Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Trill

Last year there was somewhat of an absence of the PC from the boom; it was very much consumer electronics centric. This year, I think it will be more evenly balanced where we will see the effects of the consumer cycle include more computing products.

Pichai Lertsupongkit

Many local investors are switching to small-cap stocks on lack of clear direction in blue chips, absence of fresh corporate news and political uncertainty.

Mohammed Nazzal

Sharon's absence removes from the political scene a professional killer who mastered the murder of Palestinians and addressed the most violent, brutal and bloody strikes in the history of the Arab-Israeli struggle. The Palestinian people can only hope that what is coming is better, not worse.

Mark Volpe

Mr. Levine is extremely disappointed about his continuing absence from the BSO podium, and sincerely hopes to return as soon as possible.

Marcos Basaglia

No one really expected a lower rate. It's just that, in the absence of good news, a flat rate added to the profit taking.

Chris Kaman

No offense to Kenyon, but I think (his absence) helps them. Look at their record without him.

Jim Calhoun

Obviously, we are disappointed that Jeff will miss the game at Providence, but the rule as stated in the rule book is very clear. Other players will have to step up and make up for his absence and I have complete confidence that will happen.

Charles Bullock

Obviously, it's a great opportunity for somebody else to build a brand in their absence.

Marc Kennis

Given the current operational performance, the potential to free up large sums of cash and the absence of larger acquisition opportunities, I expect Philips may engage in further share buybacks or pay out higher dividends in 2006.

Marco Brambilla

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

Sam Veda

Man has been exploiting the energy of fire to his advantage since time immemorial. Had it not been for this natural source of energy, all the progress mankind has witnessed would never have been possible. Not a single factory could run without it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex. It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Adrian Raine

Lying is cognitively complex, ... It is not easy to lie. It is certainly more difficult than telling the truth. Some people have a biological advantage in lying. It gives them a slight edge.

Checky Herrington

Making public the conditions of special contracts that utilities are allowed to enter into when recruiting industry would give other states and their utilities an unfair advantage and jeopardize Mississippi's economic future.

Janet Disbennett

Madison and Natalie played (Pickerington Central's girls twice during the regular season in singles. They won both, so we had a mental advantage over them. UA was the bigger match. I wasn't even worried about the finals. The UA match is the one we wanted because anytime you can beat UA, it's big.

D.J. Owens

Lots of teams in the Big East have been giving us wide open 3s and taking away the backdoor. They did the opposite, and we really took advantage of our cutters.

St. Teresa

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Bruce Reed

Let's stop arguing about it, let's pass the president's plan ... more prosecutors, more after-school programs. We can't sit by and watch these trends continue.

Laura McElroy

Several people who were there heard Dexter Bingham arguing with several men. They heard a shot, and Dexter died at the scene.

James Blake

Maybe we'll be humbled a little bit. I think a lot of us need that, so maybe we'll stop arguing with the umpires.

Mark Levine

One of the things we are arguing is that this law in unconstitutionally vague. It bans burning any combustible substance which could be candles or incense. It's not restricted at all to tobacco.

Sathya Baba

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

Bill Rogers

Now people are arguing with him about who he is and what he represents,

Sam Mendes

Obviously, there's a good bit of irony to that scene, ... A lot of what began in that first war (in 1991) can be extrapolated to what we're seeing today. I think those remain issues we should be talking about, even arguing about.

Ed Comeau

From what I've seen all year, that hasn't been called. It's a two-minute at best. That's the consistency factor. It's a two-minute call in every other game. Then Shawn Williams gets a two and a 10 for arguing and that hasn't been called all year.

Jason James

There are people out there arguing that Vodafone shares are worth 70p but that's certainly not our view,

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Glenn Cooper

Many of the elderly will pay their utility bills and go without medication without food.

Rep Clymer

Many of the amendments to the gambling bills have gone to him as well, so it just stands to reason he would get this bill.

Rep. Reece

My concern is that there is going to be a convergence of immigration-related bills and the result will be complex and confusing and the session could end with the bills stranded in a conference committee.

Nora Johnson

More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.

Tina Brown

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

Dee Dee Myers

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

J. Taylor

I can't get down (emotionally). I still have bills to pay and will try to go with the flow. Hopefully, I have enough talent to get another job around here ... I hope they can privatize Lone Star to keep it open and supply jobs.

John Felmy

The prices could go up, and consumption could go up, making bills even larger.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

John Challenger

Layoffs are still very high, and the economy seems to be showing little sign of pulling out of the doldrums, ... These lower cuts may just mean that we aren't seeing any further dips right now -- that we're just in this kind of steady, low-wattage kind of state.

Lindy Ruff

Several of those players had very good camps, but we're limited on room. They're not easy decisions. When usually you go through the first round of cuts you're looking at second-tier guys. Some of these guys will definitely play (in the NHL).

Mike Jerman

No one has advocated tax cuts more than we.

Richard Thompson

Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world.

Anthony Chan

More rate cuts may not be forthcoming, but the Fed is also not likely to start raising rates as quickly as financial markets expect.

Keith Gumbinger

Mortgage rates come down when fixed-income investors think the economy is slowing, not because the Fed cuts rates.

Tommy Thompson

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

Dan Beck

I can't predict what the job cuts would be.

Iris Lav

I would be surprised if there weren't a lot of tax cuts this year.

Kofi Annan

Liberia today is poised between hope and disaster,

Tom Ditt

Less than a week after a major disaster and we're already putting people in housing. We think that's pretty remarkable.

Mark Rosenker

Learning to drive and being distracted is a recipe for disaster.

Irwin Redlener

Many people will be stressed and will require support over a long period of time and will be vulnerable to psychological problems. We know this from other disaster experiences.

Walter Maestri

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

Robin Gurwitch

Mental health that's disaster-related is very different from traditional mental-health services.

Warren Rudman

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

Mantill Williams

One little natural disaster, a refinery fire, any type of instability in various parts of the world could push us over that edge.

Rajeev Dhawan

New Orleans is an economic disaster. This tragedy is so unprecedented people could be out of work for three, six, nine months or longer.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Rig Veda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Jay Nixon

I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.

Saddam Hussein

found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.

Shelby Steele

From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.

Bill Edwards

If all we did was say we'll raise the grading scale that would've been a silly thing to do, but in conjunction with other efforts to help them be successful, this is a wise move on our part.

Neena Moorjani

Ontario's announcement complicates our efforts to reach a long-term negotiated solution to the softwood lumber dispute.

Doug Stoffel

Because of the efforts the players needed a little kick in the pants after the match. Hopefully it woke them up a bit.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

George Crumb

Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.

Maribeth Lartz

We have sign language practices and sign language groups before each of our meetings.

Ahmet Ertegun

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

John Oates

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

C. Everett Koop

That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Nelson Mandela

Tomorrow the two groups will meet on the ship,

Pat Metheny

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Jaime Dacey

My initial thought was that I was going to try out for the team.

David Healy

My initial reaction was, 'What took them so long?' ... They had too many brands, too many fiefdoms, and they had to simplify it. Even after they phase out Oldsmobile, they'll have too many, but I don't see them making another move for the foreseeable future.

Harvey Levin

My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested. I thought, I'm going to do more television. Why would I do Internet?

Harvey Levin

My initial reaction was, I couldn't be less interested,

Martin Winterkorn

One million units by 2008 is just an initial aim.

Christine Crocker

On the initial accreditation it was a matter of whether we?re talking the talk. Now, it?s can we walk the walk?

Christine Crocker

On the initial accreditation, it was a matter of whether talking the talk. Now its can we walk the walk,

Vince Carter

I wouldn't mind it. Initially it would be like.

Robert Wilson

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Akifumi Uchida

Many market players already think the ECB will raise interest rates in March and then several more times later this year.

Doug Booth

Many times I go to professional venues and it's just the pros playing with very little involvement or interest by the community. I didn't see this here.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Kenji Johjima

Seattle had interest in me first. Out of respect for them, I wanted to sign here.

Kathleen Harrington

so it's in the interest of our success to do this and to label everything appropriately.

Andre Heerden

Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Dave Parker

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

H. Hart

because of war and other considerations, that may slip another month or so to April.

Nelva Ancona

I feel the sadness of this family. She is two months pregnant and she has two kids.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Latin Proverb

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

Jan Pronk

The parties sometimes are talking, and a day after, they're shooting.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Lou Mazzucchelli

There could be all sorts of other stuff, too.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Craig Benson

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

Jack Morgan

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

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Ambrose Bierce

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Alexandra Adornetto

Don't worry, Beth; there's nothing I love more than a challenge.

Randy Edsall

We won't have to worry about that this week.

Stan Heath

We won?t have to worry about presses any more.

Dennis Prager

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Eleanor Clift

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Edward Abbey

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Deepak Chopra

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

Dominic Cooper

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.