Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kent Perkins

Our focus has never been on fast runners. That's why there's no prize money. . . . In terms of attracting big names, our philosophy is we want to provide this quality of service to our runners.

Bob Colarossi

The Amgen Tour of California is attracting a caliber of riders in its first year that is evidence of the high esteem the race is being given by the international cycling community. This field is unprecedented in the history of modern American cycling and we're excited to host such an accomplished group of cyclists. It's our goal to give them a first-class experience in California.

Christina Gilgor

It has an overarching impact on the state in terms of attracting tourism, attracting conventions and attracting businesses that want to make their home here. It is very unfortunate that the governor has chosen to scapegoat a minority group in this way.

Scott Thompson

I can tell you, in the past five years, we've seen a continued and remarkable decrease in risk management issues, hazing issues and all that stuff continues to decrease year in and year out. A lot of that is because the type of men we are attracting to our organizations are the ones who are looking to do well academically, who are looking to get something out of college beyond the party experience.

Michael Biehn

I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.

Jon Lindhout

If someone moves here from the Midwest, the first thing that is attracting them here is the water.

Dan Rottenberg

One of the big challenges of family companies is attracting outside talent.

Jeffrey Grau

Online retailers were very successful in attracting early holiday shoppers by offering incentives such as free shipping and discounts. However low prices may end up hurting Web merchants' profit margins in the long run.

Koichiro Suzuki

Money is starting to shift to insurers. They are attracting buyers who are betting on the inflated value of their assets.

James Gray

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

John M. Smith

We're kind of an Ellis Island type of setup.

Beto O'Rourke

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

Frans Ludeke

We are missing that spark and if we can find it there will be fireworks at Ellis Park.

David Souter

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

Jim Lee

'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.

Keith Burns

This is the first time that Ellis will go to auction. And indeed, for the Hollywood prop houses, this is the end of an era.

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Pat Conacher

Players have to realize they're playing for their jobs right now.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

Bebe Neuwirth

I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so."

Becca Fitzpatrick

I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I got a new job.” Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Curtis Sumpter

I think of it all the time. I think we could be national champions. But even with us not out there, I still think we can be.

Charles Golvin

Manufacturers need to synchronize handset releases with network launches.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

Gene Pierce

He can't outspend us, he doesn't have a grass-roots network like ours, and he's got no credibility on the issues. So how does that make him a front-runner?

Larry Ellison

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

David McSweeney

I have been totally smeared on network TV, and it's a complete, outright, unmitigated lie.

Mick Jagger

Network television. They're always worried about how many times you're going to say f--- on the air.

Gail Evans

Networking is not about you -- it's about putting people together.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

J. M. Roberts

We see some representatives out here, but I think most sit in their offices and don't see the people that they affect,

Peter Gould

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Javier Sambrano

Our presence has really been more about monitoring the students for safety than anything else.

Karen Scott

I'm here for him. My presence for him is all that matters.

Courtney Sims

I was just trying to be aggressive, and I just wanted to be a presence out there.

Paul Steidler

Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds,

Courtney Sims

I was trying to be more of a presence on defense. I wanted to be more active.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Elaine Deck

Someone has to be the first to reach out.

Lonnie Bunch

That support allows me to reach out and do the work we need to do.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Alan Sugar

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Mark Fuhrman

I know that on LAPD they have used psychics. They used it on the Hillside strangler case. I'm not sure on the Richard Ramirez case. I can't say one thing or another about it. I've read about it. I really don't have a lot to say about if it works or if it doesn't.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.