Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn McLaughlin

We want to take these meetings across the city to get as many people involved as possible. We are trying to build a coalition behind this.

Robert Kirby

We want to stimulate demand for physics and encourage young people across the UK to study it whatever their financial or social background.

Luke Bracey

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Louis Stokes

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Michael Specter

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

David Heim

The performance ranged from excellent or nearly so to very good. There was a very high level of performance across the board.

Jackie Vaughn

The percentage is reduced each year, until after five years the fire department is able to continue on with paid staffing with it's own funding. At a time when volunteer fire departments across the nation are struggling to obtain new volunteers, this cut really hurts. It means fire departments will have to look to the public for even more support.

Tim Ruskell

The people who step across the line and get the job done deserve the credit. They enjoy playing with each other, they have each other's back, and they've really bought into the team concept. You drive down a road and see a road crew, two of them are working and the rest are leaning on their shovels? I lean on a shovel.

Joe Horn

We appreciate it. We welcome it. We love the people across the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We love you with all of our hearts and we're going to do what we have to do to win football games. We love everybody in the world who has supported this effort and those who sat and watched TV and wanted to support us financially but couldn't.

Robert Bohn

We want to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

Lawrence Summers

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

Marv Levy

We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in what lies ahead in his career.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to what we saw in 2002, the counts of cases that we're having now are ahead of what we had in 2002, least in the city.

Zina Garrison

We are pretty much considered the underdogs here but I have a lot of confidence in the young women that are here and we are really looking ahead to a good match.

John McDonnell

We are ahead of where I thought we would be by two points. Florida State has a lot of great bullets and Texas and LSU, but we are on line to do what we are capable of doing.

John Sheehan

We are ahead of the curve on this.

Brian Halla

We are ahead of schedule on the return to profits plan we announced on May 5.

Robin Clifford

We are ahead of schedule for Sunday's deadline, and by midnight Sunday, (all) Yugoslav forces will be gone,

Justin Higgins

We want to try to be as balanced as we can offensively, run and pass. We don't have the one guy that a lot of schools might have. We'll do it as a team, do it by committee. A lot of guys will get to carry and catch the ball.

Preston Early

The position that she plays, I feel, is about relationships. Relationships with your coach and with your teammates and I think she's worked extremely hard in both of those areas. There is a lot of trust between us and with her and her teammates. And if everybody's playing well and we're as balanced as we are (offensively), that shows we have a good point guard.

Ralph Lauren

We are pleased with our performance in the quarter, given the challenging economic environment, ... We continue to strive to be an innovator in the industry by constantly updating our products and merchandise as we seek new customers, while remaining faithful to the traditional Polo customer. This strategy, balanced with sound business practices in a competitive marketplace, is what built Polo Ralph Lauren and made it a leader for three decades, and this strategy will take us into the next decade.

Tom McClintock

We are going to spend about $6 billion more this year than we take in, ... The only reason they can even call that a balanced budget with a straight face is, they're taking borrowed money from last year and spilling it over into this year." ()

Howard Suda

We are a very balanced team. We get points from everyone.

Lelani Gordon

We are a very balanced team. We don't have that player that will score 30 or 40 in a game, but we have three to four players that usually score in double figures.

Yoshinori Katori

We want to realize from the Japanese point of view a more equitable and balanced way of burden-sharing. This question we will pursue irrespective of the discussion of permanent seat of the Security Council.

Brian Barnhart

We have seen an incredibly balanced level of racing the past few years in the IndyCar Series and look forward to even more of that in 2006. Extending our current chassis program with Dallara and Panoz provides our teams maximum value for their investment.

Heath Neiderer

We have a standard camera shot for all guests. We also try to be as balanced as possible in terms of giving representatives on all sides of an issue the chance to be heard.

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Mike Strecker

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

Sung Sohn

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Ron Meyer

Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself.

Mark Reed

We're doing it at night because there are a lot of businesses on that road, and there are a lot of people who live on that road. We're going to try to be as courteous as we can be.

Jeff Jaffe

With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell.

Michael Nathanson

We want to see real earnings and cash flow.

David Tang

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Spike Lee

We have a sort of understanding that works on the set. When you're shooting, the cash register is ringing . Denzel and I know where we're going before shooting starts. Then, it's a matter of doing it.

Charlie Munger

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

Tyson Slocum

What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.

James Chessen

What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.

David Briggs

What we're hearing is that today was predominantly short covering, ... I know that there's people that have cash and are stepping in when the market's down.

Tracey Mills

What they're doing now is more targeted marketing. One is cash incentives - some say it's the next wave after free checking - and the targeted marketing is a trend we've noticed for several years now.

Terry Bivens

What they need to do is deploy the cash in a way that drives some growth. Sara Lee, rightly or wrongly, is not viewed as a growth company.

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Rich DiPentima

The point of this whole thing is to look at your continuing operations within your infrastructure.

Monte Shaw

We are proud to welcome Corn, LP as the 21st ethanol plant in Iowa. This plant is a showcase of the continuing innovation and improvement in the ethanol industry.

Giles Morgan

We're in continuing dialogue and we're hoping it'll be resolved as soon as possible.

Ted Saskin

We spent the last four days in small group meetings continuing to review and negotiate various systemic and economic issues. The two sides will resume small group discussions on Monday in Toronto.

Diane Forden

Where is our National Guard when we need them? Theyre over in Iraq, ... Why is our government continuing to pursue the wrong priorities?

Bob Graham

We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.

Charlie Munger

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

Jim McCafferty

This theme is continuing and not just in the mining stocks, but in any related sectors. This is a macroeconomic trend.

Dominique Moisi

The one who has perhaps gained the most is the prime minister, who stood for the state and managed to deliver a message of firmness together with a message of openness to society.

Garth Tuck

The power is there. It's more than just a fad. It's a new medium to deliver content.

Paul House

We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.

Kip Petersen

We spent millions installing a modern water delivery system, sewage treatment facility and paved roads.

Mike Reed

We approached this as a must-win game because it solidifies our fifth seed in districts, and kept us in the second-half race if somehow God delivered some miracle and Halifax lost.

Jacques Rogge

We have no doubt that BOCOG will deliver in a splendid way.

Stephen Jones

Was the person you delivered (food) to Mr. McVeigh?,

Jeffrey Immelt

We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Brandy Corbett

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Dickens

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

Charles Spurgeon

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Alan Watts

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Charles Lee

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Eden Sher

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Cedric Benson

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

Rob Jordan

We're starting to get a little more notice.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.