Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Goldstein

Regardless of what this document is, why is the E.P.A. ignoring its well-reasoned conclusions? And what does this say about the ability of the E.P.A. to compel G.E. to do anything?

Janet Rayfield

Regardless of results or performance, the ability to interact and impact the young student-athletes involved in the Chicago SCORES program was a great opportunity for all of our student-athletes. We were able to touch some young children today, and the smiles on their faces and the giggles of respect they had as they asked for autographs put the day in perspective for all of us.

Chris Kouns

Regan is a very tough and tenacious defender and should compete for playing time very quickly after her arrival on campus. She has good 1 v 1 defending ability and plays a very simple game, which does not often lead her to many mistakes. She is tough to beat, which can help us in the center of our defense and also has the versatility to play on the left side as a man marker.

Jamal Qureshi

Refiners are already going to be feeling a bit of a pinch in their ability to provide supply, and importers as well.

Merrill Lynch

Recent disruptions of crude oil production in Nigeria and tensions between the West and Iran over its nuclear program... have contributed to concerns about OPEC's ability to supply the market.

Jim Brown

Our research indicates that employing enhanced collaboration technologies in product development can have a significant impact on a company's ability to innovate and meet their product development targets. The real world stories presented at the ITS events offered excellent examples of how leading manufacturers are leveraging open design collaboration capabilities such as JT technology to streamline communication throughout their supply chains and bring innovative products to market faster.

Josh Bersin

Our research-based approach distinguishes the Learning Leaders Program from other industry recognition programs. The benchmark criteria that will be used to evaluate submissions is based on years of quantitative and qualitative research and endorsed by our panel of senior industry advisors. Our research database, by far the largest and most comprehensive source of information related to enterprise learning, gives us the ability to rigorously assess organizations against peer performance in more than 21 different dimensions.

Tom Butts

Our panel of editors and columnists walked the show floor in search of innovative and ground-breaking new products. The products we selected made the cut-they demonstrated their ability to help advance the acquisition and dissemination of entertainment media in each category reviewed.

Jerry Calhoun

Our overall offer included several provisions to enhance job security. Still, we continue to believe that job security depends on our ability to improve quality and productivity.

Joe Kasper

Regardless of what this legislation as a whole will cost, the idea is that it is going to save us money in the end. What illegal immigration costs us each year is overwhelming. That is something we can all agree on.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

Regarding this joint venture, we have reached a basic agreement. Talks to complete this package will continue in coming days in Russia.

Tom Daschle

reasonably optimistic that we can come up with a procedural agreement, certainly in the next 24 hours.

David Stern

Realm Realty is agreeable to the 'right in and right out' restriction and is awaiting the county's comments to that drawing. I would think that a deceleration lane, right in - right out, headache bar and sidewalk should appease most everyone. We do appreciate all the input we have received and have diligently worked to try to incorporate many of these suggestions.

Barham Saleh

Regrettably we were not able to reach a draft we could all agree on.

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

Jamie Drummond

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair made great progress and Gordon Brown and John Snow agreed on an excellent proposal for debt cancellation for many of the poorest countries.

Tom Daschle

President Bush and I both support a tax cut and I am confident that we can agree on a plan that benefits all Americans, not just the wealthy.

Phil Fontaine

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

Jeff Toner

Part of the attraction is that a lot of people couldn't get there.

Colleen Stogsdill

That was a huge attraction for my husband. We've tried to do some catering out at our other place, but the kitchen is a lot smaller and it hasn't worked very well. (Ken) is excited to use exercise his culinary muscle.

Mike Phillips

I think this can become a great tourist attraction because people love to visit old cemeteries. This is a great opportunity to point out the history of Chester.

Erwin McManus

I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

Denny Rinehart

I think this group is well-connected. For some reason, there's some real help coming out of the halls this year, and I don't know what the attraction is.

Billy Kennedy

I'm so excited to be here at Murray State. For me, the biggest attraction of all is how the fans and students of Murray State are basketball crazy. I'm looking forward to experiencing it and continuing the great Racer tradition. I'm used to coming into a program and turning it around. This is one that I need to keep going and take it another step further.

Drew Gilpin Faust

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Chris Konieczka

I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison. But now it's got the attraction of a city in dire need, a physical manifestation of a way we can help out.

Esther Williams

I felt a powerful attraction to Victor Mature. I was married, but all the passion and most of the love in that marriage were gone, or going.

Kurt Barnard

Rebates are wonderful to the extent that they are executed, regardless of the deficit.

Tom Masters

People have been quite dissatisfied with the extent of consultation that has taken place.

Anthony Chukumba

I was a little surprised that the fourth quarter guidance at the mid-point is a little weaker than people were looking for ... but to some extent that?s nit-picking.

Robert Herzfeld

The allegations are despicable, ... The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Dr. Roberts

I think time will tell to what extent he recovers from this.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Norman Mineta

I think that's just a swag and so to that extent I don't think that will be the case.

Paul Williams

It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.

Kaz Matsui

I think it was a meaningful day. Just because he retired, I don't think there's any lesser competition. I just want to be on my toes all the time.

Alan Greenspan

the pressure to enlarge the pool of skilled workers also requires that we strengthen the significant contributions of other types of training and educational programs, especially for those with lesser skills.

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Meg White

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Richard Harris

They often have a lesser curriculum, less challenges, less demands. And it's totally unfair to have these two different systems.

Beck

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Clint Black

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

Brendon Urie

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

Linda Ronstadt

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.

Lori Glass

Some have wives or girlfriends that say 'Don't send me roses,' though they specify they want at least one rose.

Dee Brown

That's the way the tournament goes. Wherever they send you, you've just got to go and play.

Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Goodman Ace

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Stephane Dion

There is an urgent need to send a signal to the world about the future.

Patti Hoch

That was our top relay. There's not much else I can say about that other than it was disappointing.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

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!