Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rakesh Shankar

Refinery utilization still remains very weak, with refineries still lagging in their recovery from an aggressive March maintenance schedule.

William Sullivan

Our research finds that green space produces consistently positive impact, from stronger social ties to better attention skills and less aggressive behavior, helping reduce violence.

David Lucas

Our position is there are going to be aggressive incentives on 2004 pretty much right off the bat, ... The sentiment of customers is if they come in and it doesn't have a promotion on it, they'll wait until it comes on. And the automakers know that.

Fabio Capello

Parma were too aggressive in the first half, ... I knew that they would not be able to keep that pace all match long. We performed really well after the break. I picked up the right players and I am glad about the result. We were slow in the first half but we hugely improved our passing game in the second.

Lamont Bryant

Patrick is the best player in the state. There are a lot of scorers in Illinois, but how many defend and rebound the way he does? What puts him at a level with other top players is he is very athletic and plays hard all the time. He gets at least 10 points a game playing aggressive defense.

Tim Bryant

Pascagoula came out and played inspired. They were aggressive and had a good game plan. Give them credit. We were tight, but I'm proud of them for taking care of business in the second half.

Raul Ibanez

Our offense has a nice pace, a nice feel right now. We're being aggressive when we have to, being patient when we have to. Good balance up and down the lineup, good approaches at the plate.

Peter Jones

Our office will conduct a vigorous investigation and an aggressive defense on behalf of Mr. Wesson.

Brian Hill

Steve has played under control and yet at the same time has been aggressive at driving the basketball and creating opportunities. He's really played well lately.

Tom Amstutz

Our program, and our conference because of its great reputation for developing players to their highest potential, attracts quality quarterbacks and receivers. These young guys are good and they're ready to step up.

Johnathan Frakes

Our strong teen-girl demographic attracts a lot of the boys as well, so I suspect that they'll let us continue to create the show with a style that has already gotten us into the third season anyway.

Jun Kitazawa

Japan's interest rates are still low. The rate- differential story still attracts Japanese investors to higher yielding assets.

Marshall Cohen

The 80s is about color, color, color. When business gets tough, retailers use color to entice the customer because that's the first thing that attracts the buyer.

Carol Hively

That's the kind of technology that attracts and keeps patients.

David Smith

I think a genuine race attracts involvement in a way that a foregone conclusion doesn't.

Stephen Perry

From a multibillion-dollar tourism perspective here in the city, this is one of the most powerful national signals that we can have, because it is the first major sporting commitment since Katrina. It is an event that attracts thousands of people, it has exposure all over the world, and it puts a highlight that weekend on New Orleans as a destination.

Jordan Rohan

It attracts a lot of eyeballs. Their distribution on UPN has made it an even more powerful platform. Its robustness is pleasantly surprising. If any company can make a football league work, they can.

Bob Dickinson

I think the future of cruising is outstanding. Today, cruising captures only 2% of the vacation market in this country. That's just 9.6 million people, while Las Vegas attracts over 37 million and Orlando is over 40 million. But cruising is capacity constrained. Our ships are full. If we wanted to be 6% of the market, we'd have to double the size of the fleet.

Linda Miller

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Gilbert Lopez

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

Rob Morris

Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.

Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

David Rudow

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

Mike Viracola

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Margo Timmins

Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Mike Barnett

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Toba Beta

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Peter Budaj

Starting with me and everybody else, I don't think we put out the effort that was good enough for a win.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Carl Jacobs

Our results have been worthy of an 'A,' but our effort has been on the 'C' level. We've jumped out to big leads, then other teams back in.

David Kirkland

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

Martin Winterkorn

Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

Tim Frank

Our policy . . . does not require a player to take a drug test at any point during a game, and we will ensure going forward that no testing is conducted during this time.

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Ramalinga Raju

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Rob Conway

Our goal is to ensure that in future, every notebook will be SIM ready.

Dayle Stewart

Our crews are ensuring that their trucks are stocked with all the equipment that they might need. We're going to ensure that all the trucks have been fueled and are ready to go at a moment's notice.

Bob Goodlatte

Our trading partners need to understand that we will do everything possible to ensure the competitive position of American farmers and ranchers,

Jon Postel

reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Glenn Tilton

reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built.

Hilary Clinton

Passing this legislation today is an important step in making sure that these families, who have been through so much, receive the financial relief that they need.

Sunil Reddy

Oracle is essentially trying to get rid of a competitor. This is more of a financial transaction than a technology transaction.

Thomas McInerney

Some of this may be because financial planning is confusing,

Doreen Toben

Our strategies are really starting to take hold, and you can see it in our financial and operational results this quarter.

Trevor Fetter

Our financial results for the quarter were severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Toni Simonetti

Our financial performance is unacceptable, we know that and we've been working hard to turn around North American operations to improve our financial performance,

Niall Ferguson

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Sergei Kiriyenko

I think there remain no organizational, technical or financial problems on the joint venture establishment.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390. This is an evolutionary trend.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390,

Jeff Raikes

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Knox Fuqua

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

Larry Ellison

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.

Steven Milunovich

Next year IBM is probably going to come in roaring back into the second half, but in between it's a mess,

Craig Bruce

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Larry Rice

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Brad Day

On a very low processor count, IBM now has performance benchmarks that are really going to put HP and Sun in a quandary, because they're going to have to match them.

Mickey Maurer

Our mission is to offer as little incentives as possible and still get the jobs. We're very pleased with it and they're pleased as well.

Scott Reamer

The question is, what incentives and what discounts have they needed to provide to get to that number and indeed just what is their operational efficiency?

Efraim Levy

There are not so many people that can actually qualify for zero-percent financing. But the incentives get them into the dealership, where they might get something else.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Robert Reich

Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.

Jennifer Granholm

We need incentives for reinvestment in the transmission grid,

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Andrew Lincoln

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

David Perkins

Parramatta are only looking at under-15s, unless there is someone exceptional,

Atul Lele

Patrick shares are going to be up near A$8 because that is what the market was looking for before it was blocked. When it got shot down by the regulator everyone was disappointed, but upwards of A$8 is what is needed.

Patti Lovemark

Part of the problem with that is if you're looking at very young students, you're not going to see that big gap.

Darin Erstad

Sure, we know we can get it done, but we feel that way anyway. We have to keep looking forward.

Jack Warner

Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

Robert Cox

Red-light violations in the first year are typically decreased by 50 percent. That is the primary reason for us looking into something like this.

David Bennett

I was just looking to see if they were going for two.

Roy Williams

I was just, ... looking into his eyes.

E. Hicks

I was just looking for a pitch to hit.

Rick Bowers

Overall it was good. We had some disappointments and some surprises; it's all part of the game.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Paul Nolte

Overall it doesn't look too bad. The prices paid is a concern. We'd like to see it come down a little. It's an inflationary key.

Keith Hembre

Overall there are not a lot of surprises here.

Paul Ballew

Overall share is going to be tough for us this year.

Cassie Desmone

Overall our season was fine, but not one of our better ones. We've got some work to do in the future.

Cristobal Huet

Overall I made a lot of progress this year. I worked on the little details, the small things that make you better.

Michael Woods

Overall for the first game, we played well,

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.

Michael Griffin

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

Eleanora Duse

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

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.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Owen Fitzpatrick

Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.