Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rakesh Shankar

Refinery utilization still remains very weak, with refineries still lagging in their recovery from an aggressive March maintenance schedule.

William Sullivan

Our research finds that green space produces consistently positive impact, from stronger social ties to better attention skills and less aggressive behavior, helping reduce violence.

David Lucas

Our position is there are going to be aggressive incentives on 2004 pretty much right off the bat, ... The sentiment of customers is if they come in and it doesn't have a promotion on it, they'll wait until it comes on. And the automakers know that.

Fabio Capello

Parma were too aggressive in the first half, ... I knew that they would not be able to keep that pace all match long. We performed really well after the break. I picked up the right players and I am glad about the result. We were slow in the first half but we hugely improved our passing game in the second.

Lamont Bryant

Patrick is the best player in the state. There are a lot of scorers in Illinois, but how many defend and rebound the way he does? What puts him at a level with other top players is he is very athletic and plays hard all the time. He gets at least 10 points a game playing aggressive defense.

Tim Bryant

Pascagoula came out and played inspired. They were aggressive and had a good game plan. Give them credit. We were tight, but I'm proud of them for taking care of business in the second half.

Raul Ibanez

Our offense has a nice pace, a nice feel right now. We're being aggressive when we have to, being patient when we have to. Good balance up and down the lineup, good approaches at the plate.

Peter Jones

Our office will conduct a vigorous investigation and an aggressive defense on behalf of Mr. Wesson.

Brian Hill

Steve has played under control and yet at the same time has been aggressive at driving the basketball and creating opportunities. He's really played well lately.

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.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Stephane Deo

Our view that the domestic economy will improve this year is very much on track. We saw already that investment growth is starting to kick in and that will support consumption eventually.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Margita Thompson

most rigorous protections in the nation for domestic partners.

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Erik Autor

Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.

Nariman Behravesh

Record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy.

Toby Chaudhuri

President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.

Scott Nichols

Participation in this league has been outstanding this season. Our numbers have more than doubled in the last three years, and it is great fun to have all that new energy in the league.

Kathleen Hogan

Partners like USAA Real Estate Co. are national leaders in energy efficiency.

Gary Grandbois

PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are still looking at double-digit growth in PCs.

Seimone Augustus

Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top. I felt I needed to do something to step up my game.

Kevin Wright

Our live show is very entertaining. It's energy filled. We love to banter back and forth with the audience.

Spencer Abraham

Our national energy policy will stress the need to diversify America's energy supply,

Mike Duffy

Starting now, farmers need to think more cautiously about their energy use.

Stephen Gallagher

Retailers have no pricing power themselves, as evidenced by all the discounts they had to offer to generate holiday sales. In terms of volume, they succeeded, but not at the level of profitability they would have liked.

Bill Pecoriello

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Ellen Embrey

I think it'll help hopefully generate some response and interest. If that's what it takes, then, obviously it's a good thing.

Darrell Davis

I think it's just a way to generate revenue.

Greg Hirsch

I thought we did everything possible to generate offense.

Koyie Hill

More than anything I want to be on a team that I can help win. You want to feel like you're a part of something and feel like you generate some of that team's success by what you do.

Sam Altman

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Joan Claybrook

Overall, this measure is insufficient because it focuses on disclosing corruption, rather than deterring it.

Source Unknown

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Jacques Chirac

It is a measure of protection and precaution,

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

Anne McCaffrey

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Guenther Hujara

Bode raises the question, but there is not a question.

Kate Christensen

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

Frank McDonald

You're working, but we're not getting as many raises as we used to.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Tina Porter

I want you to look at these pictures, Dan. I want you to think of Sam and Lindsey. Just keep thinking of them.

Chris Cox

It doesn't surprise me. That's the type of person Sam is.

Richard Madden

I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

James Cronin

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

Roger Penske

Having Sam on this team has been tremendous,

Jake Palluzzi

He (Healy) really stepped up his game. He took the team on his back, trying to take up the slack with Sam (Barnes) out with a sprained ankle.

Elon Musk

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Kid Cudi

I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to where it's more of a reimagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn't even be able to tell what it was unless I told you.

Donald Brownlee

When you have the samples in hand, it's a whole different universe.

David Somerville

I'll be on the convoys taking the supplies to the infantry,

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Devin Nunes

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Scott Walker

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Buzz Aldrin

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

John Thune

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Maggie Brooks

I think there would be some reimbursement, unclear what that reimbursement would be,

Two Chainz

You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

Charles Darwin

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

Ben Feldman

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Dominic Chianese

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Dominic Chianese

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

Dominic Chianese

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

Dominic Chianese

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

Abraham Lincoln

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.