Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bill Johnson

Relative to the overall statewide timber harvest, the net addition is relatively small. There is an effect, but it's a small one and it can be easily mitigated.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Walt Dabney

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

Yingxi Yu

Price dynamics in gold next year will continue to be largely determined by speculative interest, backed by a myriad of justifications like inflationary risks, energy-price led economic slowdown, expectations of a US dollar correction, soaring physical demand, supply-side constraints, hopes of large scale central bank buying and so on.

Mike Degory

Our quarterback position is going to take a lot of criticism, but Chris has been our guy. He has never backed down and he's done a great job.

George Roosevelt

Our officers backed off the chase because of the danger. But the suspects' car ran out of control and hit the house at about 60 (mph).

Kevin Reilly

Some of the best shows on TV start with the perception of controversy, which is usually not an issue if it's backed by quality. The intent with 'The Book of Daniel' is to make a high-quality show that is both highly entertaining and thought-provoking.

Susan Minot

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

Lauren Emerson

Just because we didn't win a championship doesn't mean we didn't have a good season. We never backed down from anything.

Billy Cox

(Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he started 'The Star Spangled Banner,' that impromptu thing, you hear the first four, five, or six notes; I'm in there with him. Then I said, 'Wait a minute, we didn't rehearse this, and it doesn't sound too good with me playing.' I backed away, and he continued and made a classic out of that.

Dick Vermeil

Larry Johnson has already carried the load. He knows he can do it. He just doesn't have a Priest Holmes backing him up like he backed up Priest Holmes.

Carl Jackson

That was very distracting for him. He backed away before hitting his second shot and said, 'Hold on, we've got more golf to play.' I could see where it broke his concentration.

Rubin Carter

Regardless of where you have been in the past, you have to go out and compete, give your best effort and don't quit. I only see a tremendous upside based on what I've been through with this program so far.

Corazon Aquino

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

John Holland

Really, when you think about what these guys are spending on racing fuel, the base price sounds expensive, but they're really not buying much each week and it's probably one of the cheapest things in their budget, ... Say the price did go up a dollar or two dollars. These guys won't stop racing because their racing fuel is costing them an extra 15 or 30 bucks a week.

Lisa Randall

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Randy Vossburg

Releasing such a statement to the media (on Tuesday) before the township even had a chance to see the documents in question showed a distinct lack of courtesy and respect by the department. Creating media frenzy did not serve anyone's best interest and undermined efforts for good faith discussions based on preparation, planning and good sound scientific advice.

Colin Masson

Relatively few manufacturers have the luxury to choose a different product mix based on energy prices.

Ricardo Alarcon

President Carter represents the future, a day when there will be a mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.

Trip Chowdhry

Our research shows that Oracle is losing some database business to IBM and Microsoft, ... Based on that, I doubt if the company can raise sales guidance.

Joe Horrigan

Our position has always been that O.J. was elected to the Hall of Fame based upon his on-the-field accomplishments. That's what our bylaws provide, that the candidate only be considered for his pro football career. And as such, he is in the Hall of Fame and will remain in the Fall of Fame.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Sam Hollenbach

Regardless of what was said, personally I think I need to improve. That's kind of the outlook I'm trying to stick with. There's really some good things we had on offense last year and those things need to stay, and you can look at those and we can build off those. He's been very specific with me on things I need to improve.

Todd Davison

Regardless of losses, people are going to build close to the water. Our program does not dictate land use.

Hosni Mubarak

regain their rights and build their independent state on their national soil with Jerusalem as its capital.

Jim Bowden

Recently, we denied another organization the opportunity to interview Dana because we view him as vital component of this franchise as we build for the future.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Joel Staff

Reliant is committed to supporting our customers and the communities where we do business. That's why when Royce Builders approached us to help this family, we gladly said yes.

Joey Spatafora

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Robert Greenwald

Releasing the film in theaters will only build upon the largest grassroots mobilization in the history of film distribution. 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' is the story of one company using its power to destroy the fabric of American life, and it is important to us that as many people as possible see it.

M. Wolfe

Preserving these historic schools builds pride and a sense of place in communities.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Kofi Annan

reflecting our mutual commitment to a stable, prosperous and equitable world.

Jason Brown

Organic to Go was founded on the principle of providing delicious, convenient breakfasts and lunches that happen to be organic and natural delivered to corporate America, Eating organic is not only good for you personally, but good for the environment. Receiving certification proves our commitment to both. We're here for the long term health of the consumer -- and the planet.

Chris Carney

States like New Jersey have already made a commitment to reduce mercury pollution by 90 percent. The technology is out there. We just need to move in that direction.

Ed Clair

Some of the Sago miners requested that the United Mine Workers be their representatives for the purposes of this investigation, and they have a right to be there. Together, the state and MSHA made a commitment to the families that we would conduct a fair, open investigation, and we decided we needed to take this extraordinary step to keep that commitment.

Scott Kriens

Our performance during the third quarter reflects the return on our commitment and focus on continued execution.

Sidney Taurel

Our strong bottom-line results in the first quarter reflect the execution on our commitment to grow sales at a faster rate than our expenses.

Wade Henderson

Our strength is the diversity of our membership and our unity of purpose, ... Unity of purpose doesn't mean we are in lock step on every issue. Janet Murguia is a strong leader who reflects deep commitment to our values.

Jude Walsh

Our commitment is to try to keep people's out-of-pocket costs no more than what it was under DEL.

Matt Silverman

Our commitment is to keep these players here for many years to come.

Jason Brown

Receiving certification assures our customer that our organic products are free from harmful additives and preservatives. From farm to desk, our products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality without compromise.

Ron Hovsepian

Our partners are telling us that their mid-market customers want to deploy open source, but that they need a packaged Linux solution more tailored to their needs.

John Grant

Patton customers love the rich feature set, reliability, and quality of our Model 2120 Single-Port Terminal server. These device servers meet the same high standards people expect from Patton. By expanding our device-server solution set, we're giving customers more choices.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Amy Vickers

People know now that if they want them, they have to order them. Customers usually order two or three dozen.

Ram Shriram

Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

Bill Hopkins

Stay away from trite ones like, 'Where the customer is always king,' because it really means nothing.

George Shaheen

Our focused efforts will help us target the majority of places where (our competitors) customers shop today - brick-and-mortar stores,

Caroline Allen

Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.

Thomas Koerfgen

Results have been much better. The market seems to be recovering. We're optimistic for the long run for European stocks.

David Byrne

required an immediate response from the European Union.

Jim Ratcliffe

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Gordon Brown

The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture.

Raul Gonzalez

It isn't true that there is an offer from Chelsea. There isn't even an offer from any other European team.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Dick Marty

It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware.

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

Sidney Taurel

Our overall growth for the next several quarters will be generated from newer product sales, line extensions of existing products and recent product launches, ... As a result, we will rely less on Prozac sales growth.

Mark Wasserman

Our priorities right now are land acquisition for parks and renovating existing parks.

Kenneth Lay

I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions.

Steve Johns

It fit perfectly into the existing kitchen space.

Nick Bell

IDMS is a set of interfaces and protocols. Before, GM did not have a single system for its dealers to use. Instead, GM would certify existing systems.

Monica Johnson

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

John B. Hood

For students, especially international students, we are focusing on not only their existing performances, but their potential for future development as well,

Jeffrey Hirsch

I think the hurricane really just exacerbates an existing situation for the market,

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

Robin Li

Our strategy has proven to be a winning strategy. We will be able to maintain and expand our position.

Anne Hendricks

It is a pilot program, and we'll be looking at how they do. We're always looking for ways to expand our services.

Charles Prince

Jim is really going to be helping us expand the footprint. We don't need a peacemaker internally.

John Barker

It gives you the opportunity to update your motel. You can expand your motel if the rooms become available.

Robert Brown

I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.

Jerry Colangelo

I think he's done a great job of positioning himself in terms of his persona and conduct. In representing his country, he can expand on that.

Stephen Phillips

I'd like to see it expand to include more artists,

Michael Jordan

I am hooked. Next year, I am looking to expand the team, looking to compete. I want to win.

John Trudell

I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Kughalo Mulatonu

Our main headquarters and all our top leaders are safe.

Sylvia Bennett

Our leaders left us to die, strangers took us in,

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Yukio Hatoyama

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

Jonathan Epstein

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Amber Bowman

Our underclassmen are really stepping up. Maggie and I, we're just trying to be the leaders out there.

Christopher Whitney

Republicans aren't thinking as they used to think on these issues. There has been a role reversal at the leadership level and it has trickled down.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

B. F. Skinner

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

B. F. Skinner

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

Vint Cerf

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

Hari Kondabolu

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

Bob Combs

Because negotiations are ongoing, we have no comment. I want to reinforce that we are not done.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Jerry Yang

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

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Arthur Koestler

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Dario Argento

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.