Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Baker

Reed Elsevier is an oil tanker that is surging ahead in the same direction that it has been going in for the past few years. It leaves the share price lacking any great dynamics to trade into.

Karla Lopez

Recently I went to a wellness meeting and was happy to see that our district is way ahead of the game when it comes to having a wellness policy in place. Even so, we have more to do.

Mark Heiderscheid

Really when you look late in games, people are going to be a bit more tired in the back and liable to make more mistakes. We don't want to give up an opportunity where a team can go ahead and knock something forward.

Harry Reid

Reid snapped, answering a reporter's question. The failure to move ahead with the Iraq investigation, he said, is ''a slap in the face to the American people.

Andre Payne

Our point guard Czyz Bennett just took it up on himself and made great decisions. We needed that. As long as we win, somebody's going to lose and we'll get ahead of somebody.

Haruhiko Kuroda

Our regions accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,

David Peters

Our real goal is to get ahead of the game before the suits are filed. One of the reasons the crisis has occurred is because the business community has its head in the sand.

Maurice Carroll

Our numbers show that Bush is ahead but there is still room for funny things to happen. It's not in the bag, partly because the numbers have been so volatile.

John King

Our offense is probably ahead of our defense, right now. Not having starters back is deceptive, because a lot of them played as backups. A couple of them even got experience in the playoffs.

Kevin McCabe

Regardless of the operator, the Department of Homeland Security controls all security operations in the seaport. That's our job.

Mike Shaver

Organizations will be able to set up their own update system that uses the same client-side piece, so they can control what gets updated and when. And we are scaling our own infrastructure to deal with our growing user base.

Paul Murphy

Organizations ultimately exist as information and control processing tools, and outsourcing IT therefore diminishes overall organizational value.

Tom Shepard

Organizationally, it equates parks maintenance with traffic control and sewer maintenance,

Jim Baron

Parfait played solid, he played under control and very poised.

Bill Owens

Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I think are overall going to do better regardless of whether that comes from traditional treatments or a combination of western medicine plus other alternative approaches,

Josh Towers

(Pat) Hentgen used to tell me: 'You can't control wins and losses, you can control what you do'. That's why I think for a lot of veteran guys they understand how important it is to throw a lot of innings, to get 200-plus innings,

Tom Kelley

Pat Bledsoe wrestled well. He wrestled a pretty controlled match. Four or five different times, he was in on a single leg, and we covered each time.

Brian Billick

Passion, emotion and intensity are good, but they've always got to be under control.

Glen Hanlon

Our next step of improvement is to play a 20-game stretch where we go .500. If you play .500 for 20 games, that's a pretty good cross-section of the schedule. We haven't spent a lot of time focusing on those things. We've tried to get better and improve and work on our systems. Winning will be a byproduct of that.

Carlton Hill

That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better. The key was when I left receiver and started focusing mainly at quarterback. I started picking things up real well.

Mark Kelleher

I think that's the No. 1 issue that people are focusing on.

Hanna Salonen

I went (back) to Finland, and stayed there and the only thing I was focusing on was how I wanted to come back.

Adam Gilchrist

I think people questioned whether we were even interested in trying to win this, you know, maybe focusing too much on the World Cup.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm starting to get into a rhythm a little more. I'm focusing more.

Preston Early

(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.

Vince Young

I didn't want that to happen, ... I started focusing in more on sports.

Jeff Suppan

I don't feel like I'm laboring, ... I'm just concentrating on that one pitch and letting things happen. I'm trying to use the defense. I haven't really thought about (start to start). I'm just focusing on the now.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Yuri Andropov

peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.

Rick Daniels

We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start being active and make ourselves stand out.

John Brady

We never really got ourselves into a rhythm on offense. It seemed like to me we were always struggling offensively to get something accomplished.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Dennis Golden

That was frustrating, but there's nothing we can do about that. We just had to pick ourselves up and go right back at them.

Stephen Colbert

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Kate Beckinsale

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

Charles Pierce

I would say we have probably transformed ourselves from a small to a medium-sized institution.

Justin Doellman

Basically, it's our defense. In the past two games, we weren't ourselves out there.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

David McCord

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Walter Jamieson

We used to say that the motivations for tourists were sea, sun and sand ... the three new S's are safety, security and sanitation.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Brad Sherman

In a big murder trial, the sandwich is important.

Chris O'Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!