Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

Kathryn Harrison

I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

John Holt

We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.

Ron Hutchins

This project provides a unique opportunity for the students and faculty at Georgia Tech to gain experience with a compelling new platform for next-generation wireless applications.

Laila Ali

'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Kate Reardon

There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Glenn Britt

We have a wonderful physical plant in place. The key is to focus on the consumer and what they want and not get enamored with the technology. If we focus on the consumer, we should see all the technologies as opportunities.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Ken Goldstein

There are a lot of factors here, but more than anything else, we haven't had a full jobs recovery, and the consumer is waiting for that. These numbers reflect they're kind of running out of patience.

Curtis Arnold

There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.

Joe Wilcox

There is a lot of developer and consumer interest around these applications.

Henry Harteveldt

There is categorically no consumer harm being done right now.

Rick Barnes

We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.

Charlotte Bronte

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

John Hofland

We've seen demand go up here and nationwide. We think the market's there to supply more fuel.

Subir Raha

We have received this demand and we are shocked.

Andrew Shipley

The fact that public works spending is about to slow shouldn't raise concern. It's only if private demand is not recovering, and there are signs that private demand is recovering.

Claudia Rapkoch

The fact is Bozeman is growing. There is a lot of demand on our service as a result, and we have a responsibility to meet the demands of our customers.

Terry Carroll

There is a lot of demand for power in the marketplace right now.

Kate Capshaw

There is a lot of demand for a 4, and no doubt a 5, 6, 7 and 8. I think George would just make as many as Harrison and Steven would like.

Yuli Tamir

There is no doubt that our demand for the Finance Ministry is a legitimate one and part of our world view.

Hoshyar Zebari

We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Jan Garbarek

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Kirsten Dunst

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Charles Lynch

We're starting to see signs of life. The question is how quick the rest of the industry can scale down its infrastructure to make it viable.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Marlene Rosenberg

We want everyone to be welcome to Beth Zion. That is a big message of Messiah.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

Elizabeth Kenny

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Jon Tetzchner

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Keith Lichtman

The pricing was unbelievable, just when you think there is no such thing as a steal in New York.

David Larcher

The pricing that we got . . . was just so irrational.

Paul Ballew

When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs.

Ray Waddell

Promoters are providing more value. Rather than discounting, they're trying to get the pricing right.

David Robertson

The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be.

Stephany Sofos

It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world.

James Murdoch

We don't rule out any pricing or promotional initiatives.

David Cole

In a small vehicle, pricing is a pretty dicey type of thing.

David Kerr

A lot of sellers are still pricing to the higher-end and their properties are still sitting there, and they're not considering realistic offers.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Nick Cave

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Carol P. Christ

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

Carlos Castaneda

The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend

Carl Friedrich Gauss

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

Agnes Repplier

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Charlie Crist

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Charles Wagner

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

David Cunliffe

Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Barbara Hepworth

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

Brian Tracy

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

Jamie Hyneman

If at first you don't succeed, C4

Bill Gates

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Bill Gates

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Ben Horowitz

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Aaron Swartz

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Alan Kay

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ted Chiang

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Don Cheadle

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.