Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Preston

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Gregory Asner

People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

Donald Selkin

Some of the blue chip tech stocks, especially the Internet stocks, as we all know, have really taken it on the chin this year. So if you want to play the technology sector, you should stay with the ones that did not make warnings going forward, as did the Amazon or Nokia, so stay with those.

Todd Chanko

Overall, it's important to stress on the revenue side that sales are up. It's not about Amazon not being able to increase its top line growth.

Paul Aiken

The Amazon programs are the way copyright is supposed to work.

Nigel Hamilton

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.

Joss Whedon

I was given license to purely make it my own and yet she is already an iconic Amazon princess,

Jon Burnham

I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,

Sophie Winkleman

I'm playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called 'Elvenquest,' and I'm playing a Russian genius in the comeback of 'Red Dwarf.'

Richard Hastings

Our recent visits to some stores indicate better controls over displays, clutter, and shelf appearance, necessary steps to stabilize store aesthetics in support of their apparel initiatives.

David Spooner

Our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade. But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

Paul Charron

Our 1998 performance is particularly rewarding given the highly competitive retail environment and the incremental costs associated with our transformation initiatives, ... These initiatives strengthen Liz Claiborne's leadership position in the apparel industry and position us for continued growth into the millennium.

Scott Krugman

It is an easier last-minute gift. For people that are trying to avoid the long lines or as the apparel selection starts to thin out, I think you will see more people turning to gift cards today.

George Crane

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Eric Gordon

The apparel industry has for years failed in its old role as a fashion leader, so they've run up the white flag. They're saying, 'Well, at least we're the leader of the old stuff. Won't you come back and see us again?

Renaldo Nehemiah

The athletes coming out today are marking $350,000 to $650,000 plus a year, just from their apparel deals.

Fazlul Haque

I will urge India if our apparel quota could be increased. I will also seek Indian investment in our local textile, clothing and knit sectors.

Dwyane Wade

I am excited to extend my partnership with one of the premier shoe and apparel companies in the world. Converse represents tradition, a passion for sports and has a vision to revolutionize the industry.

Steven Kernkraut

If we all have to buy a new device for the home that's a combination of a TV and PC, Sears is the largest seller of home appliances today in America. Whatever that appliance is, it's going to require installation, which would leverage their home services business.

Wang Jianlin

Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

David Steiner

Maytag is honored by our partnership with ENERGY STAR. We know that through the use of ENERGY STAR appliances consumers can save money and contribute to a healthy environment. We are proud to help raise awareness about energy efficiency through our efforts.

Rich McVeigh

Neither one of us had swept a chimney, but we became August West Registered Certified Chimney Sweeps. With the demand for wood appliances going through the roof, we maximize the performance of the system. Now we wish we could keep up with the demand. We're now scheduling out three weeks.

Mike Seamons

When you come in the door you're actually entering into the first of 11 environments within the home. In the dining room, for example, visitors will witness the wonders of digital artwork and music, while in the kitchen they'll learn how connected appliances simplify daily tasks and entertainment, lighting and climate can all be controlled with the touch of a button.

George Higgins

She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and in her ears she wore two feathered appliances resembling surfcasting jigs especially appetizing to striped bass.

Britt Beemer

Sears gets five times more demand for its home appliances than Lowe's and Home Depot,

Bill Bass

Sears.com will be easier and faster to navigate and will have five times as much information about the home appliances products,

E. Hicks

So making sure your handling how payments are going to be handled, how disputes are going to be handled, how changes, and even itemizing, for example if you are doing a kitchen or something, itemizing exactly what kind of appliances and even make and model that are going to be put in.

Paul Donovan

Rear-projection technologies will undoubtedly dominate from 50 in. onward. The incremental cost of making them bigger is much less and profit margins remain higher.

Shannon Burns

Our position is that as they grow bigger and bigger, and their tourism destinations get closer and closer, you have to question how much of a draw they will have.

Ginger Reeder

Our regular items draw bigger business for us. This year we think brooches will sell well.

Dennis Perry

Patience is the name of the game, ... I seem to do better in the bigger tournaments because I don't take as many chances.

Alan Heap

Past cycles of investor buying have proved short-lived. It's a bubble and it may get bigger before it bursts.

Jeff Simpson

partnered with these guys as opposed to bigger operators like Boyd or Harrah's.

Chris Bosh

Part of me wants to get out there, but the bigger part of me wants to see the other guys do well. If we're winning, that's all I care about.

Mike Hughes

Our little service has gotten bigger and bigger, and now they want to knock the legs out from under us.

Kelly Burke

Our only hope is that someone knows something and will make the call. The bigger the reward, the more enticing, I suppose.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Libby Lenton

Our training for Melbourne depends so much on the documents and the training log books, so please return it.

Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

Ron Gardenhire

Just another one for the books. Ohhhh God.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Nicolas Cage

I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.

Paul Gray

It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

Paul Saito

People like the serenity of walking through the gardens even when it's hot, even in the summer time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

B. B. King

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

Bill Shankly

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

Cecelia Ahern

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

Bertrand Russell

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Diane Setterfield

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

Thomas Hood

I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back.

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.