Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

John Hutton

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Michael Chapman

Our new 32-bit processors promise to be some of the fastest, smallest, and most energy-efficient available. We researched many options for getting them to market, and are excited about delivering these innovative cores with the proven, well-respected people at CAST.

Patrick Cescau

Our savings programs are delivering well and, together with an improved mix, they have enabled us to fully offset the impact of higher input costs,

Cynthia Carroll

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

Jonathan Schwartz

That's the next wave of innovation not the Web page but delivering services through the Internet. This is not your father's Internet.

David Blunkett

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

Mary Gill

I don't think our school police officers should be delivering mail when it's something that we can receive via the Internet. They have more important things to do.

Maria Cantwell

He's played this leadership role for (Sens.) Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, delivering for them, slamming down programs that I think would be effective and the people of Washington state want,

Viktor Yushchenko

I have heard a lot of stories and legends on how this poison has been delivered, where it has been produced, which secret services were used for delivering it in Ukraine,

Danny Ainge

I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient player, he scores with fewer shots.

Murry Bartow

I think Webb is one of the most efficient players in the league.

Jason Nelson

I was very impressed to see how well it is planned out, that they are concentrating on more efficient means of transportation for the community.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Michael Glos

I find him really efficient and I think he's perfect for every post.

Steve Carr

I would say they were very heroic. I understand the staff was efficient and professional.

Dave Cassels

John is a really efficient guy when it comes to this kind of stuff, and he has been really good at helping out the association. He's been involved in all of the layout and planning for the website.

Jim Hossack

I suspect it will be Mexico and not be a UAW facility. The UAW won't like it, but Ford doesn't have a choice. Manufacturing has to go where it's most efficient and low-cost.

Eric Roberts

I have a lot of experience running meetings, ... I think I've learned how to make them efficient rather than heavy-handed.

Martin Winterkorn

Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

Tim Frank

Our policy . . . does not require a player to take a drug test at any point during a game, and we will ensure going forward that no testing is conducted during this time.

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Ramalinga Raju

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Rob Conway

Our goal is to ensure that in future, every notebook will be SIM ready.

Dayle Stewart

Our crews are ensuring that their trucks are stocked with all the equipment that they might need. We're going to ensure that all the trucks have been fueled and are ready to go at a moment's notice.

Bob Goodlatte

Our trading partners need to understand that we will do everything possible to ensure the competitive position of American farmers and ranchers,

Jon Postel

reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Brian O'Connor

Our offensive execution was really good, and I think that was the story of the game.

Todd Bradshaw

Our offensive execution started rolling in the second half. We were able to run a few more of our sets with our main players and get control.

Bill Belichick

Overall, there are still a number of things we can do better. We had problems with penalties in the first half, no question about that. We weren't as sharp as we need to be in execution or in terms of assignments.

Barry Diller

Results for the quarter and year are better than good; superb execution is the reason.

Rick Barnes

I think they know I'm upset because I think they know how much I want execution. It's always disappointing when you don't execute.

Kyle Lohse

That was terrible execution at that time. Things weren't going my way, and that capped it off right there.

Doc Rivers

I was really happy with our young guys. I was really using it (the game) to try to teach execution to the young guys.

Leonard Hamilton

I was proud of the way that we maintained our intensity. It's obvious that the guys learned a lot from our lack of execution our last time out.

Brian Rafalski

I think some of the execution isn't there. We're looking for too much and making things more difficult.

Gigi Sohn

pleased to see many of the pro-competitive features of the draft.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Devon Bostick

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Jeff Pulver

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Chris Stokes

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Romy Schneider

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

Donovan Campbell

Ms. Willey features very prominently in our filing today.

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.

Luis Carriles

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

Greg Brenneman

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

H. Hunt

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

Jim Adams

My hope is that we will get the framework of how financing can be done. I am pretty confident.

Bill Brandt

Now that the financing is lined up, I think there will be other parties that come to the fore.

George Hood

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

Gillian Armstrong

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

Kent Mergler

When you are selling a $20,000 item, it's not unusual to have financing arm,

Kenneth Relihan

It is kind of a flexible kind of situation.

Elliot Jacobowitz

I think he thought it was more flexible to take a pad of paper, usually a yellow pad and a pencil and he would make a million scratch outs.

Ben Bernanke

I do not subscribe to any rigid and mechanical rule ... I intend to be flexible and to learn from experience.

Michael Spencer

Because of the unique (layout) of the property we are able to be flexible in multiple party venues.

Kara Bunte

I think the organization has shown great strength . . . but it is challenging. We are being as flexible as we can in terms of providing aid.

Ron James

His system isn't as flexible as I would like it to be. Not that it doesn't work. Certainly, it does work.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Tim Vine

So I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?" He said "How flexible are you?". I said "I can't make Tuesdays".

Mark Regev

We want to be as flexible as we can on the issue of the crossings.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Edouard Michelin

Our operating income is showing progress. Yet, it does not reflect the group's growth potential. That is why in 2006, we will strengthen our focused growth strategy and strengthen our cost-reduction efforts.

John Mesenbrink

Our kids were very focused and very tenacious today. Our guys had 12 pins for the day. I thought our seniors really did well. All three of those guys did great jobs for us.

Dick Armey

stay focused on the singular question: Is taxing marriage appropriate?

Rodney Taylor

Our pitcher wasn't focused -- we had too many walks, and hitting-wise, we weren't there. It's one of those games where you get away as quick as you can.

Paul Rozak

Our girls really played well, especially the four minutes in the fourth quarter. They (Assumption) have a really nice team, very similar to us because of their versatility inside and out. We needed our rebounding tonight and that was what we focused on for this game.

Kevin Boyd

Our game has to be focused on us. Most of what we're trying to do is to get better every game.

Ron Averill

I'm hoping they can stay focused and relax at the same time. The sad thing would be to go down there and have all kinds of success and not have any fun with it. I want this to be something the kids can remember and tell their grandkids about.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Mel Netzhammer

People have been so welcoming, including the vice presidents.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Nathan Brown

I think the second offence should be made public for everyone's sake, including the sponsors.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Tim Long

It didn't do any major damage, but it woke up a lot of people in Atlanta, including me.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Francois Bourguignon

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed,

Lee Price

Most of the population, they are not realizing real income gains.

Berkeley Breathed

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

Bruce Norris

It is as if you had a second job and are paying income tax on it.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

John McGrath

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Maureen Murphy

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Wally Schirra

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's quite normal. It's not a macho thing -- it's something that can happen.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Kimberley Nixon

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

Bob Holt

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had trouble getting games, but if we all do our share ...

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Sabrina Davis

Some of the meetings are just a big mess. I'm sure if they reduced, they'd run much better.

Kevin Quinn

Our staff has been meeting today with advocates and also with members of the Legislature

Hosni Mubarak

We need another meeting and we need more deliberation,

John Chaney

I will meet with him whenever he desires. He made some nice overtures to me that he wanted my support and I'm going to support him.

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Vernon Davis

Just from being around them and meeting with them, it seems as if they would take me.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Jean Dellios

We look at properties before sending anything out.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Donald Trump

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

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Jim Simmons

We sell most of our properties in 30 days. What most sellers want is their property sold as quickly as possible.

Barry Sternlicht

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Peggy Moriarty

They just don't get to use it as much as they would like. They have properties all over the world.

Dwane Casey

He's going to take some time to rehab it and get it well.

Arthur Machen

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Corazon Aquino

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Alvaro Uribe

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

Ann Coulter

I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot.

Amy Winehouse

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

Akhmad Kadyrov

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Rick Burkholder

We're going to rehab him like he's going to play again.

Jim Rosborough

It won't require surgery, so all he'll have to do is rehab it.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.