Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Martinez

Reed Elsevier has long been recognized as a leader in using technology to strategically build its business, while Microsoft has been at the forefront in helping publishing businesses find solutions to the fundamental changes that are required in the new digital era. Together, we've charted a new course that will provide Reed Elsevier with significant competitive advantages as the company continues the fast-paced growth of its online properties.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team. We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team, ... We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Ted Spadaro

Our players have to understand that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, getting to play the No. 2 team in the state. You get that opportunity, try to take advantage of it, and you take it from there.

Reed Hastings

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

John Schwarz

Organizations are placing a premium on the value of accurate, complete, and timely information. Enterprise information management provides Business Objects with a significant competitive advantage in what we can offer our customers, and we expect it to play an important role in our future growth plans.

Paul Fix

Patience is going to be key around the narrow circuit. I'm close enough to the lead pack, I intend to stay with the lead pack and take advantage of any opportunities that come my way,

Steve Mansfield

Paying people to search and share what they've found is a concept that's gaining in popularity. Community and social search is the wave of the future, but these types of sites need to quickly build high-quality, human-indexed content, and their members are looking for the motivation to participate in this effort. Further, advertisers are anxious to take advantage of targeting large groups of users that are all interested in common products and services, which PreFound.com provides.

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Michael Dell

Sure. We do not have an exclusive relationship with Intel.

Keith Henson

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.

Donna Shalala

She has the right stuff, ... And having the right stuff is not something that is exclusive to one chromosome or another.

John Ridley

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

Thalia

Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection.

Mark Luscombe

There are a lot of little wrinkles as to how exclusive the use of the office has to be.

Gerald Levin

We've declared openly that this is not about any exclusive arrangement with respect to content,

Jonathan Zuck

We don't have exclusive documents, ... We don't shred our trash and still won't after this.

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Andy Kindler

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Mike McCurdy

(Our) listeners are known for their love of lifelong learning." ()

Mike Blakely

Some of them are not well known around here yet, like Jed & Kelley, who moved here from Tennessee,

Santiago Lyon

Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive.

Lee Peterson

Our son is innocent. We know that. We've known it from day one.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Tom Andrews

Manny was also known as 'right now.' When he wanted something done, it had to be done right now.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Richard Matvichuk

That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.

Irish Proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Harry Williams

Photo Stencil is the only Xerox-authorized stencil manufacturer to use the SMTX Electroform stencil technology, licensed under U.S. Patents 5,359,928 and 5,478,699, owned by Xerox.

Sonya Pace

He was talking about driver's licenses and he was going to be more mature when he turned 16.

Mathias Rust

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Sean Moran

If they commercialize it and they don't have a license from us, it could end up in a lawsuit.

Diane Screnci

If they're going to have license renewal, they're going to need a place to store spent fuel.

Courtney Paris

She's been talking all this madness about getting a car, and she didn't even have a license yet. The kid's silly.

Jim Balsillie

When we license this we're going to look for reputable, substantial companies,

Richard Costigan

We will be vetoing the driver's license bill.

Brad Goreski

You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.

Jennifer Gray

He did research on the Internet. He stalked the house. He stalked my brother. He's cold, he's calculating and he took out his competition.

Skylar Astin

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Mike Bradley

Heretofore it's not had all that research and those developments under one roof and under one coordinated organizational structure.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Charles Kettering

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Charles Kettering

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Mike Wallace

All I'm armed with is research.

Burt Rutan

NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

Burt Rutan

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.