Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Ashe

We're extending our strategic alliance with IBM in order to drive innovation deeper into the marketplace. We think with this alliance our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their business-intelligence and performance-management initiatives.

Ed Stoppard

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Derek Leathers

Shippers that are not aligned with their carriers and carriers that aren't approaching their shippers in a collaborative way are really going to suffer. It's a difficult marketplace.

Rob Ashe

We're happy to extend our strategic alliance with IBM to drive innovation in the marketplace for our joint customers. Both companies share a vision for providing cost effective, integrated business solutions for enterprise companies. With this alliance, our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their BI and performance management initiatives.

Soledad O'Brien

CoverGirl's Girls CAN movement is perfectly aligned with my passion for helping young women overcome life's challenges, and my commitment to highlighting girls' successes. I am thrilled to partner with CoverGirl to embark on this exciting journey to improve the lives of girls and women in the world.

Gautam Adani

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

Anne Sweeney

I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

Bob Beauprez

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Richard Boucher

Much of the violence that we see now is being created by the gangs that were once aligned with the Aristide government. Without that factor, Haiti would be much closer to the rule of law and farther away from gang violence. So it's critical for the actors who supported these groups and who supported this violence to be part of ending it.

Dave Gorman

What this Australian guy meant when he said I was a Googlewhack,

Shane Oliver

U.S. interest rates are pretty close to the top. By year- end it is quite likely the Fed will be shifting toward easing monetary policy and investors will be starting to wonder about a renewed widening in the Australian and U.S. interest-rate gap.

Stephen Koukoulas

We're short-term fans of the Australian dollar. The global demand for commodities is incredibly strong because of the global economy, which is doing very well.

Richard Clarke

We're competing in an Australian league and we have to cross the Tasman every second game, it's as simple as that.

Richard Flanagan

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

Michael Leunig

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Tom Hopper

The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.

Tom Moody

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

Jane Goodall

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

David Miliband

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Kevin Barry

We want to take education and make it a cultural experience.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Tom Lake

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

Steve Biko

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

Mohsin Hamid

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Robbie Robertson

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

C. J. Cherryh

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Suresh Kalmadi

The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.

Patrick Arnold

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Gil Cates

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Dan Murphy

We're going to have to see what the financial position is once we get through this bidding phase and make adjustments to provide a full service, high quality high school for our students.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Dian Fossey

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

B. Carroll Reece

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Arturs Irbe

When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.

Meredith Patton

We're going to come out and surprise a lot of people. We're a young team, but we never give up.

Booker T. Washington

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Tom Slade

She may be a big surprise for a lot of people.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia. I just want to be like her. But if she loses, then I'm like, 'Oh, man, now I have to do it.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia,

John McEnroe

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

Ivan Lendl

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

John Newcombe

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

Steffi Graf

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Richard Krajicek

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest