Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shannon Patten

Many of our associates attach significance to holding more shares. As a stockholder, I am thrilled about the outcome of the vote.

Ujjwal Nikam

Now that he is in India and in custody, police can trace his network of associates all over the country.

Marc Benioff

When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is,

Chris Brathwaite

We want to make sure the stores have the flexibility to utilize associates in a way that allows them to more efficiently and effectively serve customers.

Bunny Richardson

Because of the efficiency we've achieved, we don't have to replace associates one for one.

Sam Walton

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

Ed Rohling

We are deeply saddened by the death and injuries, and our prayers are with our guests, associates and their families. We have relocated guests to other accommodations in the city. We will determine when the hotel will re-open following the investigation and evaluation of the extent of the damage.

Muhammad Ali

Whereas the degrees of rationality vary and some minds are distinguished over others, these clerks, if not convinced of what the Pasha has given them, must turn to their associates with the problem, and if all see an excess or shortcoming in the matter, then they should turn to the Pasha and present the requisite information.

Alan Huffman

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

Derek Waters

My dream is to be able to make something in Baltimore that's just there. Make a movie or make a show there. I only left because there wasn't any opportunity except being an extra in Barry Levinson or John Waters movies.

Greg Genske

If Boston is able to work out a trade with Baltimore or another team, Manny is still open to making a move.

Kevin Byrne

Getting games such as this to Baltimore is difficult because Maryland wants home games and Navy wants home games and they both want them at their own facilities,

Judith Stein

If we're really concerned about negotiating the best prices possible, the best way is to buy in bulk for all 43 million beneficiaries. Wal-Mart figured that out. Wal-Marts in Baltimore and in Hartford (Conn.) don't negotiate on their own.

Anna Deavere Smith

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

Ira Glass

My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

Bob Lilly

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

Phil Savage

We felt like we made a lot of strides and are beginning to put some things in place that are going to help us become a winning team. We know we have a long way to go. Being in a tough division with Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati will elevate our play and elevate our standards. In order for us to compete in our own division, we're going to have to get a lot better and a lot quicker.

Jerome Holtzman

Years later, I was in Baltimore one day and I talked to (then-manager) Johnny Oates. He said, 'You changed the game. You created the ninth-inning pitcher.' I said, 'It was the managers who did it. They started holding back their best relief pitchers to get saves.'

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Robert McKinley

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Dave Wannstedt

Leonard can make big plays; he's already shown that ... The biggest thing about this team is they have talent and experience on offense.These guys are all seniors and most of them have played for two or three years.

George Borjas

Low-skill ... illegal immigration has the biggest negative impact on the wage of low-skill workers.

Russ Diamond

Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very few Pennsylvanians being represented there.

Melissa Allen

Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.

Rob Ridings

Last year, we were just hoping to win games. Now, we have the mindset that we have a chance to win and we expect to win. That's one of the biggest changes our kids have made in the last year.

Damien Mason

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.

Jim Damoulakis

Many organizations have ILM initiatives or are interested in starting one because of all the publicity. But the biggest driver is that storage costs are growing at an astronomical rate, and they're being mandated to cut the storage budget.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Ken Davis

Make your trips count too, don't do too many short trips try to combined the trips into one longer trip.

Frank Nothaft

Low rates combined with the up-tick in consumer confidence are strong indications that the housing market will continue to prosper into the summer months,

Amy Cutts

Lower figures for the recently released producer price index and consumer price index and lower, but still strong, gross domestic product, combined with the seasonal slowdown in the housing market, led to another decline in mortgage rates this week.

Amy Cutts

Lower figures for the recently released producer-price index and consumer- price index, and lower but still strong gross domestic product, combined with the seasonal slowdown in the housing market led to another decline in mortgage rates this week.

Floyd Reese

Last year, we had seven players leave. Those seven players had a combined 52 playoff games. We've signed four players to date, and those four have 30 playoff games ? a younger, healthier group. I think you can see the direction we're headed.

Alan Ackerman

One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to get the market going.

James Blake

My defense has definitely gotten a little better. My serve's gotten a little stronger. I've put on four or five pounds, which I think has helped me make it through the long seasons without getting injured. I think all that combined is turning into me feeling more confident when I play Top 10 players like I did today.

Lawrence Goodman

More sluggish economic growth combined with success in reducing inflation provides a potent mix for the authorities to cut rates.

Steve Baker

Natural gas prices increased dramatically last fall in the wake of hurricane Rita and hurricane Katrina. Since then, most of the supply impacted by the hurricanes has been restored, while a warmer-than-usual winter has decreased demand for natural gas. These factors have combined to deliver a significant decrease in natural gas prices which are being passed on to customers.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Joe McGrath

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Schelley Olhava

The prices for PS3 they are presenting are not necessarily accurate, and there is no firm confirmation from Sony that the launch will be later than this spring.

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

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.

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.

Glenn Martin

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

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,

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Nigel Hamilton

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Steven Armstrong

TREC has just opened things up for him. When he comes home, it's gleaming out of him; it spills over, ... That's why it's so important for us to continue.