Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Marshall

We want to show people how music has affected us in a positive way.

David Allen

Ultimately, the consumer is going to be affected to the extent that they will have less discretionary money to spend,

Robert Elliott

We appreciate that dental benefits are probably not on the minds of these folks right now, but we still want them to know that we won't be conducting business as usual and won't cancel coverage for those groups unable to pay premiums or update their eligibility. Ironically, this announcement may be our best means of letting the affected groups know they have at least one less thing to worry about.

Robert Latham

We applaud FEMA for extending the opportunity for government agencies and private non-profits affected by Katrina to apply for assistance that may be available to them.

Jim Richardson

We are pleased to report that all employees and staff are safe and that service to our clients has not been affected as the result of the tornado -- all systems are up and running and all files remain secure. We will continue to offer the same level of service to our clients during our temporary relocation.

Andy Miller

We are pleased to award more than $105,000 in grants to support project planning and evaluation projects for organizations like the Northern Appalachia Cancer Network and Penn State Cancer Institute. Together, we are enhancing the quality of life for people affected by cancer.

Malcolm Speed

We believe that's the best way that cricket can show it's remorse, can show the people of the countries that have been affected that we're thinking of them and we're concerned to do whatever we can to ease the suffering at this terrible time.

Ron Hill

There are certain areas (of the markets) that are obviously going to be dramatically affected with a Gore or a Bush victory,

Chris Spencer

We stopped collection efforts in the zip codes affected and set up financial relief packages.

Torrell Martin

We knew they'd go to him at the end. I stayed with him. He hit a great shot. That's what great players do. I was in his face. I almost blocked it. I was devastated when it went in.

Sonny Perdue

We know getting a drivers license is something that touches almost all of us - it's a high-volume business but it doesn't have to be high-aggravation,

Carl Tobias

very articulate but sort of reserved, almost kind of shy. And so I think he is a very likable sort of person.

Mike Birbiglia

Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.

Louis Navellier

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Mika

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Michael Strahan

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

Mohsin Hamid

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Sheriff White

We want him and every one of those associates to know there's nothing we won't do to catch him.

Christi Gallagher

We are all one team in the store. We disagree with excluding over 360 other associates from such an important decision.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

William Mills

What we did is we got friends of ours, usually college students ... to drive me and some of my associates down to Orlando and Jacksonville or wherever we needed to go, and we got a lot of work done on the way, ... We used laptops and stuff.

Marc Benioff

When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is,

Owen Davis

We have helpful associates who can help customers make the right selection. We also offer courteous, fast checkout.

Shannon Patten

Many of our associates attach significance to holding more shares. As a stockholder, I am thrilled about the outcome of the vote.

Chris Brathwaite

We want to make sure the stores have the flexibility to utilize associates in a way that allows them to more efficiently and effectively serve customers.

Ron Hill

I think these companies (are) starting to get more interested in mainframes and security again, and for one-stop shopping, Computer Associates offers a little bit of all these things in one place, ... So, I think the earnings movement is just now coming back to this company.

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Walter Smith

(Walker) is continuing to eat up Peach County and he's gonna eat up some more - all the way up to (Interstate) 75. And if he can jump over there, he can do that too.

Alexander Medvedev

Ukraine has wasted time in these talks, and now there can be no talk of US$160. The market situation has changed, and it's continuing to change.

Rich DiPentima

The point of this whole thing is to look at your continuing operations within your infrastructure.

Monte Shaw

We are proud to welcome Corn, LP as the 21st ethanol plant in Iowa. This plant is a showcase of the continuing innovation and improvement in the ethanol industry.

Giles Morgan

We're in continuing dialogue and we're hoping it'll be resolved as soon as possible.

Ted Saskin

We spent the last four days in small group meetings continuing to review and negotiate various systemic and economic issues. The two sides will resume small group discussions on Monday in Toronto.

Diane Forden

Where is our National Guard when we need them? Theyre over in Iraq, ... Why is our government continuing to pursue the wrong priorities?

Jeff Todd

We've got guys that are young. They're getting a lot of experience at the varsity level, but with a young team you see young mistakes. Still, I see we are continuing to improve.

Jason Silva

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Michelle Malkin

Low point of the address: Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something tacky about having the leader of the free world reading a phone number from the teleprompter? Also, it's been three weeks and they're only now publicizing a number for Katrina families looking for missing relatives? Nowpublic.com and countless other sites like it were up and running by 9am on Aug. 30. Just saying...

Kyrie Irving

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

Dule Hill

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

Nicolle Wallace

He loves his rug. I've heard him describe it countless times.

Prince Charles

My sentiments today are those of a proud and loving son, who hopes that you will join with me in wishing the queen the happiest of happy birthdays, together with the fervent prayer that there will be countless memorable returns of the day.

Dan Goldin

We have only 44 launches to go and about a thousand hours of spacewalks and countless problems and countless issues.

Jim Hendry

Nobody is here at the park longer than Larry. And the pitchers recognize that. He spends countless hours trying to make them better mechanically and mentally.

James Snyder

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Maxine Clark

We know what the (Friends2BMade) customers like: They like pink, pink and pink, and they like purple, purple and purple.

Craig Beilinson

We know customers can't just flip a switch and move to a new OS. We want to make sure they simply deploy the pieces they're ready for, when they're ready for them.

Shane Evangelist

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

Peter Graf

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Joe Ivers

Vehicles that engage customers immediately upon first sight tend to keep those customers around to learn more about the vehicles.

Alex Czajkowski

Vegas is where all our customers go. But you can't just jump on a plane to Vegas every time you want to place a bet.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

Wes Walz

We know we've got a lot of ground to make up. Guys talking about how many wins we need. We need one win (tonight). That's all we've got to look forward to, and then we'll worry about the next game when it comes.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Paula Pearson

We've all been looking forward to this match all season as we do every year.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Ross Randall

We struggled this week with the weather. We are looking forward to getting back and practicing to get ready for our next tournament.

Hani Durzy

We are looking forward to Wednesday and having our day in front of the Supreme Court.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Anton Chekhov

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

David Joy

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Jag Gill

The only time I've seen a problem with trying to find parking there was during Hurricane Rita.

Gene Edwards

If a hurricane starts barreling down on one of our refiners, we have procedures in place, ... and if it looks like we will have a big power failure, we will shut down the refineries.

Maya MacGuineas

There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Ron Hays

We're sending stuff to Katrina through America's Second Harvest. We're supporting the network.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Mark Zandi

Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

George H. W. Bush

...Whatever the road that lies ahead, that road will take me home.

Fernando Rospigliosi

He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.

Phil Klay

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Leo Tolstoy

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Tom Bosley

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Amy Heckerling

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Neil Flynn

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Tarantino, per se, but I like several of his movies very much, probably 'Reservoir Dogs' the most of them.

Annalee Newitz

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Paul Dergarabedian

We're getting to the point where people only want to go out to see movies that are as big as the screen. They want to see 'event movies' like 'Kong.' The rest they'll wait for.

Charles de Gaulle

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

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.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Michael Griffin

Our Russian partners have steadfastly sustained the station while the shuttle has been down.

Susan Howarth

Our partners are thrilled because we're providing them with something they can't do on their own.

Bill Gates

Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Dianne Feinstein

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

Dianne Feinstein

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

J. Hoover

It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there.

Chrisette Michele

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Charles Stross

I do not click on random youtube videos.

Dave Franco

I wouldn't be where I am without these Funny or Die videos in general. When I was first starting out, I would take roles just to get the experience, but not exactly because I believed in the projects I was doing.

Dean Cain

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

David Brenner

We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

Bengie Molina

When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.

Chad Hurley

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation,

Todrick Hall

The number one question I'm asked as a YouTuber every day is, 'How can I get my videos out there; how can I make my videos go viral?'

Dan Aykroyd

Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

C.C. Sabathia

Just one. But I've watched the video of it about 200 times.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.