Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Karsten Keunecke

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

Nancy Alderman

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.

Allen Bailey

We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.

Abheek Barua

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

Tyson Slocum

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

Ed Jensen

... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.

Steve Levy

The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent

Frank Middleton

She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue,

Jesse Smith

Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.

E. B. White

She is a warm and considerate woman. We knew she would nurture our children. I'm unable to understand why a competent teacher was removed at this critical time.

Cass Sunstein

She is unquestionably an intelligent person and a competent lawyer. But she's had very little experience in constitutional law.

Ulla Bock

She made it to the top, also because there was a vacuum of power and she was her party's only hope. But she is nevertheless highly competent and fit for the office.

Dick Durbin

may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?

E. P. Thompson

Now that John Thompson is successful, ... I find it very difficult to fire him because the pigmentation in his skin is white. Besides, he's competent and he's my friend.

Albert Murray

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

Elliott Abrams

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

Jesse Helms

In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Karen Roberts

We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic party in Precinct 4.

Robert Shaw

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Lee Miringoff

She remains a controversial figure when she moves out from the Democratic primary sweepstakes.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Ian Martin

The people of East Timor, whatever side of the issue they are on, are determined to have their say in this ballot.

Suzy Menkes

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

Jack Barnes

The process will determine that (a replacement), ... It might not happen. Senator Eaton might be able to rally the troops.

Temple Grandin

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Richard Powers

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Norman Williams

We are going to look into these allegations and determine whether or not these people whose policies were canceled were (treated) in a fair and appropriate manner.

Paul Hawkins

This will only make us more determined to live in peace and respect each other and we can all play our part in that,

Harry S Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Adrian Smith

When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.

Harrison Wadsworth

The Perkins program is one of the most efficient ways to use federal resources -- schools partly match federal capital, and all the money is recycled into loans for future generations. Students need Perkins more than ever.

Kathy Shepard

We are proud of our team members who, in a prompt and efficient manner, extinguished the smoke.

Luis von Ahn

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Ryan Duft

We're starting to take some of that pressure off Shawn a little bit. That's made us a more efficient team offensively.

Mac Thornberry

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

Jim Bolla

When we get the ball, we're not as efficient because we're tired and often take the first shot. We're playing into our opponents' hands.

Gail Goestenkors

She was very efficient with her minutes. She played 19 minutes and had 20 points. Part of it, I think, is that she is able to stay fresh.

Jeff Lungren

We have safeguards to ensure people aren't deported who shouldn't be.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Fidel Castro

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Edward Johnson, III

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Lawrence Summers

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Mike Lee

We are here to ensure we help the local nationals live and experience the same liberties we have in the United States without being oppressed by terrorists. These Soldiers took an oath to do this duty.

Bob Collins

We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

James Nicholson

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call,

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

Gerard Warren

He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him.

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

Anna Netrebko

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Carole Bouquet

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

Carlos Boozer

Too strong for that Bron Bron.

Carlos Castaneda

Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Agnes Smedley

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

Agnes Varda

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.