Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Dailey

We utilized his leg strength to kick it over the net because he had that ability, and that assured our defense would be in a situation where the offense would have to go 45 yards to score. Clay is more than capable of backing off a little and putting it into the net. We are working with him now on some things on where we want him to kick it. They want returns as part of the game for the excitement.

Irwin Jacobs

We believe that the current reduction, combined with other cost-cutting measures, is necessary to assure our competitive position in the rapidly growing wireless communications market.

Bruce Bailey

There are some European manufacturers who would love to build plants in the United States if they could only be assured there would be a market five years from now.

Ken Hitchcock

Whenever there's something in the stomach, you get nervous but I've been assured it's nothing. I'm still going to be nervous until Peter is back on the ice playing pain-free.

Jack Finn

We were assured that this is the beginning of a long, slow, thorough process.

Chris Bertelli

We were assured that that information would go to the mayor.

Jerry Carroll

We were trying every way we could because we're so assured of our market here.

Robert Hathaway

We've assured the King family we will give it our best efforts to review the case and resolve it for their family.

Sue Hofer

We would rather assure them than not hear from them and have to help them recoup losses later.

Jack Scoville

Very few producers can make money at 50 cents a pound. Brazil needs 65 cents and that's still cheap. For most, breakeven is around $1.

Mo McHone

We extended a lot of energy yesterday, a lot of emotion in the Brazil game and so to come out flat and play the way we did is not surprising.

Kristin Kreuk

Someday I'd like to do some real traveling. I'm obsessed with Brazil and I've always had this dream of backpacking through South America.

Neymar

It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.

Ethan Zuckerman

Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.

Vik Muniz

Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

Vik Muniz

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

Marta

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

Marta

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Jamal Qureshi

We're in a world that faces serious problems with political stability in several key regions. People want to hold more supplies closer to home, and that's going to keep demand high for purchasing imported barrels.

Lorenzo Jones

We started out good, but we had a lapse in the second half. I was able to play everybody and it would have been closer if my big girl had not fouled out.

Jack Sturgeon

We stabilized there and showed some life. We didn't fold the tents. Offensively and defensively, we got our heads back into the game. It wasn't an 11-3 game. We're closer to them than 11-3, but there are some things we have to work on.

Dan Webster

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

Susan White

When you think about it, it makes sense, ... People are living closer together in the dorms.

Rob Portman

We always come closer every time we talk.

Kevin Keating

We want to provoke heat and debate and a closer look at the man and leader in full, not just the leader who has been raised to secular sainthood.

Michael Shannon

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Susan Clark

The point is professional enrichment, education, professional development. We are constantly learning.

Joey Santiago

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Lexi Thompson

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

Mark Kennedy

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

M.I.A.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

David Blair

Whether my house was open or not, the noise was just as bad. ... It was like someone constantly pounding on the house.

Reid Scott

Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Dick Marty

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Alan Arkin

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Alan Alda

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Al Seckel

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Al Hirschfeld

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Akio Morita

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Akio Morita

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

Akio Morita

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

Chogyam Trungpa

People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Mary Quant

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.

Natalie Zea

I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

Warren Littlefield

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Dana Brunetti

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.

David Perry

Unlike most viruses, which have some financial objective, such as stealing Internet-banking passwords or using the victim's PC to send spam, this worm is purely malicious. It is as if its creators just want people to sit up and take notice of them.

Peter Roskam

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

Steve Niles

That says a lot about Sam Raimi. He's kept me in the loop the entire time. Especially doing 'Spider-Man,' he realized the importance of working with the creators and the fans.

John Kline

The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Jay Pultz

There are some economies of scale that can be eked out primarily in people costs. But the real payoff is too far into the future.

Kenneth Fisher

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

Kenneth Fisher

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.

Thomas Shannon

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

Helen Lau

I am upbeat about the Yuanmeng series, because it helps Lenovo gain more market share and hence lets Lenovo enjoy economies of scale.

Charles Hill

I don't think we're really seeing the impact yet of what's happening in the economies over there.

Gwyn Hacche

Growth in euro-land economies is starting to come through, particularly in the industrial sector. It looks to us as if there will be strong growth in the third and fourth quarter of around 1 percent.

Hank Fishkind

I think the implications are positive. Worldwide, what you see is, when you have more participation by minorities in commerce, the more vibrant their economies are.

Chuck D.

Up there, we were able to show a very significant impact because the economies are more compressed around the beach, ... The local (Manatee-Sarasota) economy is not as diverse.

Henry Samueli

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Bill Rocco

Most people don't need an emerging market fund, I don't think. That doesn't mean many don't.

Richard Robinson

Mobile are a key revenue-generating service emerging in China.

Larry Page

Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

Paul Pearl

We?re kind of an emerging program. To be here on a national scene with three other great teams was fantastic for our program.

Gautam Adani

Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.

Woody Norris

I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

Ian McCafferty

There are emerging signs that the hard-pressed manufacturing sector is improving.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Monitoring our children's use of emerging technologies is a huge task and the Internet remains the focus of many parent's concerns.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Carlos Castaneda

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Todd Simmons

Through open source software, you can dramatically speed up the level of innovation.

Todd Park

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

Ludwig von Mises

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

Henry McKinnell

This is an important victory not only for Pfizer but for all innovators pursuing high-risk medical discoveries.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Edward Kennedy

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

Charles M. Schwab

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

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

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,

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Abdul Kalam

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Adolf Hitler

Politics is history in the making.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Bobby Hull

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be...

Kevin Krewell

If you absolutely, positively need a dual-core Xeon today, they'll sell it to you. But it won't be cheap.

Martin King

To be silent is to acknowledge, to positively reinforce.

Bob Burke

They're not speculating one way or the other. Until they are absolutely, positively sure, they will not hint one way or the other.

Abraham Polonsky

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

Tom Hansen

It's about time the Pac-10 was impacted positively by a hurricane,

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Betty Wright

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

Asha Bhosle

Earlier, I know of instances where singers like Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar even stopped recording till they got their preparation right

Stephen Jones

You OK? You OK? A recording is made of a frightening telephone call.

Linda Ronstadt

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

Al Yankovic

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

Herbie Hancock

I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just out but too expensive.

J. J. Abrams

I love recording music.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Fred Brooks

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Mo Johnston

He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

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.

David Walliams

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

Benjamin Franklin

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

Abdul Kalam

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Blake Shelton

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

Brian Urlacher

We didn't have any three-and-outs, a lot of takeaways, a lot of sacks. That's what we thrive on.

Patrick Beilein

We thrive on those situations. We like to be the underdog and like to go under the radar.

Issa Rae

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.

Michael Barrett

We need them to produce. We don't need them to just survive, we need them to thrive to win.

Og Mandino

Always let your reach exceed your grasp.