Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Murphy

Paula's appeal for us is that she's a strong player. The elements of performance and competitiveness are her appeal.

Robin Gross

Our main goal, ... is to build a strong, solid record to take to the appeals court, where civil liberties are taken more seriously.

Ken Schwarz

Our line-up really is a mix of shows that will appeal to all types of guests.

Nick Barth

People often ask us if we think our place is too small. I think it's that intimate setting that gives Pioneer Place the appeal that it has.

Merrill Lynch

Stephanie Villalba lost her sex discrimination case. She lost her claim for costs. She has now lost her appeal on points of law relating to victimization and unequal pay. It is time for both of us to move on.

Lou Raffetto

Springtime in Maryland is always an exciting time. We believe that it will be even more appealing this year as a result of the nature of the program and increases in the stakes.

Tim Brosnan

Spider-Man 2 Weekend is a part of our continuing marketing efforts to appeal to younger fans in new and non-traditional ways.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

Charlie Crist

Our rule on this was to render an opinion as to whether the board has jurisdiction, ... There's two parties that remain in this at this time: the museum and the board. Either of those two parties can appeal to a court.

Scott Faber

Recreation produces better economic benefits than barge traffic.

Katie Bayne

Regardless of which Coca-Cola brand is their favorite, My Coke Rewards will give everyone who loves Coca-Cola the chance to benefit from their passion for the brand in a unique and special way.

Jim Lowe

Regardless of economic conditions, employers should have severance and separation benefits updated to remain competitive.

Bruce Josten

Reform is critical if we are to encourage businesses to offer a pension benefit now, while many workers still have time to build for their retirement. Without reform, more workers will be forced to rely on Social Security, which is already facing financial difficulty.

Thomas Barnett

Price-fixing threatens our free market system and robs consumers of the benefit of competitive prices. We vigorously investigate and prosecute companies and individuals involved in these conspiracies.

Chris Tomlinson

Our research proves, very clearly, that onshore wind will deliver, bringing major benefits to the economy and the environment while securing our energy supplies.

Amr Moussa

Our reform will not come to fruition, regionally and that everyone in this region will benefit from, except if peace prevails,

Eva Obarzanek

Participants in the two intervention groups made greater changes than those in the control group and saw the greatest benefit in blood pressure status. This shows that people at risk for heart disease can successfully and simultaneously make multiple changes in lifestyle, for a substantial benefit.

Allan Smith

Part of the scholarship process is to hopefully encourage students to stay in the region and use the things they learn to benefit our region,

John Styll

Part of the reason is to build the brand of Music City and to have it have a worldwide reputation that June in Music City is a smorgasbord of stuff.

Dave Dickson

Part of why Kleenex and all the leading brands use virgin fibers is because of the strength and softness of the tissue.

Herbert Hainer

Our mission is to be the leading sports brand in the world. This definitely brings us a huge step ahead,

Edward Fox

People have positive associations with George Foreman. Part of the value of having a good, positive brand image, like George Foreman does, is you can take that brand and you can put it on new products.

Mark Gibson

People have more media choices than ever before, and this is a unique and different way to get our brand out there.

Jack Trout

People like to bring back the old stuff. These are all classic brands so they have a history ... it is sort of reintroducing the brand to a new generation, using the old symbols.

John Masefield

Success is the brand on the brow of a man who has aimed too low.

Joe Eberhardt

Our strategy with Jeep is to expand the brand at the upper end and entry level while staying true to the brand hallmarks of freedom, adventure, mastery, authenticity and capability while maintaining the brand's global appeal.

Philip Bowman

Our focus remains on generating profitable value from our existing portfolio of powerful brands and on strengthening the portfolio and our distribution capabilities through acquisition and joint venture.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

David Marra

People like lower prices if they can get the same quality, but convincing Japanese consumers of the quality takes a lot of time.

Marshal Cohen

Sports footwear usually is also the first place urban consumers will spend money to endorse a celebrity. As we've already seen, people will pay over $100 for the G-Unit or an S-Carter Reebok if it creates the right image for them.

Randall Baumberger

Our store should be like CES; it should be like the toy store. Our consumers are willing to try new products.

Anthony Noto

Our survey results reinforce our outlook for a continued slowdown in e-commerce sales. At this early juncture of the holiday season, consumers are not shifting a significant share of spending online from offline.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Chris Jones

Our (pitching) coordinator always talks about developing a winning attitude.

Dwane Casey

Our trend the whole year has been developing a rhythm in the first quarter. Then once (Kevin Garnett) comes out we kind of get off kilter.

Dan Glickman

Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future,

Jim Greenwood

Malaysia is an important market with a strong interest in developing its biotechnology industry.

Becky Dyer

We now have peer tutors. They're developing relationships with each other.

Pat Riley

I think they have great respect for New Jersey. They are a very effective team right now and they're developing a lot of confidence.

Gerald Galloway

It is an important part of the U.S. economy, and it's even more important in the developing world. You have to be able to provide water for agriculture.

Caron Butler

Our main thing was to go .500 or better (on the road trip). Now that we've got three wins, why stop now? Let's make up for some of the losses earlier in the season.

Dennie McDaniel

Our team goal this year was to host a playoff match and we've accomplished that. Our second goal is to win region. We lost to them earlier (in a non-region match). We've gotten better since then and they've gotten better. It's going to be a great match Tuesday night." ()

Ken Skilton

Our goal as a team was to win the sectional, and it's even sweeter since we tied Maple Heights earlier this season. In the finals, some guys wrestled well and some didn't. But we had some tough matches.

Rick Comley

Right now, you hope to find a way to win and we did. We were resilient enough to win tonight. Probably, earlier in the year we wouldn't have done that.

Earl Spencer

Respect for the family's privacy at this stage is thought to be only just, in view of the public nature of the earlier part of the day.

Peter Dunne

Most of the Q1 openings were earlier than planned and have been performing better than anticipated in the short time they have been opened.

Keiichi Sano

It is a very choppy market. The earlier hurricane threat did impact the U.S. oil market. Refinery runs were being reduced as workers got evacuated. Now Emily looks to be approaching.

Mike Sullivan

I think St. Joseph is a much better team that they were in December. Their third and fourth swimmers are swimming much better this time of year than they were earlier in the year.

Brian Fuentes

That was unfortunate for Zach. He was a guy that had some issues earlier and was starting to come back, and it stinks that his season's over.

Robin Li

Our strategy has proven to be a winning strategy. We will be able to maintain and expand our position.

Anne Hendricks

It is a pilot program, and we'll be looking at how they do. We're always looking for ways to expand our services.

Charles Prince

Jim is really going to be helping us expand the footprint. We don't need a peacemaker internally.

John Barker

It gives you the opportunity to update your motel. You can expand your motel if the rooms become available.

Robert Brown

I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.

Jerry Colangelo

I think he's done a great job of positioning himself in terms of his persona and conduct. In representing his country, he can expand on that.

Stephen Phillips

I'd like to see it expand to include more artists,

Michael Jordan

I am hooked. Next year, I am looking to expand the team, looking to compete. I want to win.

John Trudell

I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.

Matt Cressman

Paul worked his butt off tonight. I thought he had waited too long to pass it, but he timed it just right and Mike finished it for us.

Jesse Jackson

Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.

Sean Foster

Steve played fired-up tonight. He was taking hits and still finishing plays inside. When he can score inside it opens up things for our shooters.

Jerry Wainwright

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

Karl Malone

Starting off my career, I wasn't a good free throw shooter, and I worked at it and worked at it, and now I want to go up there and shoot free throws, and now... it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about how many guys have played the game... when I finish playing and I look back on it, I think it'll be huge. Right now I'm still playing the game, it's kind of tough to really stop and think about it.

Catherine Lee

Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.

Brent Eddy

Our team score was good enough to finish third but we still think we can improve our numbers.

Jim Sandusky

Our strength is hitting and offense. We've been moving kids around the infield and outfield and still finishing where they fit in.

Byron Dorgan

Our soldiers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and we must do our part. And that means voting for the funds they need to finish the job.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon. We owe it to the people who need to make a long-term investment in mining in this country.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Harvey Pitt

We meet with lots of people ... we meet with representatives of many investment groups,

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Nayef Rajoub

Our relations have always been excellent. If we don't see each other in person, then we are speaking on the phone every day.

Beck

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Karen Stewart

I was just so delighted, I called her right on the phone right away and said, 'We got it! We got it!' .

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Kevin Garnett

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

Bobby Bowden

I get to sleep. The phone doesn't ring ... If I have a two-hour flight, I get to sleep for an hour-and-a-half.

Paul Jacobs

We may see WCDMA phones at those price points, between $100 and $120, toward the end of this year.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Bill Harris

Our Quicken product had the most profitable season in its 15-year history,

John Shanahan

I think there's a lot of product swapping going on now.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Chris Bosh

That's what I'm trying to see, we're trying to wait for the smoke to clear, and see the product from all of this.

Henry Scott

I think this could be a $1 billion-a-year-drug and is the kind of product Pfizer needs.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Rebecca Lindland

It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Myles Munroe

Trust is a product of test over time.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Deanna Anderson

Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Barbara Ryan

There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be visible in terms of products for quite some time.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Dwane Casey

Our second quarter killed us. If we get anything at all in the second quarter, we're in tall cotton.

Eric Benhamou

Our seasonally weak third quarter was exacerbated by several factors.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Rick Ochoa

I think the weather you're seeing in Texas is very unusual. You would have to go back to the '50s to see the kind of dryness you're seeing. I don't think we've seen anything like this in a generation.

Johnny Damon

That was good, just seeing Keith out there, doing his thing. He's only going to get better.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Jim Myers

I'd vote for her in a heartbeat. I didn't think that before seeing what she's about.

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Woody Williams

When he's seeing everything good, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

Bob Hartley

We need some big saves. The teams that are doing well in the standings are getting the big saves. You need solid goaltending.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Jim Schmidt

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

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.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

David Granger

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

Eric Garland

It's just like if Sony went out of business. Your Sony television would still function.

Stephen Baker

Sony has always wanted to go its own way,

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!