeder

Our regular items draw bigger business for us. This year we think brooches will sell well.

Dennis Perry

Patience is the name of the game, ... I seem to do better in the bigger tournaments because I don't take as many chances.

Alan Heap

Past cycles of investor buying have proved short-lived. It's a bubble and it may get bigger before it bursts.

Jeff Simpson

partnered with these guys as opposed to bigger operators like Boyd or Harrah's.

Chris Bosh

Part of me wants to get out there, but the bigger part of me wants to see the other guys do well. If we're winning, that's all I care about.

Mike Hughes

Our little service has gotten bigger and bigger, and now they want to knock the legs out from under us.

Kelly Burke

Our only hope is that someone knows something and will make the call. The bigger the reward, the more enticing, I suppose.

David Snyder

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

Bertrand Russell

The camera is as subjective as we are.

Robert Freeman

I think it's taken up every year, sometimes more forcefully than others, but it doesn't seem to me that there's a real likelihood that would permanently guarantee the presence of cameras in the courtroom. Certainly, as time goes by, New York is going to become more and more of an aberration.

Deb Silverman

I went in without telling the women who I am, but the security cameras were rolling and I was very nervous.

Kara Lawson

It gave me a huge comfort level with cameras and speaking in public and knowing what to say and not what to say.

Karen Morgan

I think I'd probably be more comfortable with the cameras than with three people in a room.

Wayne Perry

Just minutes before I was doing this live pepper spray thing, I started getting a nasty headache. It was coming on strong and I felt like I was going to pass out from the pain, but I had to go on with the demonstration. I let the reporter spray me with live cameras rolling, and in seconds my headache was gone. I was in pain, but I knew I had something big here. I was shocked.

Don Thornton

Just mentioning that cameras are up there deters people.

June Allyson

I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.

Pat Robertson

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation

Nancy Lopez

Paula can't wait to get out of the gate. She's ready to play, so I felt playing her first was important. She has not stopped talking about playing in this event. She's excited. I love it. I want her to get out there and do it.

Marty Hickman

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

Kevin Huck

Our motivation was way up. We felt like we needed to come out and prove ourselves.

Charles Ramsey

Suffice it to say it took a few interviews, but we did get the information we felt was important at the time,

Sarah Parker

Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel.

Rod Argent

Suddenly, and for the first time in all these years, it felt honest and right to include the name 'Zombies' somewhere on the album.

I. Stone

State, repeat. It felt so good. There was, like, five seconds, and I was thinking 'hold the ball.' It felt so good.

Joe Wilhelm

Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot better on Sunday.

Donnie Walsh

Reggie is the one who made our transformation to the NBA real.

Todd Speer

I can't overemphasize how important that relationship with the NBA will be to our league.

Pat Riley

Frustration is part of this game. You have to press on. That's it. You can't let that get to you. Welcome to the NBA playoffs.

Cam Newton

Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are starting to notice.

Dikembe Mutombo

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

Dikembe Mutombo

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA is becoming a global game.

Dwight Howard

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

Dwyane Wade

I am very happy to be here in the NBA.

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

John McArthur

Networked controllers, and networked storage controllers together with supporting software, will become the strategic platform for application-aware storage.

Sundar Pichai

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

McGregor Scott

We have been a platform aspirant previously. This is our coming-out party.

Dick Costolo

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Danielle Lee

My platform ties right in with what I do.

Chris Donlay

We're just the platform to sell the items. We're not selling anything ourselves, like QVC.

Michael Morse

When it (the crane) moves, the whole platform moves. It's kind of scary,

Mike Grier

I think once you play 80 games, you're not a rookie any more.

Josh Towers

He could be the Rookie of the Year. He should be here a long time.

Michael Boulware

I had a stellar rookie year. This year has to be better.

Gilbert Arenas

He's going to be an All-Star quickly. He's my rookie of the year.

Ken Jr.

I also need to get some deodorant. Which rookie wants to run out and get me some?

Adrian Beltre

I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

Larry Brown

I thought they were a little tired, ... and then I thought down the stretch, I don't want to put the rookies in a tough situation like that.

Steve Cobb

We know (the next) rookies of the year are on those (AFL) fields, we just don't know who they are yet.

Earl Campbell

I did some good things as a rookie.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!