Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Trill

Last year there was somewhat of an absence of the PC from the boom; it was very much consumer electronics centric. This year, I think it will be more evenly balanced where we will see the effects of the consumer cycle include more computing products.

Pichai Lertsupongkit

Many local investors are switching to small-cap stocks on lack of clear direction in blue chips, absence of fresh corporate news and political uncertainty.

Mohammed Nazzal

Sharon's absence removes from the political scene a professional killer who mastered the murder of Palestinians and addressed the most violent, brutal and bloody strikes in the history of the Arab-Israeli struggle. The Palestinian people can only hope that what is coming is better, not worse.

Mark Volpe

Mr. Levine is extremely disappointed about his continuing absence from the BSO podium, and sincerely hopes to return as soon as possible.

Marcos Basaglia

No one really expected a lower rate. It's just that, in the absence of good news, a flat rate added to the profit taking.

Chris Kaman

No offense to Kenyon, but I think (his absence) helps them. Look at their record without him.

Jim Calhoun

Obviously, we are disappointed that Jeff will miss the game at Providence, but the rule as stated in the rule book is very clear. Other players will have to step up and make up for his absence and I have complete confidence that will happen.

Charles Bullock

Obviously, it's a great opportunity for somebody else to build a brand in their absence.

Marc Kennis

Given the current operational performance, the potential to free up large sums of cash and the absence of larger acquisition opportunities, I expect Philips may engage in further share buybacks or pay out higher dividends in 2006.

Phil Leigh

One reason Yahoo came at this price was they wanted to make it difficult for Amazon and MTV and people like that, that have waited so long to get into the business. I think it's going to be really quite interesting to see what Amazon offers, in terms of pricing.

Maria Semple

On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

Ken Cassar

My guess is that Amazon has seen the writing on the wall, ... They think they'll get slammed next week when they release their quarterly report and they're trying to cut their losses by telling the Street they're taking measures to control costs.

John Grisham

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

Candice Millard

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Safa Rashtchy

If Amazon produces the numbers, nobody will care. If the growth isn't there, then I think it will become more of an issue. Why isn't there the disclosure level that we would expect?

Gene Munster

If Amazon can get to that fast track, it would eliminate the need for people to go out to rent or buy movies. If it doesn't, this service could be dead on arrival.

Scott Turow

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.

Don Mitchell

Last year we focused on placing one or more of our flagship products at the top semiconductor manufacturers in the world as ranked by spending. Capacity expansion plans announced by several of these customers are contributing to our more optimistic outlook, and we are also experiencing increasing demand for our legacy products.

Ramon Llamas

Last year, quarterly mobile phone shipments didn't reach 200 million units until the end of the fourth quarter when vendors were keeping the channels' shelves stocked for the holiday rush. As vendors announced new products earlier this year and accelerated their time to market, we've already reached this milestone.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Many companies have announced their plans to increase investments.

James Gray

Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

William Rehnquist

Miranda announced a constitutional rule that Congress may not supersede legislatively.

Geno Auriemma

My initial reaction right now is I saw where it's going to be announced during the Final Four. So if I'm sitting here in Connecticut and there's four teams playing in Boston at the Final Four and I get a phone call, my first reaction is I'm going to be (mad) that I'm not at the Final Four. I can tell you that much. So if I happen to be in Boston with my team and I get that phone call, it'll be kind of a special weekend.

Laurence Olivier

My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had announced that he'd gone 3 days without sleep in order to 'become' his character

Jimmy Carter

Obviously, I'm very grateful to the Nobel committee for choosing me. I think they've announced very clearly that the work of the Carter Center has been a wonderful contribution to the world for the last 20 years.

Patty Krueger

We had bought a house in The Villages, and planned to rent it out for a while. However, we had a day that was 40 below. My husband came home and announced that we were moving to Florida right away.

Bill Bradley

Let me assure you, you are going to be all right.

Pervez Musharraf

Let me assure you that President Bush never talks about when are you taking your uniform off,

Drew Rosenhaus

Let me assure you, he will be playing in the future. He will be dominant. There are a lot of people in the NFL who respect him. He wants to be an Eagle. But do not write him off.

Ben Crenshaw

Length is always going to get its due. Playing shorter clubs into these greens makes a huge difference, I can assure you. But, really, no matter how long or short the course plays, you have to deal with these greens. They have been the main defense of this course, and always will be. I hope they never change, because they are fascinatingly complex.

Billy Donovan

Lee is one of those guys who understands scouting reports, schemes and how we are guarding. You can be rest assured that he is going to follow everything to the minute detail of what he has to do. So, forget about the shooting part of it, we have just lost maybe our best overall defender.

Doug Anderson

Many of the smaller nonprofits in town have incurred significant out-of-pocket expenses. My concern is that the money collected by the United Way for the express purpose of reimbursement to nonprofits be disbursed in a timely and efficient manner as Mrs. Wormington has assured me that it will be,

Charles Gittins

No other document was provided to Scott and we have been assured that Adm. Fargo will meet with Scott with an open mind,

Robert Pinsky

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

Joe Wright

We met with some of our key Hispanic employees last week and were assured they understood how important it was to milk the cows.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

Kurt Andersen

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Gary Griffin

We're not being as effective as she wants us to be, ... Why would I continue to dedicate my resources to something she wants the sheriff to do?

Bill Cowher

Like anything else, it will grow with time and as we continue to go through ups and downs. I'm always there for him, and he'll always know how I feel. We have a very trusting relationship.

Austin Brooks

Like I said from day one, I'm just going to stay humble. I know that hard work pays off. It's just one of those things where I feel like hard work did pay off, but I'm still going to continue to work hard. I'm just going to continue to do the things I do, on the court and off the court.

Rosevelt Colvin

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

Angela Clark

Mac's Place was packed after the concert. That was awesome. People just wanted to continue to listen to great music.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Scott Simons

make it easy for customers to make healthy choices.

John Phillips

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

Jim Murphy

Mac support for Lotus is a check-box item. We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company's research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.

Robert Tillman

Lowe's today is in a better position to weather interest rate increases because we've shifted our customer focus,

Anne Murray

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Mohamed Ghuloom

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Howard Davidowitz

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

Peter Kelly

Many of the enterprise customers we talk with wouldn't want major updates more frequently than a two- to three-year cycle, even if Microsoft could deliver updates on a faster cycle.

Don Harrison

Seventy percent of our customers are weekend warriors who do their own work. The other 30 percent are contractors.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Tina Shipp

So many left when Dennis came, and then not much happened, so a lot of people decided to stay this time.

Jim Haslett

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Edwina Ashe

My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.

Michael Johnston

Shareholders are pressuring everyone to disclose what they are doing in the environmental arena.

Oliver Drewes

Only after that I can disclose any facts and details.

Shivraj Patil

We have lots of information but it is not proper to disclose it yet, ... The investigation is going well.

Bradley A. Smith

By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Lysander Spooner

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

Bob Woodward

Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?

Bill Cowher

There are no prerequisites in this forum. All the votes are tabulated and shredded, and I disclose the results. This is not a democracy.

Ari Fleischer

He had an obligation to disclose it himself, and he should have done so Saturday night or Sunday morning.

Steven Cron

It is because of this outpouring that she felt an obligation to disclose publicly these intensely private matters.

David Stern

Send him to jail and he'll be forgotten. Kill him and you guarantee him immortality.

Dave Muldawer

One of our strengths is having people lower down. For our own sake, we have to win in doubles. We are a true team. I guarantee we work harder than any other D-III team in the nation. The other teams have more talent, so we have to work harder, and win in doubles.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Kate Winslet

My god, I'm not really doing it for that. I don't think we really need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It's like, how many have there been? We get it! It was grim! Move on! No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust? Guaranteed Oscar. I've been nominated for four. Never won!

Brian Roberts

I can't guarantee aren't going to see some lawsuits because you probably are. Why not do it in a licensed model? If usage happens, value follows.

Larry Bird

I can't guarantee all our guys are going to be here, but the way we've been talking it seems like it will be a one-player-for-one or one-for-two trade. We'd like to keep all of our players.

Joe Marshall

For students who sign up for the program, we guarantee transfer with a scholarship.

Eric Belsky

Full-time work does in no way guarantee the housing you're in.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

Major Owens

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Jim Turner

share that information with their constituencies using public-information channels.

Edward Tufte

Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.

Janis Karpinski

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

Peter Parr

My information is that he should be right for week one.

John Whitaker

Obviously, we want to get more information to verify these things.

Ted Morgan

More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.

Jim Bishop

Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

James Green

Next to his own writings, this is the most important source of information about him. There are discoveries to be made here.

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Doug Ferrari

I did not have a sober, straight, legal day from 1974 to 1994. Not one.

David Crane

From a legal perspective, it is going fine.

Alberto Fujimori

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, ... I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Linda Powell

If I'm going to do it, I want to make it legal.

Don Waddell

Some of his patterns come in legal and some come in illegal.

Archibald Hill

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

Craig Ray

Maybe the number of travelers aren't as high, but the money spent is way up. The travelers are staying longer and spending more money. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say it's very positive.

Jake Bugg

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Clay Richards

There are people who no longer feel he'd be different.

David Givens

I was surprised to win, I thought for sure someone else would have a longer commute.

Michael Vick

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

Seth Harp

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Henry Rollins

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Bill Rodgers

So, I would recommend one longer run daily, with your longest run when you can get the time.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Jim Haslett

Obviously, that means a lot to me -- that's what friends are for.

Orel Hershiser

obviously keenly understands what it means to be a Dodger.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Bob Hunter

I can tell you this thing is by no means is it going to throw up a lot of cash.

Eduardo Saverin

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Dirk Bogarde

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

bell hooks

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Dana Milbank

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Marc Cherry

Let's just say she has a very interesting relationship with her son.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Elbert Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Bill Clinton

I did not have sexual relationship with that woman!

Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

Deepak Chopra

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Jim Anderson

There's really not much that's technical to it,

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Nick Knight

That may well be a technical thing - it's something I will look at during the winter,

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Lenny Clark

We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

Kevin O'Leary

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.