Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Simons

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

George Bodenheimer

We've acquired wide-ranging rights to fuel all of the multimedia business of ESPN that today number over a dozen and will continue to grow.

Sean Payton

We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or not it's finished there, it's probably too early to say. Some of these guys we've been able to sign we're getting a good look at now and some have more experience than others.

Doug Hall

We are pleased to acquire the skill player like McCabe, who will complement the playmaking abilities but stone hands of Wayne Davis.

Carolyn Porco

We acquired this spectacular, one-of-a-kind set of images immediately after getting into orbit for the express purpose of seeing fine details in the rings that we had not seen previously.

Shaun Connolly

We acquired the rights to the technology and some key folks.

David Wood

We acquired nine properties in the neighborhood, demolished eight of them and built three new buildings in their place.

Bible Bible

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Maajid Nawaz

The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.

Herbert A. Simon

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Kristin Hasson

We want to provide something that will make people think, which is the point of theater - to broaden people's minds.

Peter Moores

We have to get credit cards out of the way. We've got to broaden this to younger demographics.

Steve Jobs

Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal downloads. Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings.

Ethan Zuckerman

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Pierre Voges

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

Yang Yuanqing

The decline in profit margin reflects an increase of market competition, and shows that we haven't optimized our cost and expense structure. We need to broaden our product portfolio and increase our market coverage.

David Harsanyi

Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

Paul Goggins

We are proposing to strengthen the criminal law in respect of possession of a limited category of extreme material featuring adults. The intention is to reduce the demand for such material and to send a clear message that it has no place in our society.

Candace Corlett

We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996,

Lili Simmons

I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.

S. Walker

What's missing is an enormously hot category to pull the whole industry ahead.

Gary Spear

Vehicle burglary clearly was the category driving the overall property crime increase.

Ben Nelson

The fact that it could enter the Gulf as a Category 4 is not good news for Florida because, when it was forecast to be a Category 3, the thinking was it would weaken to a Category 2. Now we may have a Category 3, or worse, at landfall. But we have to remember this is the intensity forecast, and it has a lot of uncertainty.

Nathan Wolfe

We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

Bobby Lee

This storm wasn't spectacular like Andrew. But a lot of people lost everything they owned and to them, it doesn't matter if it was a Category 1 or 5, they still lost everything.

Larry Dixon

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

Kevin McCloud

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

F. Sionil Jose

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

Billy Joel

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Bob Miller

There are five good reasons why men who can sing should come to this event, ... Sing your heart out, sharpen your singing skills, establish lasting friendships, enrich lives and have some fun.

Christopher Hitchens

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Bill Green

Just since the gas prices started to go up, they've enriched the state coffers by about $16 million just from the increase,

Henry Miller

He lives to express himself, and in so doing, enriches the world.

David Shuster

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

Bernard Levin

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

Bill Richardson

We're going to talk about positive issues. We're not going to be bashing the president at every turn, ... Fox News Sunday.

Gay McNutt

We're just going to leave Jennifer Fox alone. Whatever she's doing, we're just going to leave her alone.

Frank Caliendo

Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited.

Shepard Smith

When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.

Herb Stratford

We'd like to make the Fox a part of kids' lives again.

Mike Black

My first role was a tree at the Fox Theatre in Aurora in the Wizard of Oz .

Howie Mandel

We did it for nine years, No. 1, and the Fox Children's Network moved it into a different direction, of the Power Rangers and other stuff.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Charles Lee

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Todd Park

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

Ludwig von Mises

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

Henry McKinnell

This is an important victory not only for Pfizer but for all innovators pursuing high-risk medical discoveries.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Lauren Miller

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Jim McKelvey

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Bob Goodenow

I feel very strongly that we've done our share. Frankly, we're still waiting for our partner to step up.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Mulally

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Parker

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.