Famous Quotes & Sayings

Becky Skillman

We know we're always in a competitive situation when we seek to attract production facilities to Indiana, so this was a huge win for our state.

Bill Bryan

Ultimately, retaining and attracting businesses means saving and creating jobs. That's good for our customers and the Southern California economy.

David Milne

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Michael Specter

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

Dan Garrett

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

Felix Lanters

The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.

Fran Fraschilla

The perception that Kentucky is down, therefore the league is down, is very true because they are the flagship program in the SEC. It's a combination of (UK) and the fact that (success) in power conferences is cyclical. Often a league that can attract top-caliber recruits is more easily susceptible to losing great players to the NBA. How much better would some of these teams be if they had those players now?

Eric Sorensen

We are seeing a lot of success in the ski/wakeboard segment in attracting new boaters, while pontoons have declined substantially in this area.

Chris Colfer

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

Wes Newton

We knew they were coming, and we wanted to come because they are going to be our competition in the state finals.

Dusty Baker

Walker is probably the front-runner for that position. But he knows he has some competition for that job.

Jim McNerney

Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness,

Don Cooper

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

David Korten

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Michel Patini

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.

Kevin Roe

There are concerns about rising competition and there is still more to come.

Greg Haga

We?re in it to win it, but we?d be out there fighting the same way if we had never won anything. We don?t see it as pressure. We see it as competition, and competition is fun.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Mark Stewart

We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Stuart Fraser

There are some encouraging signs. They're going in the right direction. Still, they've got quite a job in front of them.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Tim Hibbitts

We have a state where a growing number of voters are displeased with the direction of the state. If that's not a good set-up for a third-party candidate, I don't know what is.

Tim Clark

We've been able to point people in the right direction and get them hooked up with locations, crews, whatever they need.

Kelly Brown

We're just waiting for direction from the federal level.

Matt Haryasz

We're moving in the right direction. We're starting to get a lot of momentum.

Bruno Bauer

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

John Ridley

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

Donna Shalala

She has the right stuff, ... And having the right stuff is not something that is exclusive to one chromosome or another.

Keith Henson

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.

Michael Dell

Sure. We do not have an exclusive relationship with Intel.

William James

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.

Deepak Chopra

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Thalia

Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Jim Sullivan

People have seen weakening in goods prices and have been pointing to deflation. This tells us we're not going there.

Loretta Young

I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood.

Jim Amoss

His view prevailed. The goods went back to the shelves and on they drove, empty-handed.

Igor Ivanov

on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Sachar

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Jeff Justice

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

Stephen Graham Jones

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

Matt Rosoff

What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Sathya Baba

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Pete Smith

The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Susan Collins

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Sam Yagan

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Edward Everett Hale

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

Keith Lichtman

The pricing was unbelievable, just when you think there is no such thing as a steal in New York.

David Larcher

The pricing that we got . . . was just so irrational.

Paul Ballew

When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs.

James Murdoch

We don't rule out any pricing or promotional initiatives.

David Robertson

The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be.

Stephany Sofos

It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world.

David Kerr

A lot of sellers are still pricing to the higher-end and their properties are still sitting there, and they're not considering realistic offers.

Ray Waddell

Promoters are providing more value. Rather than discounting, they're trying to get the pricing right.

David Cole

In a small vehicle, pricing is a pretty dicey type of thing.

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Al Yankovic

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Charles Simonyi

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Charles Spurgeon

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Akon

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Chogyam Trungpa

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Dave Gahan

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Dave Franco

There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process is different because there's more time. On movies there's just so much freedom and space to explore in front of the camera.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

J. Hoover

It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there.

Chrisette Michele

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.