Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Pryor

reaping substantial profits from (the recordings) without ever having acquired any rights in such recordings.

LaJuana Wilcher

Paris Charles has truly been an asset to this administration, bringing vast knowledge acquired through 28 years in the mining industry and a sincere personal commitment to mine safety.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

Peace can only be acquired through economic development to eliminate poverty and despair and through dialogue and understanding

Yang Yuanqing

Our mobile handset unit delivered strong and profitable growth, and, more importantly, the acquired PC business was profitable worldwide,

E. B. White

Oracle is an applications company and it only makes sense that they will want to eventually move acquired customers over to their technology stack,

Yang Yuanqing

Our results validate the expectations we have when we acquired the business and reinforced our convictions that we have a model for ongoing profitability,

Pat Riley

I think they've turned the corner. They've acquired a tremendous amount of talent.

Danny Maciocia

Kwame has been a first-class individual since we acquired him and this is just my way of trying to accommodate him, because I think he deserves to play.

Jim Scarborough

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

J. Horton

Regardless of what you all were told, when you basically tell somebody with six games left that they?re not going to be here next year, I think it?s pretty tough to finish the year out.

Donnie Wilson

Our rent has gone from $1,000 a month to $2,500. That's basically our whole budget.

Herb Sendek

Our rebounding was basically non-existent tonight, and I'm very disappointed in the way we played. Noel had it going and their entire team really played well, but we certainly helped their cause.

Craig Venter

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Johannes Ullrich

Particularly over the last year, anti-virus (programs) have lost a lot of their effectiveness. They are basically no longer capable of keeping up with the proliferation of new viruses.

Gary Meyer

Partway through the process, we threw up a flare and said, 'We think we've made a mistake. We think we should design for 400 watts per square foot.' And we were basically laughed out of the room,

Ken Holland

Pavel and Hank are two young players who are very, very important to our franchise. In Hank's case, he's really coming into the prime of his career. I'm happy he made a long-term commitment; basically we bought ourselves one year of unrestricted free agency.

Ken Ford

Orange had one of the better programs in the state. One thing I remember was how he had an offensive and defensive system that basically was the same every year. The kids knew what to do. It was like playing a machine.

Cheryl Brom

People have been basically staying away from them. The citizens need to keep up the good work of letting the professionals handle it pesticide companies and us.

Ifzal Ali

I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity.

Adil Shamoo

I think the National Institutes of Health should take responsibility for conducting this type of clinical trial, where controversy and potential harm to the population are at stake.

Dr. Irwin

There is no clinical evidence that overthe-counter cough expectorants or suppressants actually relieve cough. There is considerable evidence that older type antihistamines help to reduce cough, so, unless there are contraindications to using these medicines, why not take something that has been proven to work?

Gary Neville

We need to become more ruthless and clinical in front of goal.

Deborah Muoio

There are two important observations that might have clinical relevance.

Maria Cheng

She had similar symptoms and the clinical course of her illness was the same. So it would be very probable that she died of H5N1, but right now we don't have the laboratory test to prove that.

Andrew Lansley

Many clinical priorities aren't recorded and some targets, like A&E and GP bookings, create more problems than they solve.

Bryan Whitman

The policy of the department is unchanged, and it is to support the preservation of life by appropriate clinical means and to do that in a humane manner.

Tom Brokaw

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

Jeff Immelt

Reinsurance is an industry that has had a difficult time over the past few years, and we're disappointed in our results, ... We are committed to running ERC effectively for our investors. This includes profitability and exploring strategic options.

Dr. Gerberding

Part of the reason why we hoped to have full appropriation committed ... was to warrant to the manufacturers that we are serious.

William Higgins

passionately committed to the success of the exchange.

David Young

passionate and committed to theater and concerned by the lack of public performance found in Taipei.

Ra'anan Gissin

Our only concern, and the concern of those committed to the peace process and the road map, is the performance of this government with regard to the implementation of the security requirements of the road map, which include dismantling of terror organizations and the stopping of incitement as well as completing comprehensive democratic reforms.

Jeff Davidson

Our ministry is committed to the principle that there are no disabled souls in the kingdom of God,

Z. Sheppard

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

Kathleen Kennedy

Steven is extremely committed to DreamWorks, ... He doesn't want it to go away.

Josh Tarrell

Some of these girls don't play a lot (during varsity games). It takes a strong, committed player to a team to do that. They're as important to the team as anybody, especially in practice. Without them, we're not as good as we can be.

David Trimble

Recovery would be very simple -- let the prime minister put the information he has in the public domain,

Chris Berman

Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.

Ron Nichols

We need (the community's help), ... We need all the information we can get.

Taizo Nishimuro

We need more updated information and better disclosure.

Pete Erlenbach

We never provided them with information that said they were being annexed.

Alfred Delucchi

Just for your information, we went through 17 witnesses this week, ... So, it wasn't a total loss.

John Miller

That's the kind of information that has to be passed on to the locality because they have the most important vote in determining what kind of protective measures to take.

Schoolboy Q

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

Emily Johnson

Lately, at least once a week, an organization is contacting me to try to get information about the program and get brochures,

Al Franken

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

Mayor Lederer

Never in my lifetime have I seen this much activity.

Brian Lumley

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Donna Nelson

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

Claude Monet

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.

Philippe Petit

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Fred Hoiberg

I scared her enough for one lifetime when I passed out. I still think about how scary that was for her. I would never want to put her in a position where I would scare her like that again.

Bill Vaughan

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

Stephen Urban

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I'm awaiting the results, Urban said.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Jim Anderson

There's really not much that's technical to it,

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Melissa Wilson

It's been a very technical evacuation for the people.