Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fadel Gheit

Part of the reason (companies are having trouble adding real reserves) is that there has not been an elephant discovery -- one over a billion barrels -- for 15 years.

Barbara Petersen

Our list is already three pages long, and we're adding on a regular basis.

Alan Miller

Step back and review your practices to make sure all your inputs are adding value and paying their way. In particular, you've got to give the high-cost items some attention. Where you get the most savings on a percentage basis may be in finding even a small reduction on a very expensive item, like fertilizer.

Don Gher

Starbucks is doing a remarkable job of adding new drinks and more stores, and the pace hasn't slowed one bit.

Brendan Morrison

Our power play didn't come through. It's a bunch of little things but they're adding up to big points we're losing out on. To win games you've got to score goals, and we just aren't doing that.

Jim Taylor

Our success both on and off the pitch, particularly last season, has put us in an excellent position to grow our business. Adding both Sunderland of England and the L.A. Galaxy of MLS to our schedule speaks volumes about the growth of the Portland Timbers. It's shaping up to be a most exciting season.

E. O. Wilson

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Jane Johnson

Our goal here is to have a dialogue. We're not adding any new rules or making state standards more difficult to attain. We want to create a level playing field and safe food services.

Jim Maloney

Our feeling was that this would make it a better fit for San Francisco. Adding in the component of LGBT service would be obviously quite unique.

William Stier

Someone gave the guy a chance to move from assistant to head coach. That's where women run into that glass ceiling and get discriminated against.

Natalie Coughlin

Some keep their school ties forever, and I know I'm going to be one of those people, ... Who knows, if I get bored between Olympics, maybe I'll become an assistant coach for the team. If they'll have me, that is.

Christine Gregoire

Our farmers need help to recover from their economic losses and begin to replant for next season, ... More Washingtonians are employed by agriculture than any other industry in this state. This is about our economic vitality. We need to provide the assistant and support to help folks pull through.

Skip Laper

Our assistants and I talked about this. I don't think our younger kids are feeling the pressure at all. I don't think a lot of people were expecting them to do very much.

Rick Fox

Playing at Carolina gave me a foundation for my entire life. It was a great foundation for me. I was with great players and a great coach and assistant coaches. We all developed the belief that basketball was more than just an individual game. But it also prepared me for life, as a father and a husband and a man. How to be selfless in what you do.

Suzanne York

Physician assistants can take care of 80% to 90% of the concerns that come into a family practice office.

Paul Grant

I want to thank my assistant coach Virginia Slicker for being there this season, and I want to thank the All Saints family, the administration and the staff for believing in us.

Dwight Howard

I was just trying to make a play for my team. The last thing Randy (Magic assistant coach Randy Ayers) told me was to make a play. I just wanted to get down and play good defense.

Ryan Bishop

I think they have one of the best offensive lines I've seen. I'm telling one of my assistants in the second quarter, you take those guys to University of Utah or BYU and they're as good as some of those guys. They move their feet, they block. They're very good.

Eric Chavez

Regardless, we needed to get something on the board with that at-bat. I'm the key guy in that spot to make something happen. I didn't come through. It hurt us right there. We have to get a run in, whether it's a flyball or something else. In that situation, I'm the person you want up there -- I'm the person I want up there. Hopefully, starting tomorrow, I'll have opportunities to redeem myself.

David Galvin

Rebounding was the big difference. We knew that how we did on the boards would be key. We gave up too many offensive boards. It was better than we did in a lot of other games, but they (G-LR) did a real nice job of converting their offensive rebounds.

Peter Swire

Recent revelations show even more clearly why the board is needed. The White House has had no privacy officials, and having privacy expertise in the White House will reduce the chance of mistakes going forward.

Jason Crowell

Pat has more than 20 years of viable experience with the health-care industry. He is more than qualified to serve on this board where he will be an asset.

Howard Morton

Pat came on our board of directors in October of 2002, when we were just a year old. She lent a steadying hand to that board. She was a strong personality and a dedicated person.

Van Shaver

Our main desire is to get the board back up and functioning properly.

Nicki Harrington

Our original date to get this done was 2005, but I told the board to slow it down and do it in phases ... that moved to fall 2007. If anything, I've slowed the talk down.

Richard Cunningham

Our OMN is a great solution for firms like Moon Capital who are looking for a turnkey solution for reducing errors and improving efficiencies throughout their execution process. The openness of our solution and plug-and-play nature of our network enables us to get clients like Moon up and running quickly. We are excited to have Moon on board and are looking forward to helping them grow their business.

Mark Lewis

Our next step is to go to school board meetings to help districts define how parents and students will be notified.

Rose Williams

Recommendations were made from the survey which will be used to develop more culturally relevant services for victims of domestic violence. A committee was also formed as a result and out of that other tools may be developed.

Hashim Siddiqui

Our party has established a three-member committee to hold talks.

Michael Crane

People met as a committee informally, but as of Dec. 1, the remodeling was still an 'if'.

Michael Larson

I want to try and go into this committee with an open mind,

Craig Harris

I was a little disturbed reading that it was a done deal. The last time I checked, the School Committee sets policy, which is what I think will ultimately happen regarding sports banquets.

Laura Haase

It is a very controversial thing because there is a fine line between what's appropriate and what's not. Our committee didn't have an easy job. One person interprets 'air ball' and 'warm up the bus' as very positive and a fun thing. Another person says it's offensive and our kids get their feelings hurt.

Suzanne Kuehn

It is a wonderful job the committee volunteers have done getting the downtown refurbished after the hurricanes.

Arlen Specter

I think there is a consensus on the committee that we do not (support) the criminalization of a large number of people.

Elaine Elliott

That would be our best-case scenario. It would be historic. It would be another step forward. (The selection committee is) at least going to have to give us a serious look.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

Mayor Bingham

I will be giving a harsh look at all the finances in the city.

Ryan Holmes

Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.

Jack McCann

I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Department) of Finance and Administration would send us packages and that our officers would be paid every two weeks.

Avigdor Lieberman

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Asif Kapadia

I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.

David Nichols

has done everything he said he was going to do. In fact, he financed an expansion.

Jan Hatzius

There is a more plausible explanation for the spending slowdown, namely the withdrawal of fiscal and monetary stimulus from a household sector whose finances remain stretched,

Jody Brown

She practically ran all the finances for my volleyball camps. She's so meticulous. ... She can't come into my office without straightening things up.

Hugh Hudson

It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Stephen Hill

Later, we realized if we don't get some supplies, we're going to starve,

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.