Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italo Calvino

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Kevin Mitnick

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

David Stout

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Dave Flaskas

Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.

Ray Looze

Leila is at the threshold of becoming a world-class swimmer. With continued progress, she will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the season.

Bobby Miller

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.

John Hewitt

Liberty Tax Service is a solid contender for the franchising industry to watch. Our growth is solid in number of new franchisees and new offices. We are establishing a visible brand name that's quickly becoming known for excellent customer service and a vibrant corporate culture.

Matthew Parry

Lower second- and third-quarter demand -- as the northern hemisphere warms, less crude oil is required for heating purposes -- will result in the already over-supplied global crude-oil market becoming increasingly bloated.

Rick Perlstein

Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new driver's license to spend as much time as possible in Milwaukee's Renaissance Book Shop, a tumbledown five-story warehouse that the city was finally able to close down in 2011 for safety reasons. It was my teenage paradise.

Jeff Bell

Like all Chrysler branded products, a key component of the Chrysler 300's success is the fact that it is competitively priced and offers exceptional value in its segment, ... The Great American Package is further proof of our commitment to provide a vehicle with elegant design, inspired engineering and exceptional value.

Richard Hayne

Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing.

Dave Davis

Lucas is so special and unusual -- and so rarely around -- that it is a different kind of phenomenon, more of a brand concept. He insists on a certain kind of success.

Milton Pedraza

Luxury CEOs need to know how the target market perceives their brand's reputation and that of their competitors' (LBSI), and how customers rate their brand experience and competitors' experiences (LCEI).

Ian Wilson

Lender's number one market share position, strong brand equity and orphan status within the Kellogg's organization makes this an ideal acquisition for Aurora,

Paul Vachon

Last year was an exceptional team (in terms of chemistry), but we had been together for two years. This team is brand new. The parts were all there. You were just hoping that the parts would come together and learn their roles. I didn't expect it this soon. I expected it hopefully more next year. But it came together a lot quicker than anticipated.

Robert Eckert

Led by growth in our core brands including Barbie, Fisher-Price and Hot Wheels, Mattel has experienced increased sales domestically for the third quarter in a row,

Shawn Amos

Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.

Corey Romanak

With this loss, I still see us being a strong contender for the state title. I wasn't happy with the way we played tonight. ... I wasn't upset we didn't win tonight, it was how we lost.

Alonzo Mourning

We know we have to improve defensively to be a contender down the stretch. I just hope we don't run out of time.

Dave Clark

He's going to be a contender to win state.

Jose Lima

If we were a contender for the division, it would be a different story. But sometimes you just can't wait until this is over, and start all over again.

Rocky Nelson

Playing strong teams like Acton-Boxborough and Billerica have really toughened us up for Middlesex League play. A year ago we weren't ready for league play. Now we're in game shape. We'll definitely be a contender for the league title. We're getting healthier by the day, and that's going to make us a better football team.

Ian Roper

I think we'll be a contender in our conference.

Kurt Busch

It feels good to get off to a great start. But we're just two races in. I'd like to say that we're a championship contender with the way we ended last year and we'll just try to keep our momentum rolling forward.

Robert Castellini

We didn't get involved with the Reds to wallow in mediocrity. If that's all we have to offer, we shouldn't be hanging around. We're going to give it 110 percent to put a contender on the field.

Tim Mead

You have an owner who wants to spend what it takes to compete. You don't want fans to foot the entire bill. So you want to come up the other sources of revenue that it takes to put a perennial contender on the field.

Zhang Qi

Share prices will hinge on corporate earnings in the short term.

Maureen McCarthy

Maybe we have bottomed. But in terms of going higher, when it comes to corporate guidance, we are not hearing that.

Sara Anderson

My internship showed me a glimpse into the corporate culture of EMC and its 'Count on Me' attitude, ... Needless to say, I liked what I saw.

Scott Washburn

One of the things we've found, as have our large customers, is the need for remaining flexible within the corporate structure.

Safra A. Catz

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

Geoff Bobroff

Morningstar should stick to their knitting, which is measuring investment returns, ... They do not have the expertise to judge companies' corporate governance.

Susan Linn

We can no longer stand by while our children's health is sacrificed for corporate profits.

Peter Cardillo

From an interest rate standpoint, it's negative. On the other end, if the economy stays strong, corporate earnings will stay strong.

Colen Garrow

From this perspective, it is somewhat disappointing that corporate tax remains unchanged at 29% and that STC also remains unchanged at 12.5%.

Scott Simons

make it easy for customers to make healthy choices.

John Phillips

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

Jim Murphy

Mac support for Lotus is a check-box item. We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company's research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.

Robert Tillman

Lowe's today is in a better position to weather interest rate increases because we've shifted our customer focus,

Anne Murray

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Mohamed Ghuloom

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Howard Davidowitz

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

Peter Kelly

Many of the enterprise customers we talk with wouldn't want major updates more frequently than a two- to three-year cycle, even if Microsoft could deliver updates on a faster cycle.

Don Harrison

Seventy percent of our customers are weekend warriors who do their own work. The other 30 percent are contractors.

Kristoffer Polaha

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

Jim Greer

Libby played an excellent match. Kelly played hard. Libby just made very few mistakes.

Mike Rodriguez

Sean's a very hard worker. He's excellent on takedowns.

Jack Siedlecki

Mike has picked things up very quickly -- he is an excellent pass blocker, which allows us to keep him in the game in all our one back formations. He is still a work in progress.

Geoff Hoon

Obviously we have seen some excellent work by our police and security services, but that work must continue,

Paul Hartman

Obviously, Williams is an excellent athlete, ... He runs well and passes well. But we feel they have some other kids who are also impressive. So it's not a one man show by any stretch of the imagination.

John Locke

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

P. T. Barnum

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Frank Decker

We had a very nice run down there. We played some excellent teams.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

French Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known

Jennifer Robinson

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Plaxico Burress

I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?

Eddie Palmieri

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

Winston Varnado

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

Nevada Democrat

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change.

Granth Sahib

Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Judy Carter

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Steve Farhood

One out of 15 was able to give me the name of one of the heavyweight champions. So that tells you a lot not only about the state of the heavyweight division, but also about the state of boxing.

Elizabeth McCracken

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Telyshia Adams

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Nathan Brookwood

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Rick Burch

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Russ Howard

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Mo Johnston

He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Ambrose Bierce

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Eduardo Paes

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

Julie Kenner

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.

Steve Sanger

If there is an impact, it is not yet visible to us,

Thomas Merton

There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.