Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Henning Kagermann

We want to take on more people again in 2006.

Sarah Lowe

We knew they were talented. We didn't come out with the focus and composure we needed against a team like that.

David McClure

We knew they were good three-point shooters and we knew they were real good running their set plays against man (defense). We wanted to try and see how they would do against a zone and it worked for us tonight." ()

Phil Murphy

We knew they were fast and we still panicked. We would have liked a little more time, but you don't get that against a team like that.

Jeff Mittie

We knew they hadn't been going to their bench as much, but all their players are dangerous. They obviously had a lot of reserves step up against us. Their depth makes them a much tougher team.

John Pearson

We knew they'd press. We didn't handle the ball as well as we wanted and dug ourselves a huge hole. Against Hilton Head Prep, you can't pull yourself back from that far. I thought we put ourselves in position to win.

Paul Lundberg

We knew they could shoot. We'd seen them down by 17 against North Attleboro and cut it to a point.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Chris Chan

We're making money on the freighters at the moment, but not a dramatic return.

Ross Levinsohn

We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.

John Ovink

We were hoping to get a dramatic demonstration.

Dan Ahrens

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,

Attorney Crank

With the large increase in workers in the extractive industries in our state, we've seen a dramatic increase in drug activity.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Chellie Pingree

With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Robert Peck

We think eBay may have revised its processes enough to minimize its liability. However, at minimum, eBay would be liable for the original $25 million.

Derek Brown

It gives eBay a new resource to leverage in search marketing efforts.

Jon Brorson

Today, it can be summed up with GM, eBay and metals and mining stocks. It's all related to earnings, and it's a mixed bag.

Pierre Omidyar

People naturally gravitate towards eBay because it's the largest marketplace. We're the original. We've been around the longest and so far, we've been able to hold our own.

Catherine England

It is important to recognize that sales on eBay are different from traditional auctions.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Darrell Nichols

We know for a fact that several of the people staying at the motel were habitual burglars.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Shelden Williams

We knew they were a team that wasn't going to go away. They saw that scoreboard and saw they were only down a few points.

Sara Parson

Very few of my opponents underestimate me. It doesn't matter if I can see them if they're on their back.

Tod Ruhstaller

Very few miners got rich. It was the businessmen who made the money.

Ross Levinsohn

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Adam Mansbach

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

David Denby

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

Artur Schnabel

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Bob Young

Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people.

Bill Gates

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Brian Wilson

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Bruce Hyde

We need to make it a more functional area.

Gary Weiss

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

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.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

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.

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.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Madeleine Albright

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Bill Gates

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

Bill Gates

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Chaske Spencer

I stay off the Internet.

Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

Phil Singer

We're in a very strong position right now. We're poised to make gains.

Dennis Jett

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Brandon Stockton

He wasn't mad. He just told us to stay poised and have fun.

Don Patterson

I think Marco is poised to have a big season.

Bill Cowher

He's a very poised quarterback and he has a feel for the game,

Ernie Accorsi

I don't have to talk to Eli. If he were another type of personality, it would be different. But he's as poised a quarterback as you could want, and he handles every situation in an unflappable manner.

Richard Sichel

They are really poised to put everything together.

Joe Torre

He's very intelligent, not pretty intelligent. So I think he was poised to make a decision.

Ted Sarandos

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Scott Sprinzen

We haven't factored anything into the rating (but) it's worth monitoring closely. It's a big unknown.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Alberto Fujimori

I have a support rating of 30% in Peru, ... I shall return.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Anton Yelchin

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Bill Richardson

How can you say that there are over 60 sites that can't be inspected?

Joe Sacco

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.