Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Martinez

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Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team. We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team, ... We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Ted Spadaro

Our players have to understand that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, getting to play the No. 2 team in the state. You get that opportunity, try to take advantage of it, and you take it from there.

Reed Hastings

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

John Schwarz

Organizations are placing a premium on the value of accurate, complete, and timely information. Enterprise information management provides Business Objects with a significant competitive advantage in what we can offer our customers, and we expect it to play an important role in our future growth plans.

Paul Fix

Patience is going to be key around the narrow circuit. I'm close enough to the lead pack, I intend to stay with the lead pack and take advantage of any opportunities that come my way,

Steve Mansfield

Paying people to search and share what they've found is a concept that's gaining in popularity. Community and social search is the wave of the future, but these types of sites need to quickly build high-quality, human-indexed content, and their members are looking for the motivation to participate in this effort. Further, advertisers are anxious to take advantage of targeting large groups of users that are all interested in common products and services, which PreFound.com provides.

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Bill Pecoriello

restructuring and reorganization plans don't seem to be fully completed yet.

Houston Nutt

That was good then. I'm glad they cheered. I wish we would have completed it. I would have stood up and cheered if we completed it.

Gary Jobson

I woke up at the end of this past summer and thought, 'I've just completed my 50th year in sailing.' I'm 55 and started when I was six.

Mao Asada

I'm so happy to have completed the two triple axels. I wasn't really thinking about winning this championship too much. I was more concerned with trying to land the two triple axels.

Garry Kasparov

I don't have to run for Presidency in Russia to feel good about myself. I already completed more than many people could have dreamed of.

Michael Patrick Hearn

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

Max Pirner

Four years ago, we had paving crews working all over Forest Cove. We were promised that the striping would be done when the paving work was completed, but when the paving was completed we were told they could no longer stripe the streets.

Ron Sims

King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy.

Dan Stessel

It is a $23 million project divided into three phases, and it is currently in the second phase. We are currently doing work on the eastern end of the platform, and Phase II will be completed this fall. Phase III will shift to the west end and will be six months in duration. The entire project will be completed by next spring.

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.

Sandra Anderson

Part of it is due to lack of rainfall.

Brian Ainsworth

(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.

Nita Lowey

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

Roger Cursley

Some of the sectors that have gone so far like miners and the oil stocks are due to come back a little, and it doesn't take much in those big sectors to take the index down.

David Briggs

Our pattern has been a tough month, followed by a good one, and it looks like we're due for a good one.

Sigve Brekke

Our sales and profit should grow due to higher subscribers this year.

Damien Newton

Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be reversing that trend by having stricter enforcement.

Donn Walker

Our understanding was that this was an emergency landing due to engine trouble.

Danny Smith

Robinson is due for a major revival. We have to provide a reliable source for people.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Nancy Ford

Swapping merchandise and cashing in on your gift certificates.

Adlin Sinclair

Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.

Todd Whitaker

We need all our teachers to be as good as our 'good' teachers. Instead, we think programs are the problem or programs are the solution. The most valuable gift you can give yourself is confidence.

Andrew Young

I think there's just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.

Randy Waynick

January is a pretty strong month because of the gift cards.

Bob Sullivan

That was just an exceptional gift to help us pay someone's rent.

Erykah Badu

I was given a tremendous gift and a platform, and it is my responsibility to use my platform to do the work of the Most High.

Avery Johnson

I think I'm gifted to do what I'm doing, that this is what I'm here for.

Plaxico Burress

Our offense has to go out and be crisp, be sharp. We have to do everything we can, not so much to pick up the defense, but to give us some momentum heading into the playoffs.

Samuel Butler

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Jerry Sloan

Maybe I'll have 12 captains, ... I've got a lot of things going on in my head with that right now.

LaVar Arrington

I might have to put my head up and keep them from rolling down. I might get a little emotional. It's been a long road.

Brendan Haywood

I might have got in his head a little bit.

Jason Giambi

I was all over the place then. I had been hit (by a pitch) in the head and had been doing so much work since spring training to try and make up for last year that I was just strung out. But I knew it would change.

Danielle Brown

I was mad. They already made one run that shouldn't have happened. But we put our heads together and picked up the defense. That's where everything starts.

Paul Reilly

I think there's an over-obsession with monthly numbers. We've now had two years in a row with over 2 million jobs added, and it looks like we're headed for a third year.

Nick Barnett

I think there would be a lot of support for him to be a head coach. If that's the route that Ted Thompson and the organization want to take, I'm sure there would be a lot of support for him.

Elton Adams

Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet.

Andrew Mack

We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons.

Daniel Blumenthal

I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,

Howard Davidowitz

I think there will be heavy promotions over the holidays because retailers have not been meeting their sales plans.

Phil Noblitt

That's a very heavy part of who we are.

Jason Alexander

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Shameik Moore

I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Bill Clinton

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Greg Lynn

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Martin Jacques

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Rodel Natividad

It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".

Richard Petty

They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are.

Tom Mitchell

It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code.

Emily Oster

All's fair in love and purchasing.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Dennis Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

Glenn Hughes

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Jim Messina

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Alison Brie

I like to have my breakfast in bed, and I use that time to watch the recorded shows on my TiVo. I seldom watch shows in real time - I'm always at work.

Mahathir Mohamad

I read that the investigation is not complete. Statements have yet to be recorded from several other people,

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Bill Bryson

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bethenny Frankel

I despise shopping and department stores.

William Leach

I think they've been shopping this around for a while,

Bill Vaughan

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

Jim Daniels

I am just so used to shopping there.

Pat Brown

I think it's gorgeous. I think I'll be shopping here a lot.

Howard Struletz

When you put all that together, it's a pretty wide shopping experience.

Miley Cyrus

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

Elinor Lipman

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Michael Robinson

It is expensive, but as long as it's efficient, we'll spend the money.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Sam Huber

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

Wally Herger

Whatever is in Medicare, ... we're not going to spend it.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.