Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Jeff Kinney

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Sy Montgomery

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Sheikh Ahmad

OPEC today produces 30.4 million bpd and there is a surplus in the market estimated at over two million barrels,

Jack Gerard

Our reserves are the world's largest, giving us, conservatively, an estimated 250-year supply.

Tom Stehn

It is estimated that between 10 and 19 whooping cranes have started the migration.

Daniel Loeb

our worst-case estimated value of $14 per share.

Sandra Wilson

We estimated about 9,000 people attended. It was an enthusiastic crowd.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Suze Orman

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Ron Wilson

I thought he could score 40 this year, and now he's there. He's exceeding all my expectations as far as I'm concerned.

Greg Yurek

We're exceeding some of the models from which we worked.

Howard Staunton

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.

Alan Shepherd

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

Mark E. Smith

The players are exceeding our expectations. The kids are hustling and not getting down if they make a mistake.

Nigel Wright

We are very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start at Spirit. They are meeting or exceeding our expectations on every metric that we had set out.

Timothy Evans

As with most storms, we think the fear factor is exceeding the likely impact on production here.

Don Hamson

The thing is, the market keeps expecting it to set new highs. We have had two or three years of exceeding expectations, so you have to keep exceeding it more each year.

James Thurber

seems to be exceeding the quota one or two.

Don Bluth

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Joe Brand

We've also been looking into some new, innovative financing tools. We realize since there is no funding today that it will be some time before a freeway is built. There will have to be some interim improvements.

Doug Anderson

We guarantee we can find financing for everyone. If we are unable to find someone financing for any reason then we will pay them $100 for their time.

George Hood

We have a plan and financing to make this project a reality while providing wide public benefits.

Greg Brenneman

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.

Luis Carriles

Listen well to that, ... I didn't say they were financing me. I said they were financing those operations, that's it.

Joel Kinnaman

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

George Pipas

I think that impact of that program is not as strong as when it was first announced, ... Zero percent financing was like a tidal wave and you had to get on the wave or you'd be swept under. But I think the program is still perceived as having a lot of value.

H. Hunt

If we're financing our program ourselves, then we know our money's going to our program.

Charles Stross

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing ...

Ernie Sims

We knew they weren't going to line it up and try to run it down our throats. They did a lot of misdirection and kept us guessing. We need to go back on work on fundamentals like tackling, getting into your gap and doing your job.

David Trimble

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.

Li Shufu

No matter how hard we work, there is always a gap with Western brands.

Samantha Harvey

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

James Steel

We feel that we can do a lot better. There is a huge gap between India and Australia, but at least we got the job done today.

Linda Kalafatis

We're not a home run-hitting team. We'll pop some out and that's fun, but we're a gap team. We're a singles team. We're a quick team. All of our runs and all of our hits were in the house.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

Eugene White

Many people think there is a big gap ... We need to review the strengths he had.

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall it was one of Kirk's better games.

Tommy Hickox

Overall we've been playing a lot better, especially over the spring break. I really think we're starting to play well.

Tim Moe

Overall we really took it to them and the only time they could get it out of their end was when we were on the penalty kill.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.