Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sir Simon

Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.

Rig Veda

Knowledge makes capable of earning knowledge. It inspires us to perform actions and as a result one acquires desired wealth.

Mark Pagel

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Joanna Stevens

There is going to be an enormous integration challenge for any company that acquires AOL.

Kate Atkinson

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

Isabella Bird

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

Dave Reichert

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.

Spencer Tracy

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Rocky Jarvis

We knew they were going to be tough. They were strong and very deep in singles. It created some real challenges for us.

Miikka Kiprusoff

We knew they have a great power play. It was a good challenge for us and we did a great job tonight.

Mike Bair

We know what our program challenges are and we're working through them together.

Jim DiNello

We know we're going to have tough challenges in the second half. Our schedule gets significantly harder.

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Ken Leonard

We know him in terms of his relationship directly with the company.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

Howard Rubenstein

The Post has enormous respect for the Asian-American community.

Liza Minnelli

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Peter Hill

We have no hesitation at all in writing about those things. The readers are massively concerned. We get so many letters. We get massive, massive response to these issues, an enormous response.

Nick Harkaway

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Joshua Rosenkranz

What we now have are the parties spending enormous amounts of soft money and pumping it into advertisements that do not even mention the party, and talk only about candidates, usually the opposing candidates.

Donald Kennedy

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

Courtney Pratt

I feel more optimistic, ... because we have a solution to the problem of the pension fund, which was an enormous problem.

Burton Greenwald

I think everyone in the industry realizes the potential here. It would be an enormous boost.