Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melinda Johnson

We've signed agreements with all of them. I think they're all pretty much happy campers at this point. When we couldn't give them an answer, it was frustrating for them.

Charles E. Wilson

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

Anatoly Perminov

We are preparing agreements with Americans and Europeans which will allow the creation of a single global navigation system in the future.

Fred Eckhard

We are pleased to confirm ... that indeed some progress was tentatively made on various important issues. We are not in a position to provide further details of the agreements ... because they still need to be fleshed out and confirmed by higher levels on both sides.

Scott Peterson

There are currently no negotiations, no agreements and no deals between us, We talk with everybody, including the New York Stock Exchange, all the time about possible arrangements.

Alejandro Toledo

We started and are about to finish negotiating free trade agreements

Sergei Kupriyanov

We are all at work, all the services are prepared for signing the necessary agreements in the remaining eight hours before the end of the day and the year.

Cathy Tamraz

This promotion is a reflection of the outstanding job Neil has done positioning Business Wire as truly the global leader in news distribution. He has built Business Wire's global distribution network to an unsurpassed level and has initiated myriad exclusive distribution agreements for the company throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

James Little

There is no question that these agreements represent a major step backwards for our union, ... We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

Alan Doss

We have to give the new government, initially, the benefit of the doubt. Help them get moving quickly so people see a difference. If a few years from now they sense that nothing has changed . . . there could be trouble again.

Sunita Narain

We have to get away from tiger conservation for the rich, by the rich. There has to be benefit sharing.

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Margaret Blohm

We want full and fair disclosure before the members vote. I want to know how this will benefit me.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Mark Richt

We have rules that must be adhered to by all members of our team. It's sometimes an unpleasant duty of a coach, but discipline is an important part of team unity and ultimately, team success. Hopefully, an important lesson is learned that will be of benefit in the future.

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Alan Keyes

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Anna Hadingham

We have run a number of campaigns in the past and have worked on a number of war issues, but there's virtually nothing going on on this campus in terms of human rights. This is a timely opportunity to work on a global and local level. There is a big refugee population here in the Syracuse area.

David Birdsell

The expectations game can make a lot of difference, ... But people are looking at what the campaigns say much more skeptically this year.

Stephen Cambone

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

Tom Hodgkinson

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

Ted Cruz

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

Ibrahim Hooper

We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dmitry Medvedev

Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."

Elton Brand

We have a winning record and that is a big thing for us. It feels good, but we still have a lot more to accomplish. It is a milestone we want to check off. I am just glad the organization has put the pieces around us so that we can learn and compete at the highest level.

Charles Collins

We have removed 44 lenders for that. We find out about it from consumers, other lenders or our own software that checks whether their rates are within a reasonable guideline of profitability.

Melissa Baker

The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my eye. If he had, my eye would have been saved.

Assemblyman Merkt

The reality is that this has become a game. It's done because pollsters say it's highly effective to send out a check with your name on it just before the election.

David Nelson

The outlook for the farmer owners is tremendously bright. They will receive nice checks in the mail in the next few months, and we will then look forward to communicating with our members about new opportunities.

Ted Ligety

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

Edward Ruscha

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a lot as I drive, and I know that's dangerous, but I manage to do it off to the side, with my notes on the seat.

Lupita Nyong'o

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.

Kourtney Kardashian

I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.

Dan Mclaughlin

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Trevor Bayliss

We've seen he's still got the goods on this tour and he'll be able to choose the timing of his departure.

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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

Ashwin Sanghi

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

Evangeline Lilly

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Carlos Fuentes

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Dave Andrews

We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.

Agnes Repplier

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

Charles Dickens

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Girija Vyas

We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.

Claron McFadden

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Dennis McDonald

When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

Connie Miller

When you're with this many wonderful, committed people, it just keeps you going,

Kami Roeder

We have six wins and that's a lot better than what we had last year. These are great kids and they've committed themselves to be better.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Karsten Keunecke

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

Nancy Alderman

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.

Allen Bailey

We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.

Abheek Barua

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

Tyson Slocum

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

Ed Jensen

... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.

Steve Levy

The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

Elizabeth Vargas

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Dave Lewis

We are pleased to have Henrik and Daniel under contract for another year,

Ron Walker

We have it in the contract that we are the first race, so we are not worried about that.

Trent Taylor

We're holding off negotiations for a contract to see if there is any new money. If it's not there, it's not there.

Kendall Jenner

Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.

John Edward

When the only shot many people have is a good job rebuilding New Orleans, the president intervened to suspend prevailing wage laws so his contractor friends can cut wages for a hard day's work,

Martina McBride

Some days I do well and I eat really healthfully. But I don't think we should deprive ourselves of anything, so some days I indulge and give in to cravings.

Laurie Colwin

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

Ernestine Rose

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

Patrick Robinson

We express regret at his passing. We also regret his untimely passing has deprived not only him but indeed all the interested parties of a judgement upon the allegations in the indictment.

Jules Verne

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

John Galsworthy

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Thomas Keneally

But my mother felt very acutely having been deprived of further education. She felt it very acutely. So there were always books.

Mary Lambert

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

Suki Waterhouse

I'm active, but I just don't like being hungry or feeling like I've deprived myself. I want to enjoy life.

Lowell Kalapa

We have programs that are designed to help people recover from their disaster losses. The tax system is not an efficient means of handing out that money, nor is it a way to ensure that money is being used wisely.

Steve Wozniak

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

L'Wren Scott

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

Thomas E. Mann

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Tim Berners-Lee

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Eric Maskin

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

E. F. Benson

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

Jeff Moore

We have safely evacuated 1,303 employees and contractors,

Terry McAteer

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

Karen Friedman

There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- the employee pension revolution!

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Cathy Mann

Where they're getting those details, we don't know. We did have three employees killed ... not four that they're reporting.

Bill Daly

We rescheduled this game because so many fans and Panthers employees have left the area, and because we want to ensure safe travels into and out of Florida for the teams and the officials. We thank the Senators and Panthers for their cooperation.

Mario Hernandez

We've got a massive operation of vendors. We want to grow this facility to 10,000 employees with Toyota and vendors.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Bob Phillips

We respect the right of our employees to organize,

Liz Boyd

We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.

Mark Connor

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Bo Ryan

We have played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly hostile environments.

Michael Quinlan

We've spoken with Essendon, but at this point it's fair to say that it might take some time to finalise a new deal.

Pansy Tlakula

The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Debbie Johnson

We are not anti-union, but we are working to protect the rights of our employees. We just want them to use fair tactics.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Valentine Vester

But we diddled them. We made an imaginary list of hotel guests. I mean two can play at that game. It was shocking, really.

Skip Bertman

If we can't play in Tiger Stadium, we might look to another site in Louisiana. A site where there are hotel rooms. Playing at Lafayette might be a possibility. But we're not there yet.

Michel Alaby

There are already 30,000 hotel rooms and around 70,000 people are already living at the place.

Paul Browne

There is no information to suggest any New York hotels are targeted,

Dennis Tan

We will only start managing the hotel once the takeover is completed.

Jim McDonald

We've been down here for a lot of different celebrations, weddings and other celebrations at other times of the year other than just St. Patrick's Day, so yeah Hotel Syracuse is a name sake of the city.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Kirsten Dunst

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Charles Lynch

We're starting to see signs of life. The question is how quick the rest of the industry can scale down its infrastructure to make it viable.

Carly Fiorina

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Lajos Kossuth

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Samuel Schmid

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

Horatio Nelson

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Francis Quarles

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

Louis D. Brandeis

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Soren Kierkegaard

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Richard G. Scott

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Travis Bradberry

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

George Cunningham

We've been out there shaking the bushes. We're going to have to reach out to our churches.

Richard Wagoner

While it may have taken some time to reach this solution, I think it was time very well spent,

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Gordon Strachan

If I said to you we're signing Vieira you'd say 'what a signing that is',

Kareena Kapoor Khan

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Jayne Middlemiss

You know what you are signing up for when you become involved,

Michael Taylor

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

Mark Proctor

This is a terrific signing for us as we look to consolidate our play-off position.

Frank Langella

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.