Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

David Olson

We want MCHA to remain the insurance of last resort. It shouldn't be less expensive to go to MCHA than to stay with my current plan through COBRA.

Ian McDonald

We have resources that can help India develop its steel industry and in the current scenario resource security is the most important aspect.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Andrew Fisher

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Overall, we expect the outlook statement and current trading to be the main share price drivers.

Scott Howell

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

Thomas Bangalter

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

Thomas Woods

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Akhil Gupta

We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.

John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

Larry Pleau

Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game. He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.

Larry Pleau

Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game, ... He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.

Doris Lessing

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

Rob Thomas

I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Johnny Damon

We had opportunities; we just couldn't capitalize. That's the most aggravating thing about this game. When you're not hitting and scoring runs, it dictates how well your season goes.

Joe Wilcox

What these services do differently is protect the messaging environment.

Agnes Smedley

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Philip Baggaley

The external environment is still very difficult, and we expect that they're likely to report a loss this year.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

We all live downstream

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Alan Tudyk

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Chesley Sullenberger

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

Brandon Routh

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

Charles M. Schulz

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

Bob Hope

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Jane Yolen

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Devon Werkheiser

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

David Cross

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

Dave Barry

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,

Byron Katie

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Chita Rivera

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

Casey Affleck

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Bertrand Russell

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

Betty Williams

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

David Stern

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

John Carioba

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Danny Wuerffel

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Brad Garlinghouse

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.